There are different options to enable your students to access the services of the European Student Card Initiative using MyAcademicID. These services are using MyAcademicID to identify the students, using their European Student Identifier (ESI), uniquely and reliably. It also allows to control access based on the affiliation status at their higher education institution. There are different scenario's for enabling MyAcademicID:.

Institution is part of eduGAIN

...

For institutions that cannot joint eduGAIN and cannot be supported by the National Research and Education Network, a specific solutions was put in place, the so called IdP of Last Resort.