What we do

Trustflows is a community of practitioners who design, govern, or implement data exchanges between organisations. We work to make those exchanges trustworthy, interoperable, and legally compliant.

At events in and around Ghent and Flanders, members bring concrete use cases, demonstrate implementations, compare technical and governance choices, and discuss reusable patterns and open-source components.

Join us to get feedback on a use case, learn from other implementations, or meet your next employee, employer, or project partner.

Want to join the community?

• Join the mailing list
• Read throught the charter
• Join an event

Upcoming events

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We organise events in Ghent in collaboration with government, industry, and academia, to together come to common and interoperability implementation patterns for trust on the Web. Our upcoming events are listed here:

• 2026-09-14

  Trust Triggers 2: neurosymbolic AI

  De Krook, Ghent, Belgium

  The second Trust Triggers event, one day before the SEMANTiCS conference in Ghent, with a keynote by Prof. Marta Sabou on Neurosymbolic AI.

• 2026-09-15

  The SEMANTiCS conference

  Ghent, Belgium

  A 3 day conference we’re bringing to Ghent, bringing together industry, governmental organisations and academia on the topic of semantic interoperability and knowledge graphs.

• 2026-09-18

  Belgian Data Spaces Day

  Digitaal Vlaanderen, Hendrik Consciencegebouw, Brussels

  The Belgian Data Spaces Day 2026 brings together Belgian and international experts for European policy updates, practical data space use cases and a panel discussion.

• 2026-10-22

  Trefdag Vlaanderen Digitaal 2026

  Flanders Expo, Hall 8, Ghent, Belgium

  Meet members of the Trustflows community at various booths during Flanders' annual gathering for digital government, centred on sovereignty in a connected world.

• 2026-11-12

  PACSOI closing event

  De Punt, Kerkstraat 108, 9050 Ghent, Belgium

  Discover the results of the imec.icon PACSOI project and experience a live demonstration of its patient-driven ecosystem for secure health data sharing, management and analysis.

The community

The community members are participants that have agreed to the principles in the charter. Want to get your organisation involved in the Trustflows community? Send an e-mail to Pieter Colpaert.

Use cases

• Signing a charter

  A Trustflow for letting organisations sign the Trustflows charter, or any other charter, using email verification, explicit DPV consent for publishing a representative name, and a W3C Verifiable Credential that cryptographically binds the signature triples to the charter.

  Initiation Partners: IDLab (Ghent University – imec)
  2026-01

• Bariatric care

  Bariatric care entails long-term support on weight management and improving related health issues. For this purpose, we implemented a patient-centric data architecture using Solid-based personal data vaults. These vaults enable verifiable, privacy-preserving sharing of clinical, lifestyle, and sensor data for coordinated care, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

  On-going Partners: FAQIR Foundation, FAQIR Institute, MoveUP, Byteflies, AContrario, Ghent University – IDLab
  2025-11

• Tracking shipments (logistics)

  Tracking shipments across multimodal supply chains often requires multiple platforms and fragile integrations. This use case explores how a logistics data space can provide end-to-end visibility with policy-based sharing and usage control.

  On-going Partners: imec, University of Antwerp, Vlerick Business School, VIL, T-Mining, VUB Mobilise, Pionira, Inuits, Van Moer Logistics
  2025-04

• Selective sharing of accredited personal data in HR

  A use case that explored secure, selective sharing of accredited personal data in a Solid ecosystem for HR workflows, combining policy checking, data minimization, and identity components with an end-to-end demonstrator.

  Archived Partners: TrustBuilder, Enhansa, DocByte, imec-mict-UGent, Athumi, Randstad Group, IDLab – UGent / imec, IDLab-TE
  2025-02

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