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The European Commission has unveiled a pilot project called STORK (Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed) whose aim is to ensure the cross-border recognition of national electronic identity (eID) systems in 13 Member States, so as to enable the cross-border provision of online services.
The European Commission is working on this Large Scale Pilot with Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as Iceland (as a member of the European Economic Area).
The project will establish a number of trans-border pilot projects based on existing national eID systems. In practice, some of the most useful eID services will be tested by defining a set of common specifications allowing for the recognition of different national eIDs between the participants.
Without replacing national schemes, the new system will allow citizens to identify themselves electronically in a secure way using their national electronic identity (eID via electronic cards or other means), and deal with foreign public administrations either from public offices, from their PC or ideally from any other mobile device. The solutions developed and the experience gained by the project team will be shared with all states, whether they are participating or not in the pilot.
The project is supported by the Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP). STORK will run for three years and will receive €10 million funding from the European Commission’s Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), as well as an equal contribution from the participating parties.
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