InAcademia leverages the eduGAIN interfederation, acting as a proxy service to services that need only validate the academic affiliation of a user. Offering InAcademia via your Federation offers a lighter weight option for services that would...
FAQs for Identity Federations
A merchant is an e-commerce organisation that provides its customers (users) access to academic discounts and services. Merchants are customers of the InAcademia service.
InAcademia is a service available to NRENs/Federations via eduGAIN that reduces the effort of onboarding services to national federations. InAcademia is a trusted party that acts as a proxy between IdP and merchant. This has three primary benefits:...
InAcademia was created by a group of Identity Federation operators and is actively managed by members of Identity Federations under the GEANT Project. You can have a say, and can actively be involved in influencing the InAcademia future direction...
The intention is that any revenue will be used to help to sustain delivery of InAcademia service, eduGAIN and Federation Operators in future, therefore, there may be some tangible, financial benefit in promoting InAcademia amongst your community.
No! InAcademia is funded by a combination of commercial revenue and funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 856726 (GN4-3).
InAcademia achieves privacy by design and privacy by default: InAcademia only releases confirmation or denial of academic affiliation (and country/home institution where configured to do so) in response to a service provider’s request for a...