euCONSENT consortium awarded European Commission funding to create a child rights’ centred cross-border system for online age verification and parental consent.
Athens, 21 April 2021
In a bold step towards enabling stronger regulatory online protection for European children, a consortium of twelve of the continent’s leading academic institutions, NGOs and technology providers has been awarded EU funding to design, deliver and pilot a new Europe-wide system. This solution will allow service providers to verify the age of their users to protect them from harmful content, and will ensure that younger children have parental consent before they share personal data. The Age Verification Providers Association is a leading member of the team that will deliver this system.
euCONSENT is a European Commission project under the call: “Outline and trial an infrastructure dedicated to the implementation of child rights and protection mechanisms in the online domain based on the GDPR and other existing EU legislation relevant for the child within the online domain”.
The objective of this project, initiated by the European Parliament, is to demonstrate an interoperable technical infrastructure dedicated to the implementation of child protection mechanisms (such as age verification) and parental consent mechanisms as required by relevant EU legislation (such as the Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).
The euCONSENT solution will be designed with help from children and young people and under the guidance of the continent’s leading academic experts, NGOs and other key stakeholders in child rights and online safety. EU Kids Online, Eurochild and COFACE – FAMILIES EUROPE, amongst others, will provide regular input to the work of the project team, which will be advised by an expert panel, chaired by John Carr OBE, one of the world’s leading authorities on children’s and young people’s use of the internet and digital technologies.
The new system will then be used during a pilot phase by over 1,500 children, young people and parents from at least three EU Member States. Users’ experience will be independently evaluated to provide convincing evidence for this solution to be adopted across the EU, with hundreds of Europe’s kids already positioned as its most enthusiastic advocates to their peers, their parents and EU policymakers.
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About the euCONSENT consortium
The euCONSENT project will start immediately and runs for 18 months. It will be delivered by a consortium of twelve European organisations:
- Upcom (Greece)
- Age Check Certification Services Ltd (UK)
- Jusprog (Germany)
- AGEify Ltd (Cyprus)
- Checktech Service (Germany)
- Lisal Expert (Romania)
- Revealing Reality (UK)
- Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands)
- Aston University (UK)
- London School of Economics And Political Science (UK)
- The Age Verification Providers Association (Global)
- Digie B.V. (Belgium)
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