The WeBuild Consortium is a large-scale European collaboration involving over 180 organizations from 30 countries, including public authorities, private companies, academic institutions, and technology providers. It aims to design, implement, and test a trusted digital business identity ecosystem based on the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) framework, with a focus on use cases in identification, legal representation, and data sharing for business and payments.
- Over 180 participating organizations, such as 13 National Business Registers, Tax Authorities, Banks & Financial Institutions, Wallet Providers & Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs), Technology Companies & SMEs, and Academic & Research Institutions.
- Representing 30 countries across Europe.
- To strengthen the European digital business identity ecosystem.
- Develop 13 pioneering use cases across business, supply chain, and payments domains.
- Simplify economic activities in the Single Market and boost the competitiveness of European enterprises, including through European Business Wallets.
The consortium is organized around 13 use cases divided into domains:
- Business Domain (6 use cases): Examples include Know Your Supplier/Customer/Business/Due Diligence (led by Bundesanzeiger, Germany), creating company branches (led by Bolagsverket, Sweden), foreign tax declarations (led by Tax Administration, Netherlands), and issuing microcredentials (led by SUNET, Sweden).
- Supply Chain Domain (3 use cases): Such as authentication for transport (led by INGROUPE, France), trusted data sharing for data spaces (led by ILVO, Belgium), and eInvoicing (led by OpenPeppol, Belgium).
- Payments Domain (4 use cases): Including consumer banking (led by Ministry of Digitalisation, Greece), consumer payments (led by Dutch Payment Association, Netherlands), corporate banking (led by Bundesanzeiger, Germany), and corporate payments (led by State Treasury, Finland).
Additionally, there are 7 cross-use-case groups (e.g., architecture led by Swedish Agency for Digital Government, semantics led by Finnish Tax Agency) and 2 forums (Ecosystems Forum led by Izertis, Spain; Member States Advisory Forum led by Bunderministerium Fur Digitales Und Verkehr, Germany).
The work is structured into six Work Packages (WPs):
- WP1: Project Management & Coordination (led by KVK, Netherlands).
- WP2: Wallet for Business (led by ICTU, Netherlands).
- WP3: Wallet for Payments (led by ICTU, Netherlands).
- WP4: General Capabilities (led by Swedish Agency for Digital Government, Sweden).
- WP5: Forums (led by Bolagsverket, Sweden).
- WP6: Communication & Dissemination (led by Intesi Group, Italy).
- The European Commission has proposed a regulation for European Business Wallets to simplify activities for businesses of all sizes.
- The consortium launched at a General Assembly in Amsterdam on September 3-4, 2025, bringing together over 180 organizations from 26 countries (noting the slight discrepancy in country count from the main description).
- It was selected by the European Commission for the second round of Large Scale Pilots for the EU Digital Identity Wallet.
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