The eSSIF-Lab is an EU-supported project which aims at advancing the broad uptake of Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) as next-generation, open and trusted digital identity solution for faster and safer electronic transactions via the Internet and in real life. It was funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme and is framed under Next-Generation Internet Initiative.
eSSIF-Lab is building SSI jointly with SSI ecosystem by using a cascade funding approach, meaning the framework will be built upon extensions that will be selected through the following open-calls:
• one (1) infrastructure-oriented open call targeting (20) open-source technical enhancements and extensions of their SSI framework and
• two (2) business-oriented open-calls targeting (42) commercial competitive SSI components and services.
Currently, only the participants for the first business-oriented call have been selected and announced, meaning elsewhere applications are still open or in the process of evaluation.
Below you can see proposal distributions by countries: the call has received 54 proposals from 21 countries; however 161 in total started from 24 different countries.