The objective of this Task task is to reach out to targeted research user communities and libraries to promote the use of federated access and the results from AARC/AARC2. The Task will adopt two different approaches:
- Outreach – Continue the outreach campaign started in AARC to optimise the uptake of federation identity, reaching out to communities that have not been approached during the two years of AARC. Liaising with other projects/communities and using existing relationships will facilitate the impact of the outreach work done in this Task.
- Communication – Facilitate the interaction and communication among the communities and between the communities and the infrastructures by means of two delivery platforms:
- The Community Engagement Forum – A forum for engaging with user communities. AARC2 will offer training to this group, open to anybody who is interested, and will promote AARC and AARC2 results to raise awareness. The group will also provide the right audience for presenting and receiving feedback on the progress of the pilots mapping each of the proposed use-cases.
- The AARC Engagement Group for Infrastructures (AEGIS) – The goal of the virtual Competence Centre is to handle communication with infrastructures to ensure that all key parties share the same vision and the same information about AARC2 and developments in the trust and identity area. The role of NA2 is to coordinate the effort and the results provided by all other Activities. NA2 will not provide any technical effort within the Competence Centre that requires expertise the Activity does not possess.
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via training.
The task will offer different types of training focusing on the needs of the end-user communities:
- Basic training – The Task will analyse the gaps in knowledge of user communities that have not deployed an identity federation or that have minimal exposure to the concept of federated identity management in order to provide basic support and increase the dissemination of Federation 101.
- Advanced training – The Task will analyse the needs of targeted user communities that are already running a federation but that use different technologies and that therefore present different requirements in terms of training. Based on the findings it will be possible to reuse the material created in AARC but in a more effective way.
- Training on AARC results – Training on the final results of AARC1 and the AARC2 pilots and policy activities will in collaboration with other tasks in the project.
The training process and approach
The activities related to training are organized as follows:
- 2.1 Training Process - This page describes the process to be followed when new trainings are selected, prioritized, developed and executed.
- 2.2 Learning Needs Analysis - This page describes the way training needs will be elicited.
- 2.3 Training for Identity Providers - This page describes the training developed to support providers of identities
- 2.4 Training for Resource and Service Providers - This page describes the training developed to support provders of services
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