EBSI Demo Day

31 May 2022

DISCLAIMER
This Demo Day will be recorded. The recording will be made available on EBSI’ website and social media.
Welcome and meet our speakers !
Welcome to the first publicly open EBSI Demo Day !

Host EC Senior Management EBP Co-chair European Commission

Maxine Veronica Natalia Perrine Pierre João Saky

LEMM GAFFEY ARISTIMUNO de COETLOGON MARRO FRADE KOURTIDIS
Project Manager, Director General PEREZ EBP Co-Chair Policy Officer, Head of Sector, EBSI SMO
DG DIGIT of DG DIGIT DG CNECT DG DIGIT
Director
DG DIGIT D

EBP / EBSI Conveners Member States that will demo today

Daniel Lluís José-Manuel

DU SEUIL ALFONS PANIZO
Convener Convener Convener
Welcome and meet our panellists !
Presentation of our today’s panellists

Moderator Panellists

Maxine Andrea Koen Katrien Sebastiano Marc

LEMM SERVIDA NOMDEN VANELVEN TOFFALETTI TARVERNER
Project Manager, Head of Unit Team Leader Policy Advisor, Secretary General Executive Director,
DG DIGIT “Knowledge Transparency International at European INATBA
Management & and Office, KU Leuven DIGITAL SME
Innovative Recognition of Alliance
Systems” at DG Skills and
CONNECT Qualifications,
at DG EMPL
Guidelines
Some ground rules for making sure this is a smooth day.
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two purposes:
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your questions.
Opening remarks
09:10 – 09:25

About EBSI
09:25 – 10:30

The MU Pilot – Demos (incl. lunch break)

10:45 – 15:30
12:30 - Lunch Break
15:30 - Coffee Break

Looking ahead
15:45 – 17:00
Opening remarks
Blockchain and the Digital Decade Veronica Natalia
GAFFEY ARISTIMUNO PEREZ
Director General Director
of DG DIGIT DG DIGIT D

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Blockchain is one of the Multi-Country
Projects that will pave the way to
Europe’s Digital Decade

Multi Country Projects

Pan-European
2030
Common Data Low power
infrastructure & deployment of
processors
services 5G corridors

DIGITAL High Secure quantum High-tech

COMPASS Performance
Computing
infrastructure &
cybersecurity
Digital public
administration
Digital
Innovation hubs
partnerships for
digital skills

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 Decentralisation is the next evolution of the world wide web
Decentralisation is the next evolution of the world wide web and with it, decentralisation of trust, and the
emergence of portable digital credentials

Decentralisation and the
portable digital credentials is
a new paradigm shift
Decentralisation is the next evolution of the world
wide web – and with it, decentralisation of trust,
and the emergence of portable digital
credentials. Both public and private initiatives at
EU and international levels are emerging to
leverage on the opportunities given by this new
paradigm.
EBSI has a part to play in
answering the
decentralisation challenge
EBSI positions the European Blockchain
Partnership and the European Commission play
as major players in providing a scalable,
standards-based approach to the
decentralization challenge.
EBSI is here to stay via
Europe's Digital Decade,
multi-country projects
The EU will pursue a human-centric, sustainable
vision for digital society throughout the digital
decade. Multi-country projects are large-scale
projects that can contribute to achieving the digital
decade targets. The Commission has identified an
initial list of 10 areas of investment for multi-
country projects. EBSI is one of them.

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EBSI’s piloting of diplomas, as a Verifiable Credential, shows
that EBSI’s collaborative model works

Piloting with the Early Working together with

Adopters Programme other EU Initiatives
EBSI has launched an Early Adopter Programme EBSI is working together with
and the MU pilot: 22 projects (2 European DG EMPL, DG EAC and other Institutions e.g.
universities alliances, 18 universities from 15 reusing the Europass data format for educational
countries) are working on a first credentials, social security credentials, etc.
implementation of EBSI in pre-production.

Together with all 29 countries that make up the European

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Who is here today?

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 About EBSI
European Commission & European Blockchain Partnership

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What are The EBP and the EBSI
09:25 – 09:40

we going
to cover in The EBSI Use Cases and capabilities
09:40 – 10:00

Part 01?
A new way of sharing information
10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:45
The EBP and EBSI Pierre
The European Blockchain Partnership and the European MARRO
Blockchain Services Infrastructure. Policy Officer,
DG CNECT

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The European Blockchain
Partnership works together with
the European Commission

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Our joint vision is to help Europe
accelerate the creation of trustworthy SW
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cross border digital services using LV

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blockchain. DK
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IE NL PL
DE
BE CZ
EBSI is the first EU-wide blockchain infrastructure, driven HU

by the public sector, in full respect of European values

Countries
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andSK the EC
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and regulations. EBSI is supported by 29 countries (All
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EU Member States, Norway and Lichtenstein) and the EC
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forming the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP). ES
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Blockchain for public services and public policy: why?
A blockchain-based infrastructure offers a number of advantages (decentralized model)

Future-proof Trust and Improved User centric Enhanced

solutions for efficiency gains in identification approach where security and
public services multiparty and processes, users remain in privacy with no
for web 3.0 and traceability processes issuance of control of the data single point of
evolution of the certificates and they share failure or gateway
digital economy official documents

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EBSI, the first EU-wide blockchain infrastructure
EBSI will be the first EU-wide blockchain infrastructure, driven by the public sector, in full respect of European
values and rules

Cross-border trust Sustainable Compliance Enabler Open

Enhances Cross Border Sustainable by design. Complies with Reinforces Based on open
services provided by Supports Use Cases that GDPR, eIDAS, NIS Blockchain standards, market
Governments to citizens enhances environmental Directive capacities In Europe friendly and multi-vendor
and Green Deal Policies

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EBSI’s use cases
EBP and the EC develop and deploy EBSI with a network of distributed nodes across Europe for supporting
applications for selected use-cases, such as:
TRACK AND TRACE
Ensuring the integrity and tracing the
evolution of data or documents;
monitoring of products in the supply
chain through their digital passport
TRUSTED DATA EXCHANGE
Enhancing the implementation EU policy
and compliance procedures between
administrations e.g. for asylum demand
management or exchange of VAT number
for import products
VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS
This is done notably
Giving control back to citizens when managing through the establishment
their credentials, such as diplomas or posting
certificates for mobile workers linked to their
of electronic ledgers as
digital identity, significantly reducing verification new qualified trust
costs and improving authenticity trust services, as proposed in
the EU digital identity
regulation
EBSI is going to
IP MANAGEMENT implement the EU digital
identity regulation and the
Facilitating right holders checking and EU digital wallet
management of intellectual property
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 What is EBSI today?
EBSI is user centric, decentralised and reusable in multiple contexts and use cases. It is based on open
standards to stimulate interoperability and the creation of cross-border public services

TAO Issuer Holder Verifier TAO Issuer Holder Verifier TAO Issuer Holder Verifier TAO Issuer Holder Verifier TAO Issuer Holder Verifier TAO Issuer Holder Verifier
Actors

Gov. Entity Citizen Gov. Entity University Student Company Gov. Entity SS Institution Worker Inspector Gov. Entity Gov. Entity Citizen Gov. Entity Gov. Entity Citizen
Gov. Entity Gov. Entity Gov. Entity Gov. Entity Citizen Gov. Entity Gov. Entity Gov. Entity
UCs

ESSIF Education Social Security Document traceability Trusted data sharing SME financing

EBSI Conformant wallet

EBSI Verifiable Credentials Profile (based on W3C standards)

EBSI Ledger and APIs

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EBSI’s State of play – the node network
EBSI’s pan-European network of nodes
45 nodes in 23 countries
Nodes per country:
Austria (1) Lithuania (1)
Belgium (2) Luxembourg (2)
Bulgaria (2) Netherlands (4)
Croatia (1) Norway (1)
Cyprus (1) Poland (1)
Czechia (2) Romania (3)
Estonia (1) Slovakia (2)
Finland (1) Slovenia (1)
France (2) Spain (2)
Germany (3) Sweden (1)
Greece (2)
Hungary (3)
Italy (2)

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EBSI’s State of play and roadmap
Overview on the work that has been done so far

2019 2020-2021 Q2 2022 Q3 2022 2023 and

beyond

The European
Blockchain Partnership
Development of the
network
Ready to use EBSI
infrastructure &
EBSI goes Multiple environments (for
testing, pre-production and
(EBP) starts working infrastructure and preparing operations live ! production)
together with the EC the use cases
on EBSI. New capabilities will be
Launch Early Adopter Terms and conditions, Continued stakeholder engagement
deployed to enhance and
Programme and operational books and SLAs
reinforce the infrastructure and
engagement with finalised, Assessment for implement new use cases
stakeholders GDPR compliance
New EDIC governance (tbc)

Blockchain PCP solutions

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The EBSI Use Cases
The EBSI Use Case Lifecycle, the Use Cases Daniel
DU SEUIL
and the capabilities Convener

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EBSI’s use case will support cross-border services across
multiple domains, selected by the EBP

TRACK AND TRACE VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS

SMEs Document
Self-sovereign Social Diploma
Financing Traceability
Identity Security

Coming soon…

Asylum Process Trusted

Management Data Sharing

TRUSTED DATA EXCHANGE IP MANAGEMENT

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How does the EBSI Use Case Lifecycle work?
The Use Cases are developed following the lifecycle explained below.

