On May 26, 2025, the EBSI-VECTOR project celebrated its Final Event, gathering more than 70 participants from across Europe in a remote session. The event provided a comprehensive overview of the project’s achievements and the progress made in deploying verifiable credentials and trusted organization registries on the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI).
The event opened with remarks from David Santos González (IZERTIS, responsible for EBSI-VECTOR´s Communication and Dissemination), who introduced the main themes of the day, outlining EBSI-VECTOR’s focus on the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure and verifiable credentials. He highlighted the aim of bringing these infrastructures to a production-ready phase, enabling secure and reliable exchange of critical information and the practical use of verifiable credentials across individuals and organizations.
(A complete recording of the event is available on the EBSI-VECTOR YouTube channel)
From Infrastructure to Impact
The first session, led by Daniel Du Seuil, provided an overview of the current context of EBSI-VECTOR and its broader ecosystem. Daniel Du Seuil addressed key challenges such as fake diplomas, limited interoperability between national systems, and the administrative burden of manual verification processes in sectors like social security. He introduced verifiable credentials, user wallets, and decentralized registries as scalable and secure paradigms for digital interactions, emphasizing self-sovereign identity.
Importantly, Daniel Du Seuil positioned EBSI-VECTOR within the EU digital strategy, explicitly linking the project to the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) and framing it as a precursor and enabler of this transition. He highlighted achievements such as the development of semantic and credential models, interoperability among around 15 different wallet providers, and the creation of an open-source reference implementation of an enterprise wallet. This first session concluded with the message that the ecosystem is ready to move into the production exploration phase and organizations can begin adopting these concepts to prepare for integration with the EUDI Wallet.
From Vision to Reality: Use Cases
Following this overview, the event transitioned to a crucial part: the presentation of real-world use cases that demonstrate how EBSI-VECTOR’s conceptual and technological advances have been translated into concrete applications. These presentations showcased the impact of verifiable credentials and trusted digital registries across diverse sectors such as education, social security, and business registries.
- Education: Samuel Gómez (GATACA), Antonio González (IZERTIS), and Maria Oreshnikova (CIMEA) demonstrated the issuance and verification of digital student IDs at KU Leuven and educational vouchers at the University of Maribor. They showcased interoperability between different wallets and EBSI, and shared insights from a survey across 18 countries and 29 organizations, emphasizing needs such as legal recognition, institutional support, national coordination, and awareness-raising among users.
- Social Security: Federico Frezzolini and Elia Paggi (INAIL) presented pilots for the Portable Document A1 (PDA1) and the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), demonstrating credential issuance and verification between countries like Germany, Poland, Austria, and Italy. The use cases highlighted technical feasibility, lifecycle management, and readiness for scaling up.
- Interoperability (Education + Social Security): Camilla Locchetta (INAIL) and Antonio González (IZERTIS) presented a scenario where a Slovenian Erasmus student enrolled at a German university using educational and health credentials from different countries. The demo confirmed interoperability among three wallet implementations and validated a realistic, cross-border use case.
- Business Registries: Christian Klugow (IDunion) introduced the first pilot of verifiable credentials for legal entities and organizational digital identity. Demonstrations included credential issuance, powers of attorney, and integration with business registry systems, while also noting the need for further collaboration and standardization.
Next steps
In the final segment, the importance of interoperability, continued awareness, and the transition from pre-production to full-scale deployment were reinforced. David Santos (IZERTIS) highlighted the project team’s ongoing availability for collaboration and stressed the role of end-user demand in accelerating adoption and sustainability. The event concluded with a shared vision: a European future where individuals and organizations can exchange critical information securely, reliably, and transparently across borders.
The presentations used during the event are publicly available through these links:
The project concludes this May, but this is not the end of the EBSI and EBSI-VECTOR initiatives. Stay tuned for what’s next!
About EBSI-VECTOR
EBSI-VECTOR is a project co-funded by the European Union under the Digital Europe Programme (Grant Agreement no: 101102512). The project brings together more than 50 partners from 20 countries and runs from June 2023 to May 2025. Its aim is to unlock the potential of EBSI-enabled verifiable credentials and trusted organisation registries through cross-border use cases in sectors such as education, social security, and business registries.
