- General Impact of the EUDIW in the Education and Research Sectors
Impact on the Education Sector | Impact on the Research Sector |
Verifiable Credentials & Mobility: Students, as well as training professionals can store and present verified diplomas, certificates, and student IDs across different EU countries. The EUDIW simplifies applications for further study, continuous training or employment. | Support for Research Mobility: The EUDIW simplifies the recognition of research qualifications and permits, helping to overcome administrative processes burdens for cross-border research projects and mobility. |
Administrative Efficiency: Institutions can verify credentials (including micro-credentials) without manual, paper-based processes, speeding up enrolment and onboarding. | Trusted Identity Management: By integrating with systems like eduGAIN, the EUDIW provides a secure, privacy-preserving way to manage researcher identities, enhancing cross-national research collaboration. |
Secure Access to Services: The EUDIW facilitates seamless access to educational platforms, library services, and student discounts across the EU. The EUDIW can facilitate secure access to cross-national teaching. | Seamless Access to research resources: Researchers can use the EUDIW to internationally access research infrastructure, digital repositories, and collaboration platforms. |
Standardisation: The Implementing Acts
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Some challenges related to the application of the specific EUDIW Implementing Acts adopted in 2024/2025 are:
Article 5a: PID & EAA (2024/2977)
Challenges due to unclear distinction between cases where a relying party is legally required to identify wallet users and other scenarios where such identification is optional.
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Article 5a: Protocols and Interfaces (2024/2982)
Interoperability challenges: connectors needed to interact with the EUDIW versions of the 27 EU Member States.
Article 5a: Integrity and Core Functionalities (2024/2979)
Challenges regarding how/how often should PID/EAA providers monitor the revocation of the EUDIW.
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Challenges specifying who should offer backup and recovery of data objects for cases of losing the wallet.
Electronic Attestations of Attributes (2025/1569)
Challenges Managing the versioning: Different temporality of identity attributes and revocation (education, research, academy membership).
Article 7 (2): Challenges due to uncertainty about who can make the request for including or modifying an attribute in the European catalogue of attributes.
Security Breaches (2025/847)
Challenge of providing effective information to relying parties and users in case of identity loss.
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