The following resources were prepared to support a basic training course to raise awareness of AAI and Federations with the GÉANT environment for non-technical people within the company that worked with customers and needed more grounding in the concepts.  The course was divided into five sections.

Course ElementContents
AAI Training OutlineBreakdown of Schedule
Part One: AAI Fundamentals
What is Federated Identity Management?
What is a Federation?
Full mesh example (SWITCHaai)
Hub and spoke federation example
Other examples
What is Interfederation?
eduGAIN example
Quiz / Exercises
Part Two: Under The Hood
Technical aspects of SAML based Identity Federations
Metadata, SAML, Deployment  Profiles, Attributes, Typical ecosystem of a federation
Quiz / Exercises
Part Three: Research Community Requirements

FIM4Paper and Requirements
AAA Study and Requirements
Quiz / Exercises

Part Four: NREN Identity StrategyCurrent approach by NRENs in Europe (and wider)
Part Five: Supply Chain
LoA
Attribute release
Attribute aggregation
Monitoring/Accounting
Quiz / Exercises
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