Select UC Develop UC Pilot UC Adopt UC

Potential use cases are
suggested by the EBP
countries who then select
the most promising ones
that will go to the next
stage. Convenors are
appointed to lead each Use
Cases.
The Convenors will gather
the requirements and
shape the specifications of
the Use Cases together
with a team of experts
based on MSs input. The
specifications will then be
developed and
implemented by the EBSI
technical team.
The first implementation Once the specifications
will be tested and piloted and the implementation
by EBP’s projects have reached a certain
participating in the Early level of stability, they
Adopters Programme. are deployed into
Feedback received by the production on the EBSI
Early Adopters is then network and the Use
integrated by the EBSI Case can grow.
technical team.
Today, EBSI is quite advanced regarding the
Verifiable Credentials. Let’s have a look.
EBSI’s Self-Sovereign
Identity model

The Self-Sovereign Identity Use Case will

demonstrate that EBSI can implement cross-
border verification of identity credentials based
on the Verifiable Credential lifecycle

This means that a verifiable ID issued by

Country A can be verified by any entity from a
from Country B.

The value proposition is the simplicity and

reliability of the cross-border verification
process.

It underpins all Verifiable Credentials exchanges

in EBSI.
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EBSI’s Diploma
Use Case

The Diploma Use Case will demonstrate that

EBSI can implement cross-border verification of
educational credentials based on the Verifiable
Credential lifecycle

This means that a verifiable attestation (such

as a diploma) issued by Country A can be
verified by an university or third party, e.g.
“employer” from Country B.

The value proposition is the simplicity and

reliability of the cross-border verification
process.

This can be extended to Lifelong learning

certificate and other educational credentials.
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EBSI’s Social Security
Use Case

The European Social Security Pass Use Case will

demonstrate that EBSI can implement cross-border
verification of social security coverage of posted
workers, i.e. verification of the PDA-1 document.

This means that a Social Security competent

institution in an EBP country issues the PDA-1
document as a verifiable attestation and an inspector
in another EBP country verifies it.

The value proposition is the simplicity and reliability

of the cross-border verification process.

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What does this look like in practice?
The Diploma example
Understanding the roles
Distribution of roles per Country

Country A Country B
Mobile

Trusted Accreditation Issuer Holder Verifier

Organisation (TAO)
Gov. Entity University A Student University B Company

Registers issuers of Issues educational Configures the wallet, Verifies the educational
educational credentials in the credential upon the requests the issuance of credentials shared by the
Trusted Register of request of the student educational credentials student
Universities and share it with
university / employer

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 Scenario illustrating the UC capabilities in practice
What is the scenario in practice and what are the capabilities offered to the different actors?

Country A Country B

TAO Issuer Holder Verifier

C
E
D
Gov. Entity University A
Student University B Company

A Digital wallet
A Onboard on EBSI = DID + Keys

B Registration in Trusted Registries

C Request educational credential

B
EBSI
F

D Issue educational credential

E Present educational credential EBSI

Services
F Check attributes of educational credential EBSI Trusted
Registries
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A new way of sharing
information João
FRADE
Head of Sector,
DG DIGIT

30’

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We live in the most technology advanced societies that ever existed, however…

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Verification of documents and information remains challenging.
This is why we need to invest in technology that can help us to easily verify documents and information

17 billion 17 million 30 million 20% ?

Money laundering
through falsification
110 billion euros are said to be
laundered in the European
Union through the forging of
documents
Illegal products and
counterfeits
According to a report by the
European Commission, last
year, customs seized 17 million
items (e.g. counterfeits) at the
borders of Europe for a total
value of 740 million euros.
Stolen / lost
documents
In the last years, Interpol has
seen a sharp uptick in
the number of missing
passports — within Europe and
around the globe. In Europe the
amount reached 30 million in
2015 and +60 million in the
world. The latest would be
estimated to 89 million in
2020 (Interpol).
Fake labels on food
and beverage
One in five labels in Europe
would be false and therefore
show a lack of compliance with
European rules
Fake COVID-
19 tests
As long as travel restrictions
remain in place due to the
pandemic. it is very likely that
criminals will seize the
opportunity of producing and
selling fake COVID-19 test
certificates. Several cases have
already emerged of fraudulent
COVID-19 test certificates
being sold to travelers (Europol)

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Documents are easy
to fake and difficult to
verify.

The creation of
national registers was
a major advancement
to distinguish fake
from real information.

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Authentic data sources are now digital and online
But real-time access is often not possible, this is done by intermediaries

Verification by accessing the authentic sources of information is often intermediated (i.e. an entity on behalf of another entity)

Population Register

Internet + Secure Data

Exchange protocol

Citizen Gov Entitites

Verifier Vehicles Register
Holder / Requester Issuer

Business Register
Direct verification/ self-sovereign scenario.
A new pattern for sharing information

Issuer Holder Verifier

Issuance of Presentation of

Information Information

Storage in

Digital wallet

EBSI Ledger

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 Challenges associated to the self-sovereign scenario.
Technology can help

We aim at significantly easing the verification of information in a Citizen to Business (C2B) and
Citizen to Government (C2G) context. VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS are an essential but not sufficient
element to achieve this objective . There are two other challenges:

Issuer Holder Verifier

• Business or
Verifiable Credentials must be Verifiable Credentials must be • Government
supplemented by a Trust Model supplemented by a trusted (Digital)
for Issuers Identity of Citizens

Can I trust the Issuer of the Verifiable Can I trust who is presenting the
Credential? Verifiable Credential?

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Three key technologies
Three components to benefit from the next evolution of the Web3.

Verifiable Credentials Blockchain/ ledger Digital Wallet

A new way of A new decentralised A new way to interact
expressing information infrastructure for/with citizens
Metadata
Claims
Proofs (signatures)

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Why invest in these technologies?
Almost impossible to fake but easy to verify

Almost impossible to fake but easy to verify

High level of certainty that the issuer is trusted

Verifiable alongside the time of issuance, expiry date, etc.
Credentials are
becoming the de High level of certainty that the holder is the one that the
facto standard Verifiable Credential was issued to.
because…
Verifiers have easy access to information but the
holder keeps data control and ownership with
possibility of partial disclosure of information.

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Verifiable Credentials, the basic information sharing scenario
A new pattern for C2B and C2G information exchange

Verifiable Credentials are a C2G and C2B Information sharing model

Issuer Holder Verifier

Issuance of Presentation of

Verifiable Credential Verifiable Presentation

Storage in

Digital wallet

underpinned by a DIGITAL IDENTITY for Holders +

TRUST MODEL for Issuers of Verifiable Credentials
Verify Issuer’s authenticity and
accreditation status
EBSI Ledger
Public Keys of Issuers

Register of Issuers

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Several approaches for digital identity can be used, even combined
EBSI is compatible with several approaches for digital identity, their combination is possible

My Identity

Digital Identity

Centralised Approach Federated Trust Model Distributed Trust Model

National eID means Trusted Identity networks European Self Sovereign Identity (ESSIF)

Important note! EBSI conformant wallets and Verifier Apps are encouraged to support
several approaches for verification of Digital Identity

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Verifiable Credentials can be used in many citizens journeys
Verifiable Credentials can be used in almost all types of citizen journeys

Identity Education Social Security

Holders Becoming a resident Applying for Master Applying for a job Working abroad

Issuers
Government entity A University A University A Social Security Institution

Verifiable
Credentials on the
wallet ID Credential Educational Credential Educational Credential PD-A1

Verifiers

Government entity B University B Employer Inspector

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Standards and recommendations
EBSI builds on existing standards and recommendations of EC, W3C, DIF, OpenID

W3C standards and OpenID Connect eIDAS JWT RFC family

recommendations

• Decentralized Identifiers v1 • OpenID Connect SIOP v2 • JAdES • IETF RFC 7515-7520

• Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1 • OpenID Connect for Verifiable Presentations • eID authentication and identification
• Presentation Exchange v2 • OpenID Connect for Verifiable Credentials Issuance

