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Connecting Customers & Businesses Through Intuitive ID Ecosystems
We create user-friendly, ID ecosystems with added value for end customers & business partners. And yes, we also issue more than a million student IDs (ISIC cards) around the world!
At a glance
GTS Alive activities center around student status verification, and ongoing development of digital identity in a mobile solution, especially for the academic sector.
Thanks to our large user base and market leading digital solutions we can provide students, teachers and youth with hundreds of tailor made offers and deliver to our partners a direct channel to build a relationship with an emerging customer segment.
4 continents
in our network
offering 3K offers
institutions
We operate on 17 markets and territories
Germany and Austria
Extending our reach within the European academic segment has been one of our priorities over the last few years. With the addition of both Germany and Austria (2022), we have not only expanded to include two major European countries, but also added more than 150,000 additional cardholders to our portfolio.
The success in Austria is largely due to a long-term relationship with Erste bank that co-brands almost 100,000 cards across the country, and we are seeing solid growth in many new academic partnerships in Germany.
The majority of our ID cards issued in Germany are digital, whilst in Austria, they remain as physical payment cards.
Czech Republic
GTS (CR) launched its operation in 2001 and has reached more than 95% coverage of the ISIC within the tertiary level student community. In addition, the Czech operation has contracted and issues student ID cards in more than 1,500 schools. The company has been recognized amongst the top ISIC issuing countries since its inception & has received the Global No. 1 Issuer Award from the ISIC Association on 10 occasions since 2002.
Since 2018, the ISIC has been included into the national legislation as an official student verification document for nationwide public transport. All student ID cards issued in Czechia contain contactless chip technology (RFID). A digital transition is in place to transform all plastics to a newly developed mobile platform and digital ID proposition. The new mobile platform and digital solution also includes an access and attendance solution for schools and is easily integrated into other existing solutions for school cafeterias, etc.
Spain
GTS has been active in Spain though a daughter company, ViaJoven since 2014.
ISIC and ITIC cards are issued through over 100 academic co-branded relationships in the country, whereby ViaJoven delivers a growing number of student ID cards. For the last few years, ViaJoven has worked with Santander by integrating the digital ISIC into the Universidades program for Spanish tertiary institutions. Most of the cards issued in Spain are digital.
Romania
GTS Alive has been active in Romania since 2012, currently the largest partnership is a co-branded debit product with BRD bank (member of Societé General group), one of the largest retail banks in the country who are issuing well in excess of 150,000 cards annually.
The ISIC and ITIC are also issued directly through several Universities including the University of Bucharest, Danubius Galati, and the University of Architecture in Bucharest.
The GTS group also holds the exclusive license for the development and distribution of the EYCA in Romania. In 2020, in cooperation with Bucharest City Hall, GTS launched the Bucharest Youth Card project.
Morocco
North Africa represents GTS’s latest opportunity and expansion into one of the region’s most exciting and up and coming markets (2022). Already within just the first eighteen months of operation, our local entity, Education Services Africa (ESA) has managed to sign a co-brand agreement with Credit agricole du Maroc, as well as several other distribution agreements with academic and youth focused organisations. In this short period, ESA has managed to issue several thousand digital ID cards to the local student and youth community.
Bulgaria
GTS has been active in Bulgaria since 2012, and as in Romania, have a strong working relationship with one of the largest retail banks in the country, DSK (part of the OTP group). Multiple triple co-branded partnerships with several Universities and colleges are in place, leading to issuance of tens of thousands of ID cards across the student segment.
In Bulgaria GTS also holds the exclusive license for the development and distribution of the EYC, and additionally, our local operation is the appointed Erasmus representative to work with assisting with placements for international students within the EU.
The Middle East
GTS has been active in Dubai since 2013, and recently expanded its presence in the region to include Oman, Bahrain,Kuwait and Qatar in 2022.
A strategic partnership issuing co-branded ISIC cards has been in place with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (a top 3 consumer bank in the UAE) since 2015. More recently partnerships with ABK (Kuwait) and Sohar Islamic Bank (Oman) have launched.
GTS additionally has several academic co-brand relationships in place including the University of Sharjah and AjmanUniversity and is currently in the process of expanding across the GCC and have several exciting, new relationships for growth in the pipeline.
Almost all cards issued in GCC are digital.
India
GTS has been active in India since 2011 through its subsidiary STIC Youth Travels (STIC). STIC has developed contractual relationships with three of the largest high street banking establishments.
STIC has launched My VAL-U, a white labeled consumer App (designed for B2B2C) and the new banking program. It is now available and promoted across India by the local STIC team and the respective bank’s sales teams.
In May of 2023, STIC opened its brand new 4,000+ sq. ft oce in Gurugram. With the Indian student study abroad market expected to exceed 2million participants in 2024, and no less than 40 million domestic tertiary students, the Indian market is set to become a key focus area of the GTS Alive Group moving forward.
Most cards issued in India are digital.
Australia and New Zealand
As two of the world’s most interesting and attractive destinations for international study and youth travel, both New Zealand and Australia are two recent additions to the GTS family (2021).
Significant development in the local value proposition and expansion of numerous ID card issuing partnerships across both territories is priming the region for strong growth over the coming years.
Most of our ID cards issued in Australia and New Zealand are digital.
Wide range of B2B & B2C digital products
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