Canada-EU digital cooperation
Create practical pathways for trusted digital credentials, wallets and trust services to work across Canada and the European Union.
Forum mobilization
Each mission moves from executive dialogue into coordinated work, standards, implementation or verification as the opportunity matures.
Move cross-border digital cooperation from policy commitment into expert dialogue, joint testing and interoperable use cases.
Different trust systems
Credentials and trust services cross borders only when legal, technical, standards and assurance arrangements can be understood and relied upon.
Standing multistakeholder forum
DGC provides the neutral platform supporting implementation of the Canada-EU memorandum of understanding.
Joint use cases and testing
The next opportunity is participation in expert dialogue, technical exchange, joint use cases, pilots and interoperability testing.
Cross-border acceptance requires more than compatible technology
Canada and the European Union are developing trusted digital credentials, wallets and trust services within different legal, institutional and standards environments.
Interoperability depends on shared understanding of requirements, evidence, assurance, privacy, governance and the conditions under which one jurisdiction can rely on another.
- Different legislative and policy approaches
- Different credential, wallet and trust-service architectures
- Unclear assurance and evidence-recognition pathways
- Need for practical testing before broader reliance or mutual recognition
Provide the forum for sustained implementation
DGC serves as a standing, non-binding multistakeholder platform supporting work under the Canada–EU Digital Partnership.
Sustain strategic dialogue
Bring European and Canadian public authorities together with senior ecosystem leaders to identify priorities and guide cooperation.
Enable technical exchange
Create structured dialogue among policy, technical, standards, legal and assurance experts.
Work through common requirements
Compare standards and legislative approaches and identify pathways to interoperability and possible mutual recognition.
Test cross-border use cases
Support joint use cases, pilot projects and testing that demonstrate whether credentials and trust services work in practice.
A cross-sector mission
The mission requires the authorities and organizations that issue, operate, regulate, assess and rely on digital credentials and trust services.
Public authorities
The European Commission, Government of Canada and relevant provincial, territorial and European authorities.
Credential and wallet providers
Technology providers and operators responsible for issuing, holding and presenting trusted credentials.
Trust service providers
Organizations providing signatures, seals, certificates, validation and related trust services.
Standards and assurance
Standards organizations, conformity assessment bodies, auditors and accreditation stakeholders.
Regulated sectors
Finance, education, health, travel, professional services and public services that may rely on cross-border credentials.
Academic and civil society
Experts contributing research, rights, privacy, accessibility and public-interest perspectives.
A dedicated implementation forum has been established
The work now has an institutional home and a defined set of cooperation mechanisms.
DGC designated as the standing forum
DGC was selected to support implementation of the memorandum through a neutral, non-binding multistakeholder platform.
Dialogue, exchange and testing
The forum is intended to support regular expert dialogue, information exchange, joint testing and discussion of interoperability and mutual-recognition pathways.
Mobilize participants and use cases
The immediate task is to organize technical and policy participation and identify practical cross-border pilots.
Bring a use case, technical capability or assurance perspective
Organizations can register interest in expert workshops, standards-interoperability discussions, joint use cases, pilot projects and technical testing under the forum.
Credential, wallet, trust-service, standards and regulated-sector organizations
Participation is especially relevant to public authorities, technology and trust-service providers, standards and conformity assessment bodies, and sectors with cross-border credential needs.