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Verifiable Credentials, EBSI scenario.
A new pattern (distributed and decentralised) for sharing information

Issuer 1
Holder 2
Verifier
DID
Issuance of DID Presentation of

Verifiable Credentials Verifiable Presentation

Open ID Connect Protocol Open ID Connect Protocol

Storage in
Digital wallet (*)

Set up of Issuer according to Verify Issuer’s authenticity and

EBSI onboarding accreditation status

EBSI Ledger

Public Keys of Issuers

Register of Issuers

CRL
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How does it work?
Step 0. Issuers are onboarded, wallets are setup and verifiers apps created

Issuer Holder Verifier

DID DID

Verifiable Credential Verifiable Presentation

• Registration of self-issued • No specific onboarding or

Public Keys and DID (as part • Selects an EBSI conformant
wallet. set-up apart from the use
of a DID document) on of a Verifier App that can
EBSI. exploit EBSI’s APIs and
• Wallet generates a DID, a
Public and a Private key. All interact with EBSI
• Accreditation of issuers of conformant wallets
VCs by Trusted Accreditation of them part of a DID
Authorities (TAOs). document stored on the
wallet.
• Registration of Issuers in
• NOTHING is stored on EBSI
EBSI’s issuer register.
ledger.
• Upgrade of Backoffice to
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according to EBSI’s playbook
How does it work?
Step 1. Issuance of a Verifiable Credential which is then stored on an EBSI conformant wallet

Issuer 1
Holder 2
Verifier
DID DID Presentation of

Verifiable Credential Verifiable Presentation

What does it contain?

> The DID of the entity that issues the credential
Credential Metadata > The status of the credential (Issuance Date, Expiry date)
DID

> The DID of the Holder of the credential (i.e. subject)

Claim(s) > The claims about the subject (What the issuer asserts about the subject)
DID

> Digital proof to make the credential tamper-evident (One or more

Proof (signature of Issuer)
cryptographic proofs that can be used to detect tampering and verify
the authorship of a credential).

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How does it work?
Step 2. Presentation of a Verifiable Credential for verification

Issuer 1
Holder 2
Verifier
DID
Issuance of DID Presentation of

Verifiable Credentials Verifiable Presentation

What is checked?
Checks that the subject of the
DID of the Holder VC is the one presenting it

Check time of issuance, if

Credential Metadata Credential Metadata expired and if issuer is
authorised

Check the claims about the

Claim(s) Claim(s) holder

EBSI Check the signature of the

Proof (signature of Issuer) Ledger Proof (signature of Issuer) Issuer / Public Key

Check the signature of the

Proof (signature of Holder) Holder

EBSI
Check the signature of the
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Ledger Check Issuer’s accreditation
Holder
Wallets mediate almost all user interactions.
The vast majority of interactions to exchange VCs depend on the wallet

Digital wallets

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EBSI offers the first European Wallet Conformance Testing
Highlights

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Conformant Wallets

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Break
Coffee Break

15’

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The MU Pilot - Demo
EC, EBP, Early Adopters and Conveners

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What are The EA Programme and the MU Pilot
10:45 - 10:55

we going Overview of today’s demos

to cover in 10:55 – 11:00

Part 02? Demo 1 / Demo 2 / Demo 3

11:00 – 12:30

Lunch Break
12:30 – 13:30

Demo 4 / Demo 5 / Demo 6

13:30 – 15:00

Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:15
The EA Programme
and the MU Pilot Daniel
DU SEUIL
Convener

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Imagining what EBSI can do
for European citizens
An incubator programme to help Early
Adopters and their partners imagine, build,
and launch their blockchain pilot project(s).

1st Pilot Programme: The Multi-University Pilot

The Multi-University Pilot. They join forces…
2 European universities alliances, 20 universities from 15 countries
 NW SE FI

LI

…to create
DE
NL

cross border BE

projects SK

FR AU
did:ebsi SL

HR
RO
Issuer Verifier
IT
University (ES) Company (CY)
ES
PT

GR

CY

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The timeline of the MU Pilot
What did they achieve so far?
21 INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS 6 CROSS-BORDER PROJECTS

Discover Design Build

Kick-off the Explore of EBSI Design pilot Select of cross- Finalise Demo Days -
MU pilot with specifications scenario and create border integration in Showcase the
Early Adopters and define pilot clusters at scenarios pre-prod and MU Pilot
scope Design Workshop design WCT
integration plan

JUL 2021 AUG 2021 SEP 2021 NOV 2021 MAR 2022 31/05/2022

We are here

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Introducing today’s
demos Saky
KOURTIDIS
EBSI SMO

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Principles
The different scenarios that have been implemented and that you will see for the first time as demo by the Member
States are respecting some key principles

Desirable – Meeting the cross-border ‘needs’

• Each scenario should illustrate a cross-border exchange of educational credentials

• Each scenario should involve at least 2 countries
• Each scenario should expose the use of different type of credentials

Viable – Having real impact on European citizens

• Each scenario should involve actors that are already in relationship / inter-connected (doing cross-border exchange)
• Each scenario should represent a significant amount of VC exchanges between the actors

Feasible – not ‘faked’

• Each scenario should be ‘working” meaning that the implementation is ready at least in pre-prod.
• Each scenario should meet the minimum standards of EBSI
• Each scenario should have an EBSI-conformant wallet
Narratives / Scenarios
How EBSI and education credentials can help citizens study,
lives, find a job and constantly grow, across border?

Studying abroad
FI
01 A student gets a diploma with a list of course units validated
from Erasmus (Transcript of Records Credential) (ES/BE/IT)

A student applies for a PhD with a Bachelor / Master degree from a

02 foreign country (Bachelor/Master Diploma Credential) (RO/GR/FR)
LT
Studying / Living abroad
03 A student gets access to local discounts using student credential
(European Student eCard) (BE/ES)
BE
BE
04 A refugee presents an EQPR to a European Italian University to
apply for a Master (EQPR - CoE Refugee Passport) (IT/DE)
FR

Finding a job RO

05 A graduated citizen applies for a job with a Degree from a

foreign country (License to Practice Credential) (GR/CY)
IT
IT
ES ES
Growing (personal development)
GR
06 A PhD student applies for specific courses in a foreign country
(Cross-border Micro-credentials) (FI/LT) GR

CY
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A student gets a diploma with a list of
course units validated from Erasmus
(Transcript of Records Credential)

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Who are we?
Project group
Scenario 1

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Who are we?

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Context / objectives

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 Student mobility in Una Europa alliance
Students’ mobility in Europe is a broad market.

Over 600.000 students

students (Bachelor, Master and PhD).

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higher education institutions

11 2019-2020 2020-2021
European countries
Total number of mobile students within the alliance at 563 874
all cycle levels (Bach, Ma, PhD), including on physical,
100.000 university staff virtual and blended mobility
teachers Total number of students registered within the alliance 454100 417622
(all higher education institutions)

Creation of an ecosystem in which all students move seamlessly, virtually and physically

Exchange diplomas and credits between the institutions of the

consortium and beyond in a secure and fraud-proof manner.
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Objectives
Digital transformation within our universities providing trust and privacy

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 Scenario
Combine identity credentials with educational credentials for student mobility

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Scenario 1 – Studying abroad

(1) Eva, as a Spanish citizen, engages with the Royal Spanish Mint website to obtain a
Spanish Verifiable-ID credential

(2) Based on her digital identity she applies for and obtains a Bachelor Degree from the
University of Rovira y Virgili in Spain. The University of Rovira y Virgili issues a
Verifiable-Diploma.

(3) Eva applies for a Master degree at KU Leuven University in Belgium and uses her
Spanish Verifiable-ID and Verifiable-Bachelor diploma in the simplified application
process. KU Leuven issues a Verifiable-Student ID BE

(4) In the context of her KU Leuven program, she goes on Erasmus for a period of 6
months at the University of Bologna in Italy. The University of Bologna issues a
Verifiable-Transcript of Records for the credits Eva obtained.
IT

(5) In order to get her diploma at KU Leuven in Belgium, she needs to share the list of ES
course taken in Italy that is verified and recognized by the KU Leuven University.

