eduID .

The eduID documentation lives in a separate space:

eduID documentation

eduID: 1 identity within education and research

Students increasingly want to study outside their own institution. For example, they have interests in subjects from different study programmes or they want to raise their profile on the labour market. Educational institutions also offer joint courses, the components of which are given to multiple institutions. The goal is to introduce eduID for all students in education and research.

To facilitate this flexibility, students must be uniquely identifiable across institutions. In this way, different institutions can be sure that they are dealing with the same student and, for example, study results obtained can be exchanged. eduID makes this possible. Anyone directly and indirectly involved in education can use an eduID.

eduID for external users

eduID is not only for student access. eduID can (and currently is) used to give all kinds of users access to applications via SURFconext, often because these users do not have an account at an institution or are not allowed to have such an account. Examples are researchers, professionals, internship supervisors, pre-students, alumni, parents, guests, etc.

To allow external users to login to an application connected to SURFconext, depending on the situation both the administrative contact of the SP and/or IdP have to give their consent for the use of guest access. Get in touch with support@surfconext.nl to request guest access.