Find the right iSHARE membership for you
Why use the iSHARE Trust Framework?
Without shared governance standards, use cases operate in silos and cross-sector collaboration cannot reach its full value. The iSHARE Trust Framework lets organisations verify each other directly and access data at the source, across ecosystems, sectors and borders.
The framework provides: schemas and base rules for governance (roles, agreements and data rights), compliance (certification, audit and conformance) and credentials (W3C Verifiable Credentials), comprehensive list of data licences and harmonised API specifications.
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The goal is empowering data rights holders. They decide who may access their data, for what purpose and on what terms.Â
As a non-profit foundation, iSHARE operates as a neutral Scheme Owner. It defines the standards and certifies organisations, while certified parties build, implement and issue. The Foundation’s focus is on adoption, never competing for your commercial revenue.
What the Framework guarantees
Trust & Assurance
Standardised identity validation and legal agreements that give access to data binding force.
Data Rights & Compliance
Access conditions set for the data.Â
Conformity with EU regulation
Aligns with EU Data Act, GDPR, DSSC (Data Spaces Support Centre) and other Frameworks.
Interoperability across sectors and borders
Connect and collaborate across systems, sectors and borders: energy grids, emission data reporting, supply chains, etc.
Certified Party
What we offer
Issue all credential types: One accreditation to issue Data Rights, Framework Compliance, Dataspace Participant and Party ID Credentials (W3C VC 2.0).
Be trusted by every verifier: Get listed on the Trusted Issuers List, so any verifier in the growing iSHARE network can validate your credentials directly.
Serve any sector: Offer trusted identification, authorisation and credential services to collaborations in any sector — supply chains, energy, mobility, data spaces.
Integrate fast: Test and deploy your setup using the test environments and reference implementations.
What you gain
Growing demand: iSHARE asks every collaboration under the framework to work with more than one certified issuer.
A scheme owner that does not compete: Partner with a neutral, non-profit scheme owner that certifies issuers rather than competing with them.
New revenue streams: Build a recurring commercial model by offering credential services to expanding networks.
Tools and working groups: Early access to technical support, new credential types and schema working groups.
For (cloud) service providers.
Data Space
What we offer
Govern your collaboration: Set up and run a trusted ecosystem on the iSHARE Trust Framework, shaped to your own rules and needs.
Streamline onboarding: Use ready-made legal terms and accession agreements to onboard participants quickly.
Enforce compliance: Control roles, credentials and compliance procedures across your network.
Scale across borders: Give participants cross-border and cross-sector access to data at the source, with full interoperability.
What you gain
DSSC-aligned guidance: Advice, workshops and templates aligned with the DSSC Blueprint and EU standards.
Testing & technical tools: Access to test environments, reference implementations and setup support.
Governance seats: Voting rights on the Council of Participants and the Change Advisory Board.
Issuer role included: Your Authority is certified as issuer of, and authority for, your data space’s membership credential (Dataspace Participant Credential) — included in your membership.
For those wanting to operate a Data Space.
Hub
What you gain
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Ready-made educational materials and onboarding resources to share with your community
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Direct line to iSHARE’s ecosystem-building expertise and its network of certified parties and collaborations across sectors
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Positioning as a forward-looking hub connected to a European trust framework and the wider landscape of trusted data access
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Opportunities to fast-track promising members of your community into iSHARE-based collaborations
For incubators, accelerators, industry hub’s, tech communities.
Mission Partner
What you gain
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Recognition as an official supporter of the Foundation’s mission: trusted access to data, with data rights holders in control.
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Ability to provide input on framework direction from a non-operational, mission-aligned perspective.
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Access to the iSHARE community, events, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
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Early visibility into framework developments and roadmap direction.
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A platform to connect with certified parties, data space authorities and other mission-aligned organisations.
For those wanting to support the iSHARE mission.
What iSHARE adoption saves you
- Legal & drafting costs: Skip the drafting: ready-to-use agreements and the iSHARE Licence library, reviewed once for everyone.
- Schema design & software overhead: Reuse the governance, compliance and credential schemas (W3C VC 2.0) and the reference implementations instead of designing your own.
- Governance setup: Adopt proven onboarding, audit and security procedures instead of building them from scratch.
- Custom integration expenses: One harmonised way to prove identity and access rights replaces custom trust and authorisation integrations per partner.