(6) Eva obtains a Master Degree from KU Leuven. KU Leuven in Belgium issues a
Verifiable-Diploma.
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Scenario 1 – Studying
abroad

Issuer Verifier Issuer Verifier Issuer Verifier Issuer Verifier Issuer

V-ID V-Academic ID V-Transcript of

V-Academic ID V-Diploma
V- Diploma Records
V-ID V-ID + V-Academic ID V-Academic ID +
V-Diploma V-Transcript of
Records

Request a V-academic id Apply at KU Leuven based on Onboard for exchange at After exchange, share the Obtain a KU Leuven V-
based on a V-ID to access the a Spanish V-ID and V- Unibo based on the V- obtained credits with KU Diploma
virtual campus of URV Diploma of URV academic id of KU Leuven Leuven based on a V-Transcript
of Records

Public Keys of Issuers Register of Issuers Credential revocation list

Walk-through - Demo
Student mobility

14
User and enterprise wallet
Verifiable Credentials exchange in EBSI

Issuer 1
Holder 2
Verifier
Issuance of Presentation of

Verifiable Credentials Verifiable Presentation

Storage in
Digital enterprise
wallet Digital user wallet

Set up of Issuer according to Verify Issuer’s authenticity and

EBSI onboarding accreditation status

Public Keys of Issuers

Register of Issuers

Credential revocation list 73

User and enterprise wallet
EBSI comformant wallet

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Onboarding
Verifiable Credentials exchange in EBSI

Issuer 1
Holder 2
Verifier
Issuance of Presentation of

Verifiable Credentials Verifiable Presentation

Storage in
Digital enterprise
wallet Digital user wallet

Set up of Issuer according to Verify Issuer’s authenticity and

EBSI onboarding accreditation status

Public Keys of Issuers

Register of Issuers

Credential revocation list 75

 Onboarding of Royal mint of Spain and Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Verifiable Credentials exchange in EBSI

EBSI admin

Ministry of Economic Affairs EQAR (& Ministry of EA &DT)

and Digital Transformation

Ministry of Education verifiable ID EQAR verifiable ID Public Keys of Issuers (DID registry)

Accreditation to accredit entities to issue Register of Accreditation Organizations

Accreditation to issue verifiable IDs (for
verifiable Academic ids, diplomas…
FNMT) (Trusted Accreditation Organizations
registry)
Accreditation to accredit entities to issue
Register of issuers (Trusted issuers
verifiable IDs, …
registry)

Register of data schema’s (Trusted schema registry)

Royal Spanish Mint (FNMT) Universidad Rovira I Virgili (Spain)

Royal mint of Spain verifiable ID Rovira I Virgili verifiable ID

Accreditation to issue verifiable IDs, Accreditation to issue verifiable

… Academic ids, diplomas, …

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 Onboarding of Una Europa
Verifiable Credentials exchange in EBSI
EBSI admin
Ministry of Education (Italy) TBD
Ministry of Education verifiable ID
Accreditation to issue verifiable IDs (for
universities)
Accreditation to accredit entities to issue
verifiable Transcript of Records, …
Unibo (Italy)
Unibo verifiable ID
Accreditation to issue verifiable
Transcript of Records, …
EQAR / NVAO (Belgium)
NVAO verifiable ID Public Keys of Issuers (DID registry)
Accreditation to issue verifiable IDs (for Register of Accreditation Organizations
universities)
(Trusted Accreditation Organizations
registry)
Accreditation to accredit entities to issue
verifiable Academic ids, diplomas… Register of issuers (Trusted issuers
registry)
Register of data schema’s (Trusted schema registry)
KU Leuven (Belgium)
KU Leuven verifiable ID
Accreditation to issue verifiable
Academic ids, diplomas, …
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Demo
Verifiable Credentials exchange in EBSI

Issuer 1
Holder 2
Verifier
Issuance of Presentation of

Verifiable Credentials Verifiable Presentation

Storage in
Digital enterprise
wallet Digital user wallet

Set up of Issuer according to Verify Issuer’s authenticity and

EBSI onboarding accreditation status

Public Keys of Issuers

Register of Issuers

Credential revocation list 78

 Impact on student mobility
Imagine that EBSI is used to manage mobility between Una Europa universities and other
educational institutions involved in ERASMUS

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 Impact on mobility
Imagine that all of this is actually used to manage mobility between Una Europa universities and other educational institutions involved in ERASMUS

Easier Student Faster credit Student in control to Happier students

onboarding @receiving recognition @home ensure privacy and administrations
university university
Reduce time and issue V-TOR to reduce time The SSI approach allow users Lower friction of processes
improve reliability of and reliability of ERASMUS to have all the verifiable + Increase efficiency by
student onboarding at credits recognition at the credentials they hold in one facilitating the exchange of
the receiving University home university (no more place, the personal wallet, data between private and
paper of PDF certificates and to control these public sectors resulting in
exchanged between the home credentials and their consent happier students and
and receiving universities) is required to use them. administrations

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A student applies for a PhD with a
Master degree from a foreign country
(Bachelor/Master Diploma Credential)

30’

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Index

01 Introduction

05 Walk-through - Demo

02 Context and Objectives

06 Roadmap and Key Challenges

03 Actors and Roles

07 Call to action

04 Scenario

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 01
Introduction
Brief introduction about our project and team
 Project Team
Teams from 3 countries have been taking part
EBSI4RO: Connecting Romania
through Blockchain
The EBSI4RO project aims to create an
extendable and sustainable ecosystem to
facilitate and accelerate the awareness,
knowledge, and adoption of EBSI in the
country.
The partners are the Executive Agency for
Higher Education, Research, Development
and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) and
Politehnica University of Timisoara,
Romania.
https://ebsi4ro.ro
Hellenic Distributed Ledger
Technology Infrastructure
The ELEDGER project aims at establishing a
solid pillar for the development and
spreading of the European Blockchain
Partnership (EBP) initiative in Greece.
Another project goal is to support the
participation and contribution of Greek
stakeholders to the European Blockchain
Service Infrastructure (EBSI).
https://ebsi-diplomas.dev.grnet.gr
fr.EBSI: Ready-to-use Academic
Credentials on EBSI
The fr.EBSI project aims to deliver
verifiable digital diplomas on the EBSI
blockchain, as well as the necessary
tools to universities for a large-scale
use.
This project is led for France by the
University of Lille, with the GIP Renater,
and BCdiploma as technical operator.
https://www.bcdiploma.com/blog/ebsi-
verifiable-credentials
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 02
Context and Objectives
The problem that we are trying to solve, and the ambitions and objectives of the cross-border
project
 Statistics with students for Bachelor/Master/PhD FR
programmes for the 3 countries RO

GR

349.414 687.121 1.116.575

students (Bachelor’s or equivalent students (Bachelor’s or equivalent students (Bachelor’s or equivalent
level) level) level)

171.909 84.077 1.018.120

students (Master’s or students (Master’s or students (Master’s or
equivalent level) equivalent level) equivalent level)

21.976 31.167 66.122

students (Doctoral or students (Doctoral or students (Doctoral or
equivalent level) equivalent level) equivalent level)

32.560 22.429 252.444

Mobile students from abroad Mobile students from abroad Mobile students from abroad 95
Sources - Numbers in 2020
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/education-and-training/data/database
Objectives
To support student mobility by applying EBSI Use Cases in a cross-border scenario to simplify the process of
issuing/verifying Bachelor/Master/PhD Diploma Credentials

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 03
Actors and roles
What are the actors and their roles?
 TAO (Trusted
Accreditation Issuer Holder Verifier
The ministry
Organisation) The university A The student The company /
university B
Reduce friction in Position your university Take control of their own Reduce mistakes and
interactions, as a pioneer brand, data in a secure way and protect against fraud,
increase trust reduce friction in easily move with their effortlessly interact with
(transparency) and interactions, own credentials across government agencies as
security in shared data. increase trust Europe. well as reduce friction
(transparency) and and reduce verification
security in shared data. costs.
At scale, decrease
administrative costs.
Ministry of Education, UEFISCDI,
Romania Politehnica University of
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Timisoara, Romania
Digital Governance,GRNET University of Athens, Greece
Greece University of Lille, France
Ministry of National Education,
France

Build a new Lead Enjoy mobility Reduce

trust paradigm the change across costs
borders
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 04
Scenario
The cross-border scenario we have developed
Scenario in details
Anca is a Romanian student who graduated with Bachelor’s studies from the Politehnica University of Timisoara (1).
She takes her Master Diploma at University of Athens in Greece (2) and applies for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Lille in France (3).

