How to join?

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Last updated: 11 Jan 24 by Paul Leys
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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

Many institutions participate in eduGAIN, an international interfederation service interconnecting research and education identity federations.

To find out if your institution is part of eduGAIN please follow these 3 steps:

Visit the website https://technical.edugain.org/status

Select your country and click on the National Research and Education Network of your country.
They all have different names and status in the country.

On the website of the selected National Research and Education Network check whether your higher education institution appears or not as a member. If your higher education institution is a member of the eduGAIN system, your IT team will be able to deploy and then allocate the EWP admin role role entitlement to dedicated staff member(s) at your higher education institution.

If it's not clear or you are not able to confirm it, contact your National Research and Education Network and find out about the status of your higher education institution. Go to https://technical.edugain.org/status and find your National Research and Education Network.

If your institution is part of eduGAIN, liaise with your IT department to make sure that your university can support the deployment of the European Student Identifier in your local information systems and release the relevant student attributes through eduGAIN when students authenticate electronically:

  1. Name

  2. Surname

  3. Home organisation

  4. Email

  5. ESI

Institution is not part of eduGAIN

If your higher education institution is not yet part of eduGAIN, check whether this is an option for your institution and get in touch with your National Research and Education Network.

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.

Students unable to find their university in the MyAcademicID login screen when trying to access OLA are invited to check with their university whether they have valid eduGAIN credentials.