The EOSC-ENTRUST project has published its second policy brief, highlighting the federation and governance approaches needed to create a trustworthy research infrastructure on top of the interoperable network of Trusted Research Environments (TREs).
The brief presents four recommendations to support the development of a sustainable and trustworthy TRE ecosystem in Europe:
- Adopt a federated approach and plan for a federation-of-federations
- Design governance models alongside infrastructure, not afterwards
- Invest in accreditation, including both training and assessment, to create trust
- Consider co-locating major data and compute infrastructure investments
Providing researchers with access to sensitive data enables new research, but it requires investment in an interoperable network of TREs. EOSC-ENTRUST calls on policymakers and funders to embrace the federation model for trusted research and to support it through investment, advocacy and public engagement.
The full policy brief is available on Zenodo.
Posted: 11 March 2026
