AARC Interoperability Framework 

The AARC Interoperability Framework comprises the AARC policy and technical guidelines as well as the Policy Development KIT (PDK). The AARC guidelines help communities and infrastructures to implement and operate an AARC BPA complaint AAI in an interoperable way.

The AARC guidelines address different topics and their development is driven by use-cases. The AARC Guidelines are endorsed by AEGIS, the AARC Engagement Group for Infrastructures, which was estabilished in 2019. AEGIS brings together representatives from research and e-infrastructures, operators of AAI that follow the AARC BPA and the AARC policy and technical team, to bridge communication gaps and make the most of common synergies. 

Upload an image (primary goal: visually attractive item to draw attention and trigger curiosity) or add a link to a YouTube/Vimeo video.

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Select one from the following list:

• Policy documents

• Technical Documents 

• Informational documents 

Select up to three from the following list:

• Academia/ Universities

• Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential

• Research and Technology Organisations

• Anybody who wishes to implement an AAI that follows the AARC BPA.

Select up to three from the following list:

• Business partners - SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Large Corporations

• Financing Expertise

• I/we wish to transfer my/our IPR to an interested party

• Business plan development

• Business Angels

• Other types of Investment

• Incubators / Accelerators

• Technology Transfer Expertise

• Investor readiness training

• Expanding to more markets /finding new customers

• Venture Capital

• Marketing Mentoring or Coaching

• Legal/IPR advice

• Investor introductions

• Executive Training

• Crowd-funding Equity

Licia's comment: to be honest none of the above. Our needs are to ensure that we have an interoperability framework for support the deployment of AARC BPA complaint AAIs. 

AARC team is looking for anyone who has deployed an AAI that follows that AARC BPA and has used or inted to use any of the AARC guidelines and/or the PDK and is willing to provide feedback. 
Organisation that using an AARC BPA complaint AAI in productions are invited to get in touch with the AARC Team. 

EC-funded project that was the main contributor

Optional – won’t be visible in the entry

GRNET, CERN, Nikhef, Jisc, SURF, KIT and a few more. 

Partners that will serve as contact points for further exploitation. 

• No

Not applicable unless there’s a startup in the works

Title of the success story collection (should at least contain material that is not created by the contributors or owners). You can add several entries to this section (click Add information)

TBA - We should get somebody for AEGIS. 

URL

All AARC results are available on Zenodo and on the AARC website 

A more detailed description of the result, freeform. 

Select up to three from the following list:

• Climate action
• Digital economy and society
• Education and training; Employment and social affairs
• Research and innovation
• Single market

Recommend that you use keywords to describe the technology, science, sector, content or nature of the result and very importantly, keywords to denote potential uses or applications of your result. Please note that, by default, you will see in your submission form all keywords linked to the main project you had chosen for declaring this result. This is to help you get started. Feel free to remove those keywords irrelevant to this result.

Select up to three from the following list:

• GOAL 4: Quality Education
• GOAL 5: Gender Equality
• GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

(Optional) Is it a Radical Innovation Breakthrough?

• No

Has your result had or do you expect it to have a significant influence on policy-making?

• Yes, but only within the R&E sector, in what concerns identity infrastructures. The AARC BPA has become the de-facto best practice document to deploy interoperable AAIs.

Title (optional, one or more links to further information)

Open access publications, presentations, etc.

Link

Result Maturity

TRL Level 9

Current Stage and Next Steps

More details/justification of the maturity.

Do you already have customers for this result?

• Yes - we do not have customers but we have organisations and initiatives that have adopted the AARC BPA. 

Number of existing customers

• 31-50

What type of customers/ users do you have?

Select all that are applicable:

• Academia

Which Business Sectors do your customers mainly come from?

Select all that are applicable:

• Education and training; Employment and social affairs
• Research and innovation
• Single market

Unique value proposition

The unique selling proposition (USP), also called the unique selling point, or the unique value proposition (UVP) in the business model canvas, is the marketing strategy of informing customers about how one's own brand or product is superior to its competitors (in addition to its other values).

Do you have a scalable business model?

For a business model to be scalable, staffing requirements should grow in a strongly sublinear fashion and/or the revenue per customer (or end-user) should remain relatively stable. Grant-based sustainability is usually not scalable, nor is consulting. Franchising, licensing and platform business models can be.

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Is your result replicable?

(Judgement call)

• Yes

Please elaborate on the Replicability

Justification for a claim for replicability.

Is your result and your business model sustainable in the long term?

Please elaborate on Sustainability

Justification to claim the solution is sustainable.

Are you targeting geographical markets?

Geographical market areas, or can also be global

What level of investment (EUR) are you currently looking for?

Levels of funding sought: if a € sum is chosen.

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