InAcademia is the real-time, digital equivalent of asking a student or academic to show you their university or student card in order to access or buy your services and products. Using InAcademia will mean that you no longer need to rely on...
FAQs for Merchants
InAcademia uses data that universities and research institutions maintain about their users so that they can provide their own services to users effectively and securely. This data comes directly from the organisation’s internal identity and access...
Students do not need to register accounts with the InAcademia Service in order to benefit from the services that retailers offer; instead, they will simply use their institutional credentials to verify their affiliation status using the principles...
InAcademia Service is subject to a ‘per validation’ fee that will be invoiced regularly. In circumstances where the merchant requesting access to InAcademia operates to non-profit principles, it might be possible to use InAcademia for free. Please...
Support is offered in accordance with ; premium levels of support may be made available, depending on requirements.
InAcademia is being used in live retail workflows in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Greenland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and Turkey. It is permitted for use across Europe and will become available in other...
InAcademia can provide other affiliation statements such as faculty, employee and staff – see /technical-overview/technical-overview).
The definition of ‘student’ differs widely among academic institutions. We deliver academic affiliation according to the locally accepted definition, which may extend to full-time, part-time, and mature students. We use the term ‘student-ness’ to...
Merchants are entitled to choose either route, depending on the policies of various local Identity Federations, but taking the local identity federation membership route requires the merchant to maintain registrations and conformance to local...
There is no need for the merchant to transfer any personally identifiable information to InAcademia in the validation request; InAcademia will simply utilise the home institution’s system to interpret the user’s academic affiliation and will...