(1)
Countries
• Anca is a Romanian student. She applies for Bachelor Degree in the Politehnica University of Timisoara
• She receives her student email account from Politehnica University of Timisoara • Romania
• Anca signs into the Politehnica University of Timisoara Issuer Portal using her student credentials • Greece
• The Politehnica University of Timisoara issues a student ID (Verifiable Attestation) • France
• Anca becomes official student of the Politehnica University of Timisoara and gets her Bachelor Diploma
Actors in the scenario

• Politehnica University of Timisoara

(2) • University of Athens
• Anca applies for Master Programme at the University of Athens • University of Lille
• She requests the Politehnica University of Timisoara to issue her Bachelor Diploma (Verifiable Attestation)
• The University of Athens verifies the Student ID and Bachelor Diploma and Anca enrols for her Master Degree Types of credentials

• Student ID (Verifiable Attestation)

• Diploma (Verifiable Attestation)
(3) • Diploma (Verifiable Diploma - EUROPASS)
• Anca applies for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Lille, France
• She requests the University of Athens to issue her Master Diploma Wallet
• The University of Lille verifies it and Anca enrols for a Ph.D. degree
• The University of Lille issues Anca’s Ph.D. degree in a format that can be shared by email and verified online • WaltID

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The implemented
cross-border
scenario Verifier
Issuer

did:ebsi
Diploma Issuer
Credential
Diploma
Credential

Student ID

Verifier
Issuer

Diploma
Credential
Holder

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 05
Walk-through - Demo
Walk through the scenario from Anca’s point of view

https://youtu.be/g_SbCFqr_zE
 06
Roadmap and Key challenges
What we have accomplished and what were the key challenges
Addressing the challenge of student mobility in Europe
For services requiring student identity or degree verification

01 02 03
Using the same personal Issuing EBSI compliant Allowing a university
student wallet in 3 countries credentials recognized in department or recruiter to
and 3 universities other countries verify a credential
submitted by a student
The WaltID wallet (walt.id) used The 3 participating countries The open source verification
for this project has been used have issued Europass diplomas service is online
successfully valid on EBSI

• Thanks to walt.id support, and
• Using a DID and Verifiable Identity
Attributes issued by Politehnica University
of Timisoara, Romania.
• Thanks to a successful collaboration • Provided by the fr.EBSI project team,
between the 3 teams involved, and
• Thanks to walt.id SSI kit libraries.
• The constant and professional support of
the EBSI team.

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 07
Call to action
How we plan to scale the experience in the EBSI Early Adopters Programme
 EBSI4RO team will use the experience gained in the EA Programme in implementing a national
system for issuing university diplomas and micro-credentials on EBSI, integrated with the National
Student Enrolment Registry.
The delivery of five MOOCs about blockchain and EBSI, and policy proposals for the adoption of EBSI
Diplomas use-case are other EBSI4RO activities.
Also the team aims to collaborate with other EU universities and organizations for the adoption
of such cross-border scenarios.

As a result of the Eledger project, the roll out of the EBSI will be supported in Greece, allowing delivery
of cross-border public services based on the blockchain technology and enhancing the way citizens,
government and businesses interact.
GRNET would like to cooperate with several European universities and stakeholders to make
use of Verifiable credentials services and ease the cross-border interactions.

The fr.EBSI and University of Lille teams provide French Universities with an open source application to
automate the issuance of blockchain credentials (diplomas) from APOGEE and PEGASE data.
The fr.EBSI team will deploy a compliant EBSI wallet at the University of Lille before the end of 2022.
Furthermore, the team members hope for a wider collaboration with several member states and EU
universities to deploy the use of a wallet based on the European Student Identifier and its usefulness
during mobility between universities.

The 3 teams aim to continue and disseminate their collaboration in organizing joint events and in publishing
joint articles.
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Each year, thousands of European students apply to study
in a foreign country. Let’s support them in building their
learning journey like Anca did, using the EBSI capabilities.

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A student gets access to local discounts
using student credential
(European Student eCard)

30’

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 Our Team

ValidatedI Spanish qualified trusted service

D provider
• +10 years of experience
• Working in SSI since 2017
• Members of the DIF, Inatba,
Alastria and part of the EBSI
Iván Basart development team.
Chief
• VIDchain: demo SSI wallet
Technology
Officer • 1st wallet to pass the EBSI
conformance test
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 Our Team

Howest An entrepreneurial university

University • Innovative and
interdisciplinary approach
• Collaboration with
industry, business & the
social sector
Shane Deconinck • 8.500 students
Blockchain
Developer &
Architect
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 Our Team

Open A public digital agency

Governmen
t • e-Services for 1.000 govs
of • 2.5M digital IDs
Catalonia • ID hub connected to eIDAS

• 85M of credential exchanges

between governments
Miquel Estapé
• IOP hub: +100 credentials
Deputy CEO &
Chief Innovation • Municipality pilots: El Prat, St. Feliu
Officer Llobregat, Tarragona, Valls, Viladecans 111
Objective

Issues Objectives
Not all public credentials are interoperable Empowerment of citizens by
Exchanges between public & private sector fostering the control of their
are restricted data and providing
trustworthy interoperability
Citizens don’t trust what Governments do services
with their data
Promoting a global digital
Too many IDs: convenience, cost & security identity
Scenario Issuer
Student
A student gets eCard
access to local
discounts using Holder
student credential Universit
y

Student
eCard

Municipalit
Verifier y of El Prat
EBSI
Scenario
A student gets access to local discounts using student credential
Municipality of
Howest Belgian Student El Prat (AOC)
Univ. 1 Holder 2 Verifier
Issuer Issuance of Presentation of
Student eCard Student eCard

Storage in
ValidatedID eWallet

Set up of Issuer Verify Issuer’s

according to EBSI authenticity and
onboarding accreditation status

Public Keys of Issuers

Register of Issuers
CRL 114
Demo
Let’s go !
Summary
Opportunitie
s
• Real data & on-boarding
• Rapid deployment to 1.000
governments of Catalonia
• Scalable to any European
university
Next steps
• GDPR compliance
• EBSI infrastructure in
production
• Add revocation feature
b Demo QAs
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Break
Lunch Break

60’
Narratives / Scenarios
How EBSI and education credentials can help citizens study,
lives, find a job and constantly grow, across border?

Studying abroad
FI
01 A student gets a diploma with a list of course units validated
from Erasmus (Transcript of Records Credential) (ES/BE/IT)

A student applies for a PhD with a Bachelor / Master degree from a

02 foreign country (Bachelor/Master Diploma Credential) (RO/GR/FR)
LT
Studying / Living abroad
03 A student gets access to local discounts using student credential
(European Student eCard) (BE/ES)
BE
BE
04 A refugee presents an EQPR to a European Italian University to
apply for a Master (EQPR - CoE Refugee Passport) (IT/DE)
FR

Finding a job RO

05 A graduated citizen applies for a job with a Degree from a

foreign country (License to Practice Credential) (GR/CY)
IT
IT
ES ES
Growing (personal development)
GR
06 A PhD student applies for specific courses in a foreign country
(Cross-border Micro-credentials) (FI/LT) GR

CY
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A refugee presents an EQPR to a European
University to apply for a Master
(EQPR - CoE Refugee Passport)

30’

121
Index

Introduction Actors and roles Roadmap

Scenario Challenges
Context

Objectives Walk-through - Demo Call to action

Introduction
 Introduction
Our team The Council of Europe is a leader in the higher education field. The European
Qualifications Passport for Refugees, implemented by the Council of Europe since 2017 in
15 countries, is highlighted as a practical tool to implement Article VII of the Lisbon
Recognition Convention. The European Qualifications Passport for Refugees provides a
methodology for assessing refugees’ qualifications even when they cannot be fully
documented, thereby supporting their further studies, employment and integration, as
well as a format for describing the assessment.

CIMEA Infratel Italia University of Cagliari GovPart GmbH

CIMEA – Information Centre on Academic Mobility and
Equivalence has performed since 1984 its specific
activity of information and advising on the procedures
of qualifications recognition and on themes linked to
Italian and international higher education and training.
From 2019, it has adopted blockchain solutions for
issuing its assessments. Since 2018 it has been
involved in EQPR project with Council of Europe and
support it in the development of EQPR platform.
Infratel Italia is the Public Company of
Italian Ministry of Economic Development
in charge of broad band connectivity
infrastructure and projects.
lt also supports the Minister on Blockchain
projects and in European Blockchain
Partnership Initiative.
The University of Cagliari, Founded by Philip III of
Spain in 1620, is an Italian public University
providing 83 degree courses to a total of about
25000 students.
Through Diplome the University of Cagliari is
among the early adopters of the Diploma Use
Case in EBSI and in this Use Case it is able to
accept EQPR documents for enrolling refugees in
its courses by mean of the Blockchain technology
and to issue diploma certifications validated on
the EBSI blockchain.
GovPart GmbH was founded with the idea of
driving innovative projects on behalf of clients
and being able to draw on a large network of
experts. It can bring its expertise and experience
to projects that involve integrating new
technologies into existing or newly established
processes. In addition, GovPart is contracted to
lead or support various communities in the field
of Blockchain and Self Sovereign Identity in
Germany.
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European Qualifications Passport for Refugees (EQPR) on
EBSI

