InAcademia is the real-time, digital equivalent of asking a student to show you their student card in order to access or buy your services and products. InAcademia removes slow, costly and manual verification processes of students and academic staff by providing merchants with a quick, easy, reliable and secure way to verify identities.
Securing access to services and providing federated identity systems to enable efficient collaboration.
Today, online services are crucial to research and education. Students, researchers and institute staff rely on them for collaboration through webmail, e-learning, teaching, conferencing, analysing and sharing data, and for accessing journals and libraries. Trusted digital identities underpinned with secure technologies allow them to simply and securely access content and services.
GÉANT provides services that build trust, promote security and support the use of online identities, through a range of activities and international collaborations.
The eduGAIN interfederation service connects identity federations around the world, simplifying access to content, services and resources for the global research and education community. eduGAIN comprises over 60 participant federations connecting more than 5,000 Identity and Service Providers.
eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. eduroam allows students, researchers and staff to seamlessly access internet connectivity when within range of a hotspot, whether they’re moving across campus or visiting other participating institutions.