Calling all developers, innovators, researchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs!

23.03.2023 Press and information team of the Delegation to MONTENEGRO

€ 1 ,755, 000 will be distributed among (up to) 15 selected projects!

Trustworthy digital identities and data are the focus of this TRUSTCHAIN Open Call 1 (OC1) on “Decentralised Digital Identity”. This Open Call 1 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 decentralized reputation systems. o
Smart oracles assessing the trustworthiness of data associated with digital identities.
Inclusive digital identity platforms focusing on marginalized 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 decentralized identifiers.
Decentralized identity systems supporting Decentralized 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.

Applicants are invited to submit their proposals on any topic that serves the overall TRUSTCHAIN OC1 vision and objectives. Their proposed solution should consider as minimal requirement to:

Use standard technology for full stack development;
Be open source;
Extends the state-of-the-art in the domain of digital identities, and/or solves existing real-world problems with digital identities and provides new highly usable software solutions.

Proposals are submitted in a single stage and the evaluation process is composed of three phases as presented hereafter:

Phase 1: Admissibility & eligibility check
Phase 2: Proposals evaluation carried out by the TRUSTCHAIN Consortium with the assistance of independent experts.
Phase 3: Online interviews (10 minutes pitching & 20 minutes of Q&As) and final selection carried out by the TRUSTCHAIN Consortium and the TRUSTCHAIN Advisory Board Members.

As part of the TRUSTCHAIN action, experts in diverse fields will also provide to Third-party innovators selected technology development guidance, working methodology as well as access to technical infrastructure, training in business model development and data-related topics, coaching, mentoring, visibility and community building support.

Selected projects will last for a duration of 9 months. TRUSTCHAIN overall action lasts 36 months, so the selected participants are requested to join at any of the future Joint Meetings even after these 9 months. The goal of this extended participation is knowledge and know-how transfer to TRUSTCHAIN OC2-5 and for the development of the TRUSTCHAIN ecosystem as a whole.