2 years later… Call for a job

interview
Ahmed’s journey Arriving in Europe and applying for a Master Graduating at the Master and applying for a job

Issuers of
Verifiable Credentials
Council of Europe in charge of EQPR University of Cagliari

Ahmed’s wallet
EQPR direct sharing Educational credential, email sharing

Verifiers of
Verifiable Credentials
(Ahmed shares his credentials) University of Cagliari GovPart GmbH

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Context
Context
EQPR on EBSI
A refugee or a displace person
coming from a non EU country,
arrives in Europe whishing to pursue
his academic and professional
career within European countries
but with lacking of relevant
documentation obtained in his
country.
EBSI works cross-border - with refugees too
The European Qualifications Passport From 2021 onwards the Council of
for Refugees is a special international Europe has digitalized the entire
tool developed to assess refugee’s workflow of the process and issues
EQPR through Diplome Blockchain
qualifications for which there is
platform.
insufficient or missing documentation.
The project is carried out by the The EQPR holders can now share their
Council of Europe and partners since document in a simple, secure and fast
the piloting phase in 2017. way directly by their wallet with higher
education institutions, companies,
employees all around Europe.
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EQPR
Facts and results since 2017

+795 Interviews taken EQPR issued

15
ENIC NARIC centres involved Nationalities of the candidates interviewed
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Objectives
Objectives
EQPR on EBSI

Inclusivity Mobility
Stakeholders People
Services Data

Integration Harmonisation
Public blockchain EBSI infrastructure
European blockchain

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Actors and roles
 Issuer
Actors and roles Council of Europe
Issues EQPR, following an assessment,
EQPR on EBSI upon the request of the student

Italy Syria Germany

Verifier / Issuer Holder Verifier

(Trusted Issuer Register)

University of Cagliari Student GovPart GmbH

Configures the wallet, requests the Verifies the educational

Verifier (on EBSI) of the credential
shared by the student and Issuer
of educational credentials (on
EBSI) upon the request of the
student
credentials shared by the
issuance of educational credentials
and share it with university / student
employer

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Scenario
Scenario
EQPR on EBSI – a joint journey

 Ahmed Mutawalla Ahmed is a Syrian refugee who obtained a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Damascus University, Syria

 After his arrival in Europe, he wishes to enrol into a Master degree course in Artificial Intelligence at University of
Cagliari but he doesn’t have his previous academic documents

 He submits an application for the EQPR lead by the Council of Europe and after obtaining the European Qualifications
Passport for Refugees, he shares it with University of Cagliari that enrols Ahmed Mutawalla Ahmed into the Master
programme in Artificial Intelligence

 After two years, Ahmed gets his Final Diploma from University of Cagliari and applies for a job at GovPart GmbH a
German company looking for a new engineer with a Master degree in Artificial Intelligence.

 GovPart GmbH verifies Ahmed Certifications and invites him for an interview

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Scenario in details
EQPR on EBSI –a joint journey
Ahmed is a Syrian refugee who left his country and arrived in a European country without or with partial documentation referred to his previous
study path. In the framework of the EQPR project (European Qualifications Passport for Refugees), he has the chance to undergo an assessment-
based procedure so to obtain a standardized document that explains the qualifications he has obtained in his country and shared it with any Third
Party. Countries
• Syria
 He registers with Council of Europe EQPR service that onboards Ahmed on EBSI • Italy
• Germany
 He requests to Council of Europe - EQPR for the assessment of his academic study path. • Strasbourg
 Council of Europe, as EBSI Trusted Issuer issues a Verifiable credential (V. EQPR assessment) to Ahmed signing it with its private key.
Its public key can be checked through EBSI service APIs.
Actors in the scenario
• Council of Europe
Ahmed having the chance to further his studies in Europe, contacts the University of Cagliari, Italy, that accepts EBSI-compliant EQPR • University of Cagliari (IT)
document as part of the application. • GovPart GmbH (DE)

Types of credentials
 Ahmed, using his EBSI conformant wallet, directly shares his EQPR with University of Cagliari.
• Student DID
 The University of Cagliari verifies the V.EQPR assessment • Issuer’s DIDs
 The University of Cagliari verifies that Council of Europe is a trusted EBSI issuer • EQPR (Verifiable Attestation)
• Diploma (Verifiable
Attestation)
Ahmed is officially enrolled as a student at the University of Cagliari and after two years he obtains the Master degree in Artificial
Intelligence. Wallet
• EBSI compliant Diplome

 The University of Cagliari issues a V.Attestation to Ahmed as Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, signing it with its private key.
Issuer’s (University of Cagliari) public key can be checked through EBSI service APIs.

Ahmed wishes to find a job and gets in touch with GovPart GmbH, Germany, which opens a job vacancy for graduates in artificial intelligence

 GovPart GmbH requests Ahmed to share his V. Attestation issued by University of Cagliari
 Ahmed shares via email the V. Attestation with GovPart
 GovPart verifies it, checking EBSI Issuer DID/signature and EBSI User DID and signature matches with Issuer’s Key.
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Walk-through - Demo
1. Wallet set up on EQPR platform

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1. Wallet set up on EQPR platform of Council of Europe

1.1. Ahmed Mutawalla Ahmed registers into EQPR

platform that onboards Ahmed on EBSI
1.2. Ahmed Mutawalla Ahmed requests to Council
of Europe the EQPR for the assessment of his
academic study path.

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 1. Wallet set up on EQPR platform of Council of Europe
1.3. Ahmed Mutawalla Ahmed submits his application and waits for the interview based assessment.

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1. Wallet set up on EQPR platform of Council of Europe
Council of Europe receives the request
1.4. Council of Europe receives and analysis the questionnaire and the documentations submitted by Ahmed
Mutawalla Ahmed. After having checked his identity, Council of Europe interviews Ahmed so to substantiated the
dossier presented in order to issue or not the EQPR.

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2. EQPR issuances & storage
(live)

141
2. Issuance of Verifiable Credentials
2.1. Council of Europe, as EBSI Trusted Issuer issues a Verifiable credential (V. EQPR assessment) to Ahmed
signing it with its private key.

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2. Issuance of Verifiable Credentials
2.2. Ahmed Mutawalla Ahmed has now is EQPR
assessment securely stored into his EBSI
conformant wallet.

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2. Issuance of Verifiable Credentials
2.3. Through the APP, Ahmed Mutawalla
Ahmed is able to checked the public key
through EBSI service APIs.

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Applying for a Master course at University of Cagliari
and Direct sharing of Verifiable credential

Ahmed would like to further his study in an Italian higher education

institution enrolling into a second cycle degree in Artificial Intelligence.

Checking online, he finds out that University of Cagliari, Italy, offers

a Master programme in Artificial Intelligence.

Ahmed having the chance to further his studies in Europe, contacts the
University of Cagliari that accepts EBSI-compliant EQPR document
as part of the application.

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3. Direct sharing of Verifiable credential

146
3. Direct sharing of Verifiable credential
3.1 Ahmed, using his EBSI conformant wallet, directly shares his EQPR with University of Cagliari

147
3. Direct sharing of Verifiable
credential
3.2 University of Cagliari receives the verifiable credential and verifies the V.EQPR assessment

148
3. Direct sharing of Verifiable
credential
3.3 The University of Cagliari verifies that Council of Europe is a trusted EBSI
issuer

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Ahmed is officially enrolled as a student at the University
of Cagliari and after two years he obtains the Master
degree in Artificial Intelligence.

2 years later…
Ahmed Mutawalla graduated

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 4. Issuance of Verifiable credential
(Master degree Diploma in Artificial Intelligence)

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4. Issuance of Verifiable Credentials
4.1. The University of Cagliari issues a V.Attestation to Ahmed as Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, signing it
with its private key. Issuer’s (University of Cagliari) public key can be checked through EBSI service APIs.

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5. Sharing of Verifiable credential via email

153
5. Sharing of Verifiable credential via e-mail

5.1 Ahmed wishes to find a job and gets in touch with GovPart GmbH,
Germany, which opens a job vacancy for graduates in artificial intelligence

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5. Sharing of Verifiable credential via e-mail

5.2 GovPart GmbH requests Ahmed

to share his V. Attestation issued by
University of Cagliari

5.3 Ahmed shares via email the V.

Attestation with GovPart

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5. Email sharing of Verifiable
credential
5.4. Gov part receives an email with information on how to checks the authenticity of information received, along with
the DID of the issuer.

156
5. Email sharing of Verifiable
credential
5.5 GovPart verifies it, checking EBSI Issuer DID/signature and EBSI User DID and signature matches with
Issuer’s Key.

