Dear all, The AARC TREE Project starts today. For the next two years, the AARC Technical Revision to Enhance Effectiveness (AARC TREE) project will continue the work on the successful and globally recognised “Authentication and Authorisation for Research Collaboration” (AARC) model and its flagship outcome, the AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA), as the basis to drive the next phase of integration for research infrastructures. This in practice means: (i) expanding federated access management to integrate user-centring technologies by capturing and analysing new Authentication and Authorisation interoperability requirements (as emerging that support integration use-cases across the thematic area) and provide a landscape analysis of AAIs services (including gaps) in the RIs represented in AARC TREE (ii) Defining and validating new technical and policy guidelines for the AARC BPA that address Research Infrastructures (RIs) use-cases. This will improve the integration of RIs across thematic areas and increase the ability of RIs to support emerging needs (iii) Expanding the number of research communities that can implement the AARC BPA and/or the AARC guidelines, by providing a validation environment and toolkits. At the same time support existing AARC communities in adopting new guidelines. (iv) Bringing RIs, e-Infrastructures and relevant stakeholders together to align strategies to integrate new technologies, The AARC Kick off meeting will take place on the 11-13 of March hosted by SURF (Utrecht, the Netherlands): https://events.geant.org/event/1601/ If you are interested in joining you are more than welcome. We are planning to have remote participation for part of the meeting. We have a dedicated AARC TREE list, if somebody would like to join please let me know. Best, Licia ------ Licia Florio Senior Strategy and Policy Officer NORDUnet A/S Kastruplundgade 22, 1, DK-2770 Kastrup Cell phone: +31653928443