E-SENS project (european e-Services simple and interconnected)

The project e-SENS is a joint initiative of more than 100 institutions belonging to 20 european countries that responded to the convening of the year 2012 for the competitiveness and innovation programme of the european commission. Its aim is to facilitate access to public services of the various eu countries by citizens of any country in europe. Provide public services of this cross-border perspective allows us to move towards Digital single market, one of the major strategic challenges of the european Union.

In particular e-SENS will provide basic services to enable cross-border public services through the Internet, such as electronic identity, digital signatures, electronic exchange of documents, etc.

It will draw upon existing solutions in member states and in the previous european projects as e-CODEX (in the area of justice), epSOS (in the area of health), SPOCS (in the business environment), STORK (in the area of electronic identity) and PEPPOL (in the area of electronic contracting), with a view to making a consolidation of existing solutions and propose a Single infrastructure to be used by countries and the european commission.

Basic services proposed by eSENS will be implemented in different pilots in areas such as justice, health, starting a business or employment.

Participation of spain

Spain participates in the project through the ministry of finance and Public Service, the ministry of health, social services and equality and the ministry of justice.

Key data:

• Coordinator of the project:  Ministerio de Justicia de la región de Renania del Norte-Westfalia, Alemania
• Participants: Austria, República Checa, Dinamarca, Estonia, Francia, Alemania, Grecia, Irlanda, Italia, Luxemburgo, Holanda, Noruega, Polonia, Portugal, Rumanía, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, España, Suecia, Turquía, OpenPEPPOL, ETSI
• Date of commencement of project: 1 april 2013
• Duration: 36 months
• Budget: 27 M €(13.5 M €funded by the european commission)
• Agenda: Programme of support to information and communication technologies under the framework programme for Innovation and competitiveness (CIP).

The project White-paper

• e-SENS _ white _ paper _ general _ 01

For more information:

• E-SENS website: www.esens.eu
• CIP: http://ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm
• Contact: esens.info@lists.esens.eu