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Roadmap
What’s next?
EQPR on EBSI

 APP

 full deployment of EQPR on the

EBSI production infrastructure

 Enlarge the involvement of ENIC

NARIC centres and European
universities
Key challenges
Key Challenges
EQPR on EBSI

Interoperability Compatibility

Reliability Authenticity

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Call to action
One user
A wallet
Multiple services for digital academic mobility
A graduated citizen applies for a job
with a Degree from a foreign country
(License Practice Credential)

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Meet our speakers
Welcome to the first publicly open EBSI Demo Day !

Yiorgos Yiorgos Nikos

Antoniou Constantinou Voutsinas
CY-EBSI CY-EBSI eDiplomas.gr
Technical PM Architect – Dev. Leader (Greek Universities Network)
AC Goldman Solutions & AC Goldman Solutions & GUnet’s Tech Lead
Services Services

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The CY Consortium
The License to Practice pilot use case has been specified, designed and developed by AC Goldman Solutions &
Services Ltd (Goldman). The Greek Universities network (GUnet), cooperated with CY-EBSI as an external
partner, working along with Goldman to give the Use Case a cross-border dimension, as specified by the EA
EBSI program.

Organisation/Company Acronym Main role in CY-EBSI

RTD TALOS LTD TALOS Overall Project Management

AC Goldman Solutions & Services GSS Ltd GOLDMAN Use Case implementation – specification, analysis, development

University of Nicosia – Educational

UNIC EBSI nodes/platform setup
Excellence Corporation

Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation Enrolment in Cyprus Gov. Digitalization Strategy Program – Facilitating
DMRID
and Digital Policy project and driving dissemination activities

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 Meet Eva
The « Licence to Practice » scenario

• A Cypriot citizen, Engineering / Science

Graduate from a Greek University.

• Returns to Cyprus to apply for a career job.

• Required to register with a national

professional body that awards a Licence to
Practice an engineering profession in Cyprus

• License is granted based on the assessment

and validation of the holder’s credentials.

• Eva can now support her job applications, by

authorizing prospective employers to
view/verify her “License to Practise” VC.
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The opportunity in figures
The «Licence to Practice» environment (scale-impact)

>1500 >30 Top 3 >12

CY Engineering CY TAOs, TIs Popular Graduation Number of major
Graduates requiring relevant to the countries (CY students): - professional
ETEK* License per Diploma Use Case Associations in CY
year (15% of the total issuing licenses or
annual graduates
35% Cyprus
certificates to practice
30% Greece (Medical, Law,
Accountants etc.)
15% UK

*ETEK : Cyprus Technical and Scientific Chamber

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Issues with the Licence to Practice application process
Mostly manual, partly digitised but not digitalised process, with the adverse effects on all stakeholders

Delays Admin costs Errors, fraud,

The process takes a minimum of 3
months. This requires Submission of
original/notarized documents, proof of
ID, certificates and Diplomas that are
verified and assessed manually.
Similar with any manual process
executed on the basis of “paper”
evidence, this bears a considerable
administrative cost to the Assessing
Body (Licence Issuer), as well as to the
graduate/applicant.
and trust
Human errors, as well as Fraud attempts may
occur on a frequent basis, adversely impacting
public confidence to the system. Preventative
activities (risk management), as well as audit
processes are required to be in place and
active.
The validity/grade of a presented licence to
practice is not provided in real-time, neither
this can be verified by a viewer/employer,
unless a manual enquiry is made – it may take
days/weeks to be formally answered.

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Eva’s journey; from Graduation to professional Career
Obtaining a Licence to Practice her Profession

ESSIF Education Job Market

APPLYING FOR A
REQUESTING DIPLOMA REQUESTING PROF. JOB
Eva’s journey CITIZEN - STUDENT
CREDENTIALS CREDENTIALS

Issuers of
Cyprus Scientific and
Verifiable Credentials CY Citizen’s Portal –
University of Athens Technical Chamber
ARIADNI
(ΕΤΕΚ)

Eva’s wallet
LICENSE TO PRACTICE Employers-Viewers’
V-ID Credential Educational Credential Portal

Verifiers of
Verifiable Credentials Cyprus Scientific and
VC viewing
GUnet Employer and
(Eva shares her Technical Chamber verification
credentials) (ΕΤΕΚ)
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Understanding the roles of each actor
Distribution of roles per Member State
CYPRUS GREECE
Mobile

Trusted Accreditation Issuer Holder Trusted Accreditation Issuer

Organisation (TAO) Organisation (TAO)
CYPRUS Ariandi ETEK Graduate Hellenic Ministry eDiplomas.gr
GOVERNMENT of Education (GUnet)
Ministry of Ministry of Issues Issues Configures the wallet, Verifies the ID shared by
requests the issuance of Registers
Interior Commerce Verifiable License to the student and issues
credentials, saves and issuers of
Registers Registers ID practice Diploma credentials upon
shares these on request. Diplomas VCs.
issuers of issuers of credentials credentials request .
Verifiable ID Verifiable
credentials. License to
Ministry of Practice
Education
Registers
issuers of
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 Introduction to the demo
Overview of the scenario’s various steps that we are going to demonstrate

Issue VC-ID Issue Diploma
User creates a CY-EBSI A University issues a
wallet for which his VC-ID is diploma upon request
issued by Cyprus (having verified the
Government’s portal requestor’s VC-ID) – the VC-
(Ariadni) – saved in the Diploma is then accepted
User’s CY-EBSI wallet. and saved by the User in
his CY-EBSI wallet.
Apply for a Issue License to Present Verifiable
License to practice Credentials
Practice
User applies to become a Provided the User’s The User may now present
member of the Chamber credentials meet the his License to Practice VC
(ETEK), to be able to qualification criteria, ETEK (saved in his CY-EBSI
practice a profession in issues the License to wallet) to potential
Practice VC for his specific
Cyprus, based on his scientific discipline. The employers for verification.
verifiable ID and Diploma User accepts and saves the
credentials. ETEK License in his CY-EBSI
authenticates his ID and wallet
verifies his Diploma
credentials.
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 Verifiers and Issuers

CY-EBSI cross  Onboard DID Registry

 Store evidences of issuance
border scenario  Check attributes of VCs
(without demo clips) EBSI
CY-EBSI
Employers’ Portal Services Trusted 1b
registries
1a
e. Secure Login XYZ
did:ebsi
XYZ@JOB.com
– view VCs as c. Send VCs VID
authorised by for viewing by VID
Eva. XYZ@... 2
1 Diploma

b. Authorise
5 3
XYZ@ for VC
presentation VID and Diploma
Holder,
a. Requesting for ETEK Eva 4
Licence/membership
Licence to Practice
Employer profession in
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Next steps
Innovation + Public Good: Key ingredients to Inspiration

Taking the Diploma Evolution/migration Quick wins and Intending to

Use Case to of web-Wallet: funding - Feasibility Participate in relevant
Production – terms Develop Android and studies on several DEP calls currently
currently been iOS wallet apps. leads (other Use open - capitalise,
finalised. Cases) – currently share and enhance our
UI improvements
handling enquiries acquired expertise and
Scale-up in terms of (design/functionality
from the Private know-how.
issuers enrolment. ) and security
sector.
Mitigate “process enhancements Aspiring to positively
migration” Influence EBSI’s
risks/resistance. evolution.

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A PhD student applies for specific courses
in a foreign country
(Cross-border Micro-credentials)

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 Cross-border collaborative team
uniting CEF-projects from Tampere
University (Finland) and Kaunas
Technical University (Lithuania) DLTnode:
MicroBlock: “Lithuanian CEF funded project aiming to develop and test EBSI
“Finnish CEF funded project aiming to evaluate the benefits of node, validate, and integrate it to European Blockchain Service
blockchain in both Finnish educational data processes and Infrastructure (EBSI) and strengthen the capacity of public
ecosystem as well as in cross-border digital micro-credential services, institutions, and stakeholders to use EBSI”
scenarios.” https://dltnode.eu/
https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/microblock-advancing-exchange- Gediminas Mažeika – Developer@Skaitos kompiuterių servisas
micro-credentials-ebsi-0
Jonas Žalinkevičius – Director@eDelivery LT
Henri Pirkkalainen – Associate professor TAU
Padmasheela Kiiskilä – Doctoral student TAU
Otto Hylli – Doctoral student TAU

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 Third level
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ECIU University learning

opportunities

• Challenge-based learning activities

• Student teams solving grand societal challenges
together
• Often international and interdisciplinary teams
• Micro-modules
• Includes learning offerings from ECIU University
partner universities
• SDG11- and language-learning related modules
• Micro 1-3 ECTS, Standard up to 8 ECTS
• Provided in online or in a hybrid setting
ECIU micro-credentials
The role of EDCL and EBSI

