SafeTravellers: Secure and Frictionless Identity for EU and Third Country National Citizenscore
SafeTravellers · Horizon Europe grant · 2024-01-01–2026-12-31
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About the data
Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL3-2022-BM-01 · scheme HORIZON-IA · topic HORIZON-CL3-2022-BM-01-02. CORDIS record →
Objective
Identity theft is rapidly expanding, causing substantial financial loss to millions of people all around the world. This invisible crime is also widespread across EU countries, where a growing number of citizens is targeted by sophisticated fraudulent attacks each year, both offline and online. 56% of Europeans have experienced at least one type of fraud in the last two years. European security officials speak of an “epidemic” created by a spike in demand from asylum-seekers and from terrorists carrying counterfeit documents to enter the EU. Security documents are increasingly being counterfeited or tampered with by criminals to facilitate transnational crime. The continued vulnerability of different types of identity and travel documents makes it extremely difficult to combat this problem. SafeTravellers value proposition aims at a) strengthening the security at the borders, b) improving the productivity of the Border Authorities and LEAs by providing them with the appropriate tools to combat identity fraud at the hardware, identity and travel document, and biometrics level, while c) offering a frictionless border crossing experience for EU/TCN citizens as they will not have to stop at the border checkpoints. SafeTravellers is both proposing a new way of citizen identification based on multiple biometrics instead of the problematic identity document, as well as an enhancement of the current way of identity verification at the borders through a set of tools that will detect attacks at the biometric hardware, identity and travel document fraud and attempts to falsify biometrics. The proposed solution is GDPR compliant and introduces various privacy-preserving mechanisms to safeguard the citizens' rights. Through the distributed European Multi-Biometric Data Space offered by SafeTravellers, each Member State will keep in its jurisdiction the personal data of its country nationals while allowing cross-border identity checks without transferring or revealing any biometric data.
Beneficiaries (24)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INOV INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES INOVACAO | PT | coordinator | €458,758 | |
| GIOUMPITEK MELETI SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIISI KAI POLISI ERGON PLIROFORIKIS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS | EL | participant | €500,523 | Yes |
| COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES | FR | participant | €391,823 | |
| AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH | AT | participant | €341,819 | |
| VISION BOX - SOLUCOES DE VISAO PORCOMPUTADOR SA | PT | participant | €338,393 | Yes |
| IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY GERMANYAG | DE | participant | €337,208 | |
| NETCOMPANY S.A. | LU | participant | €323,669 | |
| ASCORA GMBH | DE | participant | €314,733 | Yes |
| IN SMART IDENTITY FRANCE | FR | participant | €304,342 | |
| IPROOV NETHERLANDS B.V. | NL | participant | €289,821 | Yes |
| QUADIBLE GREECE I.K.E. | EL | participant | €264,435 | Yes |
| ARTHUR'S LEGAL BV | NL | participant | €250,688 | Yes |
| EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT & SEAPORT POLICE | NL | participant | €248,321 | |
| EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR BIOMETRICS | NL | participant | €235,121 | |
| VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL | BE | participant | €217,938 | |
| SISAMINISTERIO (SM) | FI | participant | €210,944 | |
| UNION INTERNATIONALE DES CHEMINS DE FER | FR | participant | €192,811 | Yes |
| EASC EV | DE | participant | €190,031 | |
| MATHEMA SRL | IT | participant | €188,278 | Yes |
| IANUS TECHNOLOGIES LTD | CY | participant | €145,968 | Yes |
| MINISTERSTVO VNUTRA SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY | SK | participant | €126,325 | |
| Ministerio da Justica | PT | participant | €115,445 | |
| INSPECTORATUL GENERAL AL POLITIEI DE FRONTIERA | RO | participant | €93,686 | |
| IDEMIA FRANCE | FR | thirdParty | €0 |
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