partners:
  - id: TUE
    name: "Eindhoven University of Technology"
    contact: ""
    logo: images/logo-tue.svg
    url: https://www.tue.nl
    role: "The team of Eindhoven University of Technology consists of Kathrin Hövelmanns, Andreas Hülsing, Tanja Lange, and Heloise Vieira. 
    They coordinate the consortium and their work focuses on research and applications of cryptology."
    statement: ""
  - id: GLS
    name: "GLS Bank"
    contact: "Leo Wittmann"
    logo: images/logo-GlsBank.svg
    url: https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/taler
    role: "-- TBD --"
    statement: "-- TBD --"
  - id: CBG
    name: "Code Blau GmbH"
    contact: "Özgür Kesim"
    logo: images/logo-codeblau.svg
    url: https://www.codeblau.de
    role: "Code Blau GmbH is a boutique IT-security consulting firm from Berlin,
    Germany, established in 1999. We help GNU Taler to be safe and secure when
    used by citizens, merchants and payment service providers."
    statement: "We are excited to be part of this consortium and are looking
    forward to help deploy GNU Taler in the Eurozone and our role as auditor of
    the first large-scale instantiation of GNU Taler."
  - id: VV
    name: "VisualVest"
    contact: "-- TBD --"
    logo: images/logo-visualvest.svg
    url: https://www.visualvest.de
    role: "-- TBD --"
    statement: "-- TBD --"
  - id: TSYS
    name: "Taler Systems S.A."
    contact: "Dr. Florian Dold"
    logo: images/logo-TalerSystems.svg
    url: https://taler-systems.com
    role: "Taler Systems SA will sustain the development of the core GNU Taler technology
    and assist all partners with their respective integration efforts."
    statement: "This consortium offers the perfect opportunity to widely deploy GNU Taler
    in Europe and seed the global adoption of a payment system respecting informational
    self-determination."
  - id: PS
    name: "petites singularités"
    contact: "Jean-Michel Massibot"
    logo: images/logo-ps.svg
    url: https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/taler
    role: "Petites singularités operates the TALER Integration Community Hub to facilitate
    socially inclusive adoption of NGI payment technology GNU Taler, notably by stakeholders
    from the independent book sector, e-Health sector (with eSeniors), and the free
    software ICT supply chain (with NLnet)."
    statement: "GNU Taler is the only serious candidate alternative to existing global
    market payment solutions and, contrary to them, GNU Taler supports EU values:
    it's free software implementing open standards to guarantee a fair, transparent
    and sovereign technology; it provides auditable, therefore taxable sales, while
    preserving anonymity of the buyer."
  - id: ESEN
    name: "E-Seniors Association"
    contact: "-- TBD --"
    logo: images/logo-esen.svg
    url: https://www.eseniors.eu
    role: "ESEN fights e-exclusion by offering ICT training to seniors (people aged 55 and over) to bridge the digital gap between generations and foster seniors’ social participation."
    statement: "ESEN’s main focus is on representing end-users and ensuring that technical solutions meet the needs of end-users, especially senior citizens."
  - id: HODI
    name: "Homo Digitalis"
    contact: "Eleftherios Chelioudakis"
    logo: images/logo-HomoDigitalis.svg
    url: https://www.homodigitalis.gr
    role: "Homo Digitalis is a Greek Civil Society Organization that focuses on the protection and promotion of human rights in the digital age, member of the EDRi network."
    statement: "Homo Digitalis, as a digital rights CSO, is extremely excited to participate
    in this project, working shoulder to shoulder with an amazing group of stakeholders
    to promote a new electronic privacy-preserving payment system that benefits European
    citizens, merchants, and banks."
  - id: NLnet
    name: "Stichting NLnet"
    contact: "-- TBD --"
    logo: images/logo-nlnet.svg
    url: https://nlnet.nl
    role: "-- TBD --"
    statement: "-- TBD --"
  - id: MAG
    name: "MagNet Bank"
    contact: "-- TBD --"
    logo: images/logo-MagNetBank.svg
    url: https://www.magnetbank.hu
    role: "-- TBD --"
    statement: "-- TBD --"
  - id: BFH
    name: "Bern University of Applied Sciences"
    contact: "Prof. Dr. Christian Grothoff"
    logo: images/logo-bfh.svg
    url: https://ti.bfh.ch
    role: "Bern University of Applied Sciences has extensive experience in the operation,
    development and enhancement of software and hardware for the GNU Taler payment system
    and can therefore also manufacture needed hardware."
    statement: "BFH is excited to educate the next generation of developers about the future of digital payments."