Impact Funding Resources
As part of the preparations for the possible issuance of a digital euro, the ECB is establishing an innovation platform to collaborate with stakeholders. These may include small and large merchants, banks, other payment service providers, fintech companies, financial institutions, research institutes, technical experts and universities. The main goals of the partnerships are to: • demonstrate how “conditional payments” could be implemented on a technical level (i.e. between a simulated digital euro back-end and a front-end provider)[1]; • provide the opportunity for participants to interact with simulated digital euro interfaces[2]; • explore additional use cases, ideas and visions that stakeholders may have for the digital euro. Pioneer partnerships • Pioneers will test how conditional payments could look like on a simulated technical infrastructure of a digital euro.
End Date29 Nov 2024 Funding Resource TypePartnerships
Funding ProviderEuropean Central Bank
Partnerships
European Central Bank
The main goals of the partnerships are to:
• demonstrate how “conditional payments” could be implemented on a technical level (i.e. between a simulated digital euro back-end and a front-end provider)[1];
• provide the opportunity for participants to interact with simulated digital euro interfaces[2];
• explore additional use cases, ideas and visions that stakeholders may have for the digital euro.
Pioneer partnerships
• Pioneers will test how conditional payments could look like on a simulated technical infrastructure of a digital euro.
The ECB encourages all interested stakeholders to contribute. The partnerships will focus on a theoretical investigation of use cases for the digital euro and its social impact.
The most coherent applications that fit into the digital euro framework and have innovative potential will be selected for half-day workshops with the ECB digital euro project team.
Every vision should outline how a concrete problem is solved by the digital euro or describe a challenge that has yet to be addressed. Applicants are expected to base their ideas on publicly available information on the digital euro.
