There is a high demand in the retail and services sector to reach out to the student and academic population. The service team proactively identifies potential service providers to register to InAcademia, based on published eligibility criteria, but...
FAQs for Institutions
Using InAcademia makes it easier for Institutions to connect to third parties that offer services to campuses, students and staff using federated access by removing the need for any coordinated effort between Institution and merchant ( such as the...
The InAcademia service is offered by GÉANT, the European collaboration of national research and education infrastructures, in partnership with key participants from the eduGAIN community. It is governed by a committee of stakeholders deriving from...
Country Service Operating Merchant Austria educom.at, edustore.at and educlub.at Edustore GmbH ubook.at ACP TechRent SlideMagic free pro subscription for students SlideMagic Ltd Denmark Services include Spotify International. Refer to all downstream...
It is necessary to allow InAcademia to interact with your institution’s SAML Identity Provider, and to release the required attributes. To find out how to enable InAcademia for your members contact the InAcademia team or refer to more information on...
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...
InAcademia makes it possible for Service Providers who have found it technically difficult to join an identity federation to make use of academic identities by providing a lightweight, secure service to third parties without the cost and complexity...
Merchants embed InAcademia into their processes that validate whether users are eligible for specified offers. The Merchant service initiates an OIDC request towards InAcademia asking the InAcademia service to compare the a specified affiliation...
InAcademia allows users to validate their eligibility for offers at merchants’ websites (web shops) on the basis of the positive verification of their affiliation with an academic institution, but instead of allowing the retail service full access...
InAcademia is a service available in eduGAIN offered to commercial retailers who use InAcademia as a real-time, digital equivalent of showing a student card to in order to access academic discounts, products and services This means that retailers...
