Scientific research is at the heart of every European University. Nowadays, such research is no longer an isolated activity. With the capabilities of the internet to connect not only people but also resources, sciences have evolved into e-Science where individual participants in an experiment, paper collaboration or users of specific Research Infrastructures come together from a wide range of countries and organisations.

Authentication and authorisation infrastructures (AAI) are required to regulate who can gain access to resources in such distributed environments. While federated identity and eduGAIN go a long way to enabling such access policies, in many cases, research groups of all sizes need additional specialised infrastructure built on top of eduGAIN to manage group and authorisation information, and also to integrate users from a wide range of environment, connecting them to their services, and also to other generic services such as storage and compute provided by any eInfrastructure provider or even commercial entity.

eduTEAMS is being designed and piloted by GÉANT in two variants to meet those needs:

Basic service:

• includes Membership management, Identity Hub for non eduGAIN users, Basic Groups, and Basic Provisioning;
• allows end users of eduGAIN members to be able to login;
• has infrastructure operation provided by GÉANT 
• is offered to users at no additional cost.

Advanced service:

• includes the same features as  the basic offering, plus Advanced Groups, Attribute Management, Advanced (de-)Provisioning, SP proxy, Attribute Aggregation;