The Department of Information Technology hosted particpants of an international "Workshop on Polish – German Experience of e-Identity”. In the workshop participated the representatives of Fraunhofer Institut for Open Communication Systems FOKUS from Berlin, Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Mr. Jens Fromm, Ms. Marina Grigorian,  and Dr. Marian Margraf from German Federal Ministry of the Interior. In the workshop participated  also the representatives of Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration involved in eID implementation. The  main goal of the workshop was to exchange opinions and experience on electronic identification cards which will replace conventional identiftication cards in most EU countries. In Germany, the eID cards were introduced in 2010, in Poland the procedure of eID implementaion will start in 2013. The workshop was chaired by Prof. Wojciech Cellary.