OREANDA-NEWS. August 26, 2014. SEB will start issuing a new type of bank card, ISIC Opilane, which, like the other ISIC cards, will have a contactless chip, expanding the options for its use.

The ISIC Opilane card is used by tens of thousands of students throughout Estonia to prove their student status, with the addition of the contactless chip expanding options for the use of the SEB ISIC Opilane bank card. Similarly to the Estonian student identification card and the ISIC student identification card issued by the Federation of Estonian Student Unions (EUL), going forward the ISIC Opilane card issued by SEB can also substitute for the Uhiskaart or, for example, for the library or as the access card of a school. Furthermore, schools can use these student cards based on a single standard and issued by EUL or SEB to conveniently keep track of meals in school canteens. The SEB SIC Tudeng and ITIC Opetaja bank cards have contactless chips, having thus had the Uhiskaart feature already since early 2013.

All users of an ISIC Opilane card with the MasterCard logo can register their bank card on the United Tickets website for use as an Uhiskaart. You can purchase and add tickets to a card by using your personal identification code at the website www.pilet.ee, over the mobile phone or at points of sale. You can purchase and add personalised public transport tickets (season tickets) with various terms of validity to a card, and also prove your entitlement to travel concessions (such as an entitlement to free travel).

Any ISIC Opilane card with the VISA logo issued before the autumn of 2014 has no contactless chip and accordingly cannot be used on public transport.