GIESECKE+DEVRIENT EPAYMENTS GMBH

Their core work

Giesecke+Devrient ePayments is the digital payments and identity division of the Giesecke+Devrient group, a Munich-based security technology company specializing in secure electronic payment solutions, digital identity management, and trust services. In H2020 projects, they contribute expertise in trust infrastructures, electronic authentication, secure document verification, and AI-driven security systems. Their work spans from building global trust frameworks for digital transactions to developing secure architectures for autonomous vehicles and drones, consistently focusing on the security layer that underpins digital ecosystems.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their early H2020 period (2016-2019), G+D ePayments focused squarely on digital trust frameworks — building global trust lists, translation of trust levels across jurisdictions, mobile identity authentication, and electronic signatures (LIGHTest, FutureTrust). From 2018 onward, their focus shifted toward applying security expertise to physical-world automated systems: cyber-secure autonomous vehicles, resilient drone architectures, and document verification on the move. By 2021, they had pivoted further into distributed AI systems with an emphasis on trustability and cross-domain interoperability, combining their trust heritage with emerging AI requirements.

G+D ePayments is moving from pure digital identity/trust services toward embedding security and trustworthiness into AI and autonomous systems — a natural extension of their core competence into the fastest-growing demand area.

How they like to work

G+D ePayments operates exclusively as a participant or third party — never as coordinator — which is consistent with a large industrial company contributing specialized security components to research-driven consortia. With 226 unique partners across 30 countries in just 7 projects, they work in very large consortia (averaging 30+ partners per project), typical of ECSEL/KDT joint undertaking projects like iDev40, SECREDAS, and DAIS. This makes them an experienced, low-friction consortium partner comfortable operating in complex multi-stakeholder environments.

With 226 unique consortium partners across 30 countries, G+D ePayments has one of the broadest networks achievable from just 7 projects, largely due to participation in massive ECSEL joint undertaking consortia. Their network spans virtually all EU member states with strong connections to German, Austrian, and Dutch industrial and research ecosystems.

What sets them apart

G+D ePayments brings something rare to consortia: deep commercial experience in trust, identity, and payment security from one of Europe's oldest security technology companies (founded 1852), combined with active R&D in applying that expertise to emerging domains like autonomous systems and AI. Unlike academic partners who study trust theoretically, G+D deploys trust infrastructure at production scale for banks, governments, and telecom operators worldwide. For any consortium needing a credible industrial partner on security, identity, or trustworthy AI components, they are a strong and proven choice.

Highlights from their portfolio

• LIGHTest
  Their largest funded project (EUR 528K) and most aligned with core business — building a global trust infrastructure using DNS, directly applicable to their commercial trust services.
• DAIS
  Their most recent project signals a strategic pivot into distributed AI trustworthiness, combining their trust expertise with AI — a forward-looking positioning.
• ADACORSA
  Second-largest funding (EUR 498K) and demonstrates their expansion from digital-only security into physical-world resilient systems for drones and automated vehicles.