Fast and trustworthy Identity Delivery and check with ePassports leveraging Traveler privacy

Project Information

FIDELITY

Grant agreement ID: 284862

Project closed

Start date 1 February 2012

End date 31 January 2016

Funded under

• Specific Programme "Cooperation": Security

Total cost € 18 995 170,04

EU contribution € 12 013 194,00

Coordinated by

IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE
France

Objective

Significant efforts have been invested to strengthen border ID checks with biometrics Travel Documents embedding electronic chips (ePassport). However, problems appeared regarding fraud in the ePassport issuing process, citizen losing control on their personal data, difficulties in certificates management, and shortcomings in convenience, speed, and efficiency of ID checks, including the access to various remote data bases.
FIDELITY is a multi-disciplinary initiative which will analyse shortcomings and vulnerabilities in the whole ePassports life cycle and develop technical solutions and recommendations to overcome them. FIDELITY will demonstrate privacy enhanced solutions to:
-Secure issuing processes: authentication of documents, preventing impersonation fraud
-Improve ePassport security and usability: authentication processes, ID check speed, accuracy of biometrics, management of certificates, access to remote data bases, convenience of biometric sensors and inspection devices
-Better manage lost and stolen passports
-Strengthen privacy: privacy-by-design applied to all phases of the ePassport life cycle, systematic anomysation of data and separation of data streams, using novel privacy-enhancing-technologies
FIDELITY will strengthen trust and confidence of stakeholders and citizens in ePassports, provide more reliable ID checks, hence hinder criminal movements, and ease implementation of E/E records providing better analysis of migration flows.
FIDELITY solutions will be designed for backwards compatibility to be deployed progressively in the existing infrastructure. The FIDELITY consortium is composed of market-leading companies, innovative SME, renowned academia, ethical-sociological-legal experts, and end-users, which will help to define requirements and recommendations and assess results. They will, with the other partners actively promote the project results towards stakeholders and international working groups that elaborate future ePassport standards.

Fields of science

Not validated

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors

Programme(s)

• FP7-SECURITY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Security

Topic(s)

• SEC-2011.3.4-1 - Security of biometric data and travel documents – Integration Project

Call for proposal

FP7-SEC-2011-1
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Funding Scheme

CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project

Coordinator

IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE

• EU contribution: € 1 760 217,18
• Address: 2, PLACE SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN ; 92400 Courbevoie ; France
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Hauts-de-Seine
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Sandra Canton (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

Participants (21)

SELEX ELSAG SPA

Participation ended

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VIA GIACOMO PUCCINI 2 ; 16154 GENOVA
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Alberto Bianchi (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

HOGSKOLEN I GJOVIK

Norway

• EU contribution: € 1 299 680,00
• Address: TEKNOLOGIVEGEN 22 ; 2802 GJOVIK
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Kai Robert Jakobsen (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

BUNDESKRIMINALAMT

Germany

• EU contribution: € 157 020,00
• Address: Am Treptower Park 5-8 ; 12435 Berlin
• Region: Berlin › Berlin › Berlin
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Andreas Bretschneider (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

MINISTERE DE L'INTERIEUR

France

• EU contribution: € 37 277,00
• Address: Place Beauvau ; 75800 Paris
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Paris
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Jean-Luc Aminot (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

HOCHSCHULE DARMSTADT (UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES H-DA)

Germany

• EU contribution: € 726 000,00
• Address: SCHOFFERSTRASSE 3 ; 64295 Darmstadt
• Region: Hessen › Darmstadt › Darmstadt, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Ute Jochem (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV

Germany

• EU contribution: € 1 014 503,00
• Address: HANSASTRASSE 27C ; 80686 Munchen
• Region: Bayern › Oberbayern › München, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Christoph Schulte (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Italy

• EU contribution: € 811 800,00
• Address: VIA ZAMBONI 33 ; 40126 Bologna
• Region: Nord-Est › Emilia-Romagna › Bologna
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Davide Maltoni (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

THALES SIX GTS FRANCE SAS

France

• EU contribution: € 469 496,00
• Address: AVENUE DES LOUVRESSES 4 ; 92230 Gennevilliers
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Hauts-de-Seine
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Christian Fedorczak (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

SELEX ES SPA

Italy

• EU contribution: € 1 008 354,00
• Address: PIAZZA MONTE GRAPPA 4 ; 00195 Roma
• Region: Centro (IT) › Lazio › Roma
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Fabrizio Forti (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

MINISTERO DELL'INTERNO

Italy

• EU contribution: € 141 325,00
• Address: Piazza del Viminale 1 ; 00184 Rome
• Region: Centro (IT) › Lazio › Roma
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Fabio Barbato (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

Belgium

• EU contribution: € 1 136 076,00
• Address: OUDE MARKT 13 ; 3000 Leuven
• Region: Vlaams Gewest › Prov. Vlaams-Brabant › Arr. Leuven
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Sofie Heroes (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

BUNDESDRUCKEREI GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: € 1 003 112,00
• Address: KOMMANDANTENSTRASSE 18 ; 10969 Berlin
• Region: Berlin › Berlin › Berlin
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Sven Badke (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

TOTALFORSVARETS FORSKNINGSINSTITUT

Sweden

• EU contribution: € 751 282,00
• Address: Gullfossgatan 6 ; 164 90 Stockholm
• Region: Östra Sverige › Stockholm › Stockholms län
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Heléne Hultgren (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

BIOMETRIKA SRL

Italy

• EU contribution: € 313 370,00
• Address: VIA MONTE SANTO 21 ; 47100 FORLI
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Cristina Borghesi (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

KXEN SAS

France

• EU contribution: € 108 472,00
• Address: QUAI GALLIENI 25 ; 92150 SURESNES
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Remy Vintzel (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

Institute of Baltic Studies

Estonia

• EU contribution: € 218 270,00
• Address: Lai 30 ; 51005 Tartu
• Region: Eesti › Eesti › Lõuna-Eesti
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Marek Tiits (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

Linköping University

Sweden

• EU contribution: € 204 489,00
• Address: CAMPUS VALLA ; 581 83 Linköping
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Kiriazis Strantzalis (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

ARTTIC

France

• EU contribution: € 682 697,00
• Address: 39 RUE DES MATHURINS ; 75008 Paris
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Paris
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Bruno Cucinelli (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

MINISTERIE VAN BINNENLANDSE ZAKEN EN KONINKRIJKSRELATIES

Participation ended

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 68 859,82
• Address: Turfmarkt 147 ; 2511 DP The Hague
• Region: West-Nederland › Zuid-Holland › Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Ronald Belser (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

MINISTERIE VAN JUSTITIE EN VEILIGHEID

Netherlands

• EU contribution: € 100 894,00
• Address: TURFMARKT 147, 2511 DP THE HAGUE ; 2500BZ The Hague
• Region: West-Nederland › Zuid-Holland › Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage
• Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Herman Fabriek (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: PIAZZA MONTE GRAPPA 4 ; 00195 Roma
• Region: Centro (IT) › Lazio › Roma
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Alessandro Ambrosetti (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data