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Introduction
This page is for service providers who want to offer their SAML-enabled services to users and institutions in several countries. Thanks to the advantages of eduGAIN, such services can connected to the identity federations of more than 50 countries around the world. allows you to connect to one federation and have your service available to institutions in all 200+ countries joined in eduGAIN, minimizing technical and contractual work and headaches.
If you're a service operator (provider of resources to the academic and research community) and are looking for a way to allow higher education users to authenticate to your service via federated access, you find on this page the relevant steps that describe how a service can be integrated with eduGAIN as a SAML Service Provider..If you have a relationsh
This page’s target audience is technical people (i.e. administrators) of organizations or communities that operate the service. Examples of organizations and communities that typically are interested to operate a service in eduGAIN are:
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If you have a relationship to one of the above eduGAIN member federations, please follow their guide or get in touch with them using the given contact address. As explained above, a service can join eduGAIN via any eduGAIN member federation that accepts it. In order to become available as an eduGAIN service, a service only has to join one single eduGAIN member federation.
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