eduGAIN connects approximately 27 million students, researchers, and teachers worldwide. Learn about some of the services and benefits of membership.
eduGAIN. Enhancing universal access.
This service, which has just celebrated 10 years of existence, helps more than 27 million students, researchers, and teachers worldwide access online services by minimizing the number of accounts users need to manage—reducing costs, complexity, and security risks.
More than 70 global federations participate in this initiative that simplifies access to services, resources, and content for the entire education and research community. All through a single platform. login.
For organizations and users looking to access or share data and services, joining eduGAIN offers several benefits. From a service perspective, eduGAIN offers access to users worldwide and reduces integration costs and complexity, as the service does not need to manage user credentials. For institutions, it offers more services to their users and reduces the need for individual agreements. In turn, users benefit from secure and simple access to services from other federations using only their institutional account.
Discover 5 eduGAIN services
In practical terms, joining eduGAIN translates into a broader range of available services. Thus, in addition to RCTS services, participating institutions can count on additional services. Here are some examples.
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THE RCTS Certificates is the service that ensures the provision of various types of digital certificates to entities belonging to the RCTS. The FCCN Unit guarantees this service through TCS (Trusted Certificate Service), made available by the Association GÉANT.
For the issuance and management of these certificates, Sectigo provides a single portal with authentication via eduGAIN. When issuing personal certificates, this portal has the unique feature of allowing the user to be identified as a member of an institution. These certificates allow for signing and encrypting emails.
#2
The project MyAcademicID was created within the scope of European Student Card Initiative, which aims to enable all students to easily and securely identify and enroll electronically at any European higher education institution. To achieve this goal, the European Commission has established a digitalization path for all services related to the program. Erasmus+. In this context, the MyAcademicID project currently provides an identity and access management platform, combining the eIDAS and eduGAIN for authentication in services related to the Erasmus+ program (Erasmus+ App or Online Learning Agreement).
#3
eduTEAMS is a service provided by GÉANT for small and medium-sized communities that wish to access and share data or services securely, without having to deal with the complexity of operating their own AAI infrastructure (Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure). This supports multiple communities on the same platform and provides the tools needed to securely collaborate and use the services available to the GÉANT community and the “European Open Science Cloud”.
#4
THE InAcademia provides commercial services with a reliable and fast mechanism for verifying users as students, returning a "Yes" or "No" response without the need to exchange personal data, reducing the risk and cost of service setup. It is a low-cost, easy-to-implement service that provides extremely fast validation (does not rely on institutional email verification) and is completely secure. InAcademia uses eduGAIN as the basis for its authentication and membership verification process.
#5 CYCLADES
THE Cyclades is a cloud service, also known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) developed by the Greek National Research and Education Network (NREN) – GRNET. This infrastructure allows the creation of virtual machines on-demand through an interface webAny user of an institution participating in eduGAIN can access and use the platform.
Institutions interested in accessing eduGAIN must be members of the Science, Technology, and Society Network (RCTS) Identity Federation. For more information, see how to become a member. federated.
To learn about other services included and obtain more information visit the RCTSaai/eduGAIN services page.
