The main instruments of the GÉANT Community Programme are task forces (TF), special interest groups (SIG), workshops (WS) and collaborative projects (CP) as further defined below.
Task Forces are fixed-term, typically short-lived community-based collaboration activities, provided largely by volunteers who work together on specific tasks to produce tangible deliverables.
Special Interest Groups are similar constructs to task forces, in that they are also community- based and largely volunteering activities, but focus on community building, best-practice dissemination and knowledge exchange rather than on tasks and deliverables. SIGs normally have longer duration than task forces.
One-of-a-kind or series of community-based Workshops, (un)conferences or BoFs may be organised around a specific topic of interest. Workshops may lead to recommendations for establishing further follow-up activities. These may be captured in a workshop (or series of workshop) closing report.
Collaborative projects. The GCP provides a framework for a broad range of collaboration activities of interest to GÉANT, these can be small or large collaborative projects or specific components of such projects initiated by members or individuals from the community and administered/commissioned by GÉANT.
Any party within the community can put forward a request for one of these activities to be included in the GÉANT Community Programme, but the processes are slightly different for each.