About the Project
The Digital Credentials For Europe (DC4EU) Project was approved for funding by the European Commission (EC), under the Call Digital-2022-Deploy-02. The estimated project cost was €19.2 million. The project commenced in April 2023 for a period of 28 months and was directed by iterative releases of the digital reference portfolio in large-scale piloting. The project consortium was led by the Government of Spain, through the General Secretariat for Digital Administration (SGAD) of its Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
Launched under the Digital Europe Programme, DC4EU was set out to pilot the implementation of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) through real-life use cases in two essential sectors: education and social security. With a focus on cross-border interoperability, the project brought together a broad coalition of public authorities, universities, private stakeholders, and eID experts from across Europe.
In the education domain, DC4EU explored how the EUDI Wallet could be used to issue and verify digital diplomas and professional qualifications across borders. Building on frameworks such as EBSI and eduGAIN, the project developed demonstrators showing how students and institutions could seamlessly share and validate credentials throughout the EU.
In the social security domain, the project focused on enabling portable digital entitlements such as the PDA1 and the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) that EU citizens could carry in their EUDI Wallet when moving or working abroad. This supports the EU's goals for better mobility, inclusion, and access to services.
Among its outcomes, DC4EU produced a wide range of technical pilots, policy recommendations, and publications. Notably, the project:
- Delivered demonstrators and implementation blueprints for both domains.
- Completed scientific papers on digital identity in social security, on trust and the EUDI Wallet ecosystem, on legal trust and interoperability and on designing European interoperable digital credentials in the education sector.
DC4EU also played an active role in stakeholder engagement, presenting its progress at major events such as the EUNIS Congress, the Global Digital Collaboration Conference, and its Final Conference in Madrid on July 9th, which brought together more than 150 participants.
DC4EU will continue to maintain its visibility after the project concludes through the central EUDI Wallet channels. A dedicated webpage titled "Deliverables & Success Stories" will be available on the official EUDI Wallet website. To stay connected beyond the pilot, follow the updates on the EUDIW website
ECCA Role in Project:
ECCA led Work Package 9 - Communications & Dissemination.
The purpose of this work package was to ensure the project had visibility, create a community of practice and disseminate the findings and leveraging on the extensive networks available to the consortium team members. The KPIs and metrics agreed facilitated prominent visibility, awareness and exploitation of the project to realize the greatest potential impact from the project.
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