TrustChain, a project funded by the European Commission, is looking for developers, innovators, researchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs working on different NGI relevant topics and applications domains at the intersection between the technical field, the social sciences and humanities, as well as any others including economics, environment, art design, which can contribute to NGI TrustChain relevant vision.

TrustChain aims at creating a portfolio of Next Generation Internet protocols and an ecosystem of decentralised identity management software solutions that is transparent to the user, interoperable, privacy aware and regulatory compliant that can seamlessly integrate and interoperate with any of the existing decentralised applications.

The first TrustChain Call - Decentralised digital identity - will distribute a total amount of €1.755.000 and welcome 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.
• 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.

The target applicants of this call are developers, innovators, researchers, SMEs and entrepreneurs working on different NGI relevant topics and applications domains at the intersection between the technical field, the social sciences and humanities, as well as any others including economics, environment, art design, which can contribute to NGI TrustChain relevant vision.