2025-2027 Strategy
Trust and Identity services are a keystone enabling technology for a range of research and education initiatives across Europe and Worldwide.
The key principle of this strategy is to ensure that the GÉANT community continues to be the trusted provider for the T&I services in R&E. The Trust and Identity services delivered by GÉANT, in collaboration with National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), are expected to continue working towards an omnipresent Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) for the Research and Education community. Mirroring the comprehensive reach of network provision, the AAI will be a cornerstone of the GÉANT programme, ensuring it is accessible to every user within the academic and research sphere in Europe. It will provide a pervasive, secure, interoperable and sustainable Trust Fabric, seamlessly integrated with the technological advancements, that supports and empowers a wide array of scholarly and research activities, fostering collaboration and innovation across Europe and beyond.
eduGAIN will be delivering a global Trust Fabric for Research and Education, continuing to provide the cornerstone for seamless federated access across institutions and acting as the trust mortar for the EUDI Wallets, while also laying a secure foundation for the emerging Data Spaces, ensuring robust and
privacy-preserving scholarly and research collaborations.
This document presents the strategic plan for the GÉANT Trust and Identity (T&I) area for the period. 2025 - 2027. This strategy builds upon the briefing paper shared at the 2023 T&I Chief Technology Officer (CTO) workshop and incorporates feedback from the community. Its purpose is to steer the development of the GN5-2 program and influence various other projects and initiatives under GÉANT.
The final document can be downloaded here.