GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Under this Call, applicants are expected to develop interoperable and sustainable digital identity management applications that are transparent and address the needs of the future decentralised internet.

This Call welcomes applications that will clearly define, upgrade/extend the state-of-the-art, and develop the following types of solutions:  

• Decentralised user-centric identity management framework for supporting an automated privacy preserving, legal and regulatory compliant infrastructure (e.g., GDPR) potentially in alignment with emerging European regulations and standards (i.e. eIDAS);

• Protocols for trustworthiness assessment of entities by means of verifiable credentials and decentralised reputation systems;   
• Smart oracles assessing the trustworthiness of data associated with digital identities;
• Inclusive digital identity platforms focusing on marginalised communities (e.g., refugees, elderly, vulnerable);
• Social identity for delegation and recovery that drives community-based trust establishment (i.e., social guardians);
• Systems considering both public and private administration roles in issuing and managing decentralised identifiers;
• Decentralised identity systems supporting Decentralised Authority Organizations (DAOs);

• Use-case driven identity management system deployment (e.g., banking, publishing, healthcare, education etc).

The above system examples are only indicative, and applicants can propose solutions that integrate one or more of them. Applicants can also submit a proposal under a different example scenario, as long as it serves the overall TRUSTCHAIN vision and objectives and fits within the scope of human centric decentralised trustworthy digital identity. It should utilize existing concepts and technologies already developed for SSI and fit within TRUSTCHAIN’s vision and objectives.

Proposals should cover real needs of the end-users in one of the sectors such as for example banking, education, healthcare or e-democracy.