ECIU micro-modules

Digital credential as a proof of learning Learners store digital

(containing competence data) credentials in their
own digital wallet

ECIU challenges
What do we want to achieve?
What do we want to achieve?
The Diploma Use Case will
demonstrate that EBSI can
implement cross-border
verification of educational
credentials
This means that an EDCL-based
digital credentials with its data
(e.g., competences developed)
can be exchanged between
European HE institutions
technically and the learning can
be recognized
The value proposition is the
simplicity and reliability of the
cross-border verification process
and the educational value for
Anna via realization of flexible
study pathways
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Meet Anna
PhD student from Tampere

• Background in Business administration,

work experience in the industry

• Upskilling needs due to switching to

circular economy focus

• Flexible options required to sooth her

interests

• Many of the studies she is interested on

are short learning experiences and often
outside her own university

• She needs the studies recognized (ECTS)

and she wants actual proofs of her
competence development

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Anna’s micro-credential journey
Flexible learning pathway with micro-credentials

ESSIF In-house education ECIU micro-credentials

Enroll into the challenge Completes challenge Receive academic

Anna’s journey Becoming a PhD student Applying for the course “Data “Transition of a City Towards credits
successfully
and software business” Circular Economy”

Issuers of
Kaunas
Verifiable Credentials University of
Tampere university (TAU) Tampere university (TAU)
Technology (KTU)

Anna’s wallet
Receives Micro-credential
Receives Academic ID (& academic credits at TAU)
Receives Micro-credential
Share
Verifiers of Share
Verifiable Credentials Share
(Anna shares her Kaunas
Tampere university
University of
credentials)
Technology (KTU)
 Key steps of implementation
Cross-border micro-credentials

Connect ECIU micro- Implement EBSI for Connect/emulate to Implement the

credentials with DC exchange via the university issuer and verifier
Digital Credentials Open Source tools academic system EBSI capabilities at
(DC) based on EDCL (Walt.Id) both TAU and KTU

Kaunas University
Trusted Accreditation Organisations (TAO) Tampere university
of Technology (KTU)

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 Key challenges
Implementing cross-border micro-credential scenarios

Micro-Credentials scaling Digital credentialization scaling

• Awareness on micro-credentials still relatively low • Data model and platforms available (Kiiskilä et al., 2022). However,
administrative processes do not build on verification via EBSI
• Universities in a transition stage
• Much of the current work on manual processes which doesn’t scale

Technical realization Use case scaling

• GDPR issues and lack of integration to universities’
strategies and practices sets limitations to real-life testing
• EBSI capabilities cannot itself solve procedural and
administrational challenges embedded in universities
• Need more momentum via increased number of pilots and
active collaboration of tech developers, universities,
researchers and ministries

Kiiskilä, P.; Hanafy, A. and Pirkkalainen, H. (2022). Features of Micro-credential Platforms in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 14th
International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1, ISBN 978-989-758-562-3, ISSN 2184-5026, pages 81-91. 186
 Learners seem to expect wide proofs of their prior
competence development. EBSI-conformant digital wallets
and credentials can cater for this expectation

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Ambition to expand the use of EBSI to large
cross-border scenarios via ECIU University and
new collaborators via EBSI

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Break
Coffee Break

Back in session at 15:30

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Looking ahead
EC, EBP and Panellists

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Guidelines
Some ground rules for making sure this is a smooth day.
Two channels,
two purposes:
WebEx Chat throughout, to be used for general
questions, technical support needs, etc.
Sli.do for dedicated Q&A’s and polling moments -
the moderator will let you know!
General rule for all Tech support
chats:
1. Be kind and courteous. Debate is welcome, but let's In case you face any technical difficulties, try
treat each other with respect. leaving the webinar and join again by call/dial into
the WebEx webinar for audio clarity. For direct
2. No Hate speech or Bullying: bullying of any kind, and support, please go to the chat and send a PM to
degrading comments targeting race, religion, sexual
orientation, gender or identity (etc), will not be
tolerated
Technical Support
3. No (self) promotions or spam
4. Respect people's privacy and your own: do not share
personal information like address, email, phone
number etc... that could lead to someone identifying
you or someone else. Doxxing of any kind will not be
allowed.
5. Stay on topic: please use the chat to discuss the
topics presented during the EBSI Demo Day so
everyone can benefit from this discussion and we (the
hosts and speakers) have a bigger chance of seeing
your questions.
What are Panel discussion
15:15 – 16:15

we going How can you get involved in EBSI?

to cover in 16:15 – 16:30

Part 03? Concluding remarks

16:30 – 17:00
Panel discussion Maxine
A vision of a decentralised future: LEMM
Project Manager,

the role of the public sector DG DIGIT

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Presentation of our today’s panellists
Presentation of our today’s panellists

Moderator Panellists

Maxine Andrea Koen Katrien Sebastiano Marc

LEMM SERVIDA NOMDEN VANELVEN TOFFALETTI TARVERNER
Project Manager, Head of Unit Team Leader Policy Advisor, Secretary General Executive Director,
DG DIGIT “Knowledge Transparency International at European INATBA
Management & and Recognition Office, KU Leuven DIGITAL SME
Innovative of Skills and Alliance
Systems” at DG Qualifications, at
CONNECT DG EMPL
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How can you get
involved in EBSI?
Pierre
MARRO
Policy Officer,
DG CNECT

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 The potential of EBSI for Verifiable Credentials is great !
Here is an non-exhaustive list of possible domains and examples

Food / Beverage Business Health Administration Transport

I want to guarantee / verify the
origin / authenticity of a
product (e.g. organic product)
I want to guarantee / verify the
I want to guarantee / verify
origin / authenticity of a health
the origin of funding.
certificate.
I want to guarantee / verify I want to guarantee / verify the
the origin / authenticity of a origin / authenticity of the
birth certificate. consignments transported.

Audit Diploma Identity Energy Law

I want to guarantee / verify I want to guarantee / verify I want to guarantee / verify the I want to guarantee / verify I want to guarantee / verify the
the origin of publications / the origin of diploma authenticity of the identity of my energy consumption origin / authenticity of the
books of accounts credentials a person / legal entity is green. apostille

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The EBSI ecosystem mobilises a wide range of actors
The EBSI ecosystem mobilise wide range of actors

Students / Businesses
CITIZENS /
Businesses To start experimenting with
wallets and educational credentials.

USE CASE LIFECYCLE

Policy Makers
POLICY
To understand how EBSI can help
design and implement policies.
EBP to decide Develop Use Pilot Use Scale up the
on priorities Cases Cases adoption of Use
PAs or other organisations Cases
BUSINESS
To develop cross-border services using EBSI
and to contribute to its development.

Wallet Providers
MEDIATION
To make their digital wallets
conformant with EBSI.

Node operators
INFRA
To run nodes on the
EBSI infrastructure.
EBSI already enables to pilot actions in pre-production and will
be in production this summer. The main objective is now to
further engage with contributors and users of EBSI.

Digital Europe Call A new phase of the Communication and EU Regulatory

for Proposal Early Adopter enlargement of the Sandbox for EBSI and
Programme EBSI Community Blockchain projects

• Reinforcing the EBSI network
and its nodes
• Working to develop and
stimulate the use of VC model
• Supporting the implementation
of other use cases.
• Support to standardisation
• Leveraging the EBSI work done for
verifiable credentials (Scaling up
education and piloting new UC like
ESSPASS)
• Working with wallets providers and
solutions to exploit EBSI and its VC
model
• Piloting Document traceability
• Continue communication • Contract with facilitators
campaign to give visibility to launched in Q3 / Q4 2022
EBSI
• Cooperation with national
• Engage and enlarge the and EU authorities
network of active contributors
• Continuously improve the
quality of our documentation
and available resources
Timeline
Concretely, what are the next important milestones?

GROWING THE EBSI COMMUNITY

22 February Second half 17 August September Beginning of
2022 of June 2022 2022 2023

Digital Europe Call for proposal New info Call for proposal Digital Europe
Call for open day closed Programme
Proposal projects launched

A new phase of Expression of Registration and Kicking-off

the Early interest to join confirmation of the new wave
Adopter the next wave pilot / project of the EA
Programme of the EA teams Programme
Programme
 The deadline for the call for proposal is extended to 17 August
2022. An info day will be organised during the second half of June
with dedicated timeslots booked to pitch your projects.

call-fiche_digital-2022-deploy-02_en.pdf (europa.eu)
Ready to get started?
Reach out to us to learn more!
Send an e-mail to EU-EBSI@ec.europa.eu
or visit our website.

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Conclusion
Concluding remarks Perrine
de COETLOGON
EBP Co-Chair

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