Making stronger identity for EU citizens

ID fraud and ID theft have become a major concern nowadays. Today society and market requires a way to identify users univocally and secured, especially in online and remote environments. The ID fraud has increased in the last years. Additionally, European Union presents a unique situation: several member states, several ways to identify people and moreover the citizens can move from one member state (MS) to other with those identification means. These leads to a complex situation where forgeries, fraud and theft are quite common. EKSISTENZ project is a European founded project which will try to deal with this situation and propose some tools to make the European Union citizen identities stronger. In this paper we present this project, introducing the situation, the existing vulnerabilities in the identification/recognition process and how the tools EKSISTENZ pretends to develop will overcome them.