Month: December 2019

ZHAW has switched to edu-ID – with around 20,000 people!

The Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) is using SWITCH edu-ID as replacement for the former AAI accounts and IdP since October 18. With currently around 20,000 persons with ZHAW affiliation, it is the largest university to date to use edu-ID.

Planning and reality

The ZHAW is one of the “Early Bird” universities that have already started planning the transition in 2017. The ZHAW coined the term “script cemetery” – a term for IdM processes that are based on many scripts difficult to maintain. The university therefore decided to replace its existing IdM. The edu-ID planning was part of this redesign project. Right from the start, the project manager succeeded in bringing all relevant stakeholders together at one table and also involving the departments where necessary, so that the migration plan was available in February 2018.
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Applying for Medical School using SWITCH edu-ID

Anyone wishing to begin studying human medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or chiropractic must register online with swissuniversities.

Since this year, authentication is exclusively done with SWITCH edu-ID on the Medon registration platform. Thus Medon uses a unique feature that was introduced with edu-ID in the Swiss AAI federation: anyone can create an edu-ID account and use it in the context of academic services.

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eduroam goes edu-ID

eduroam.ch launch, with cake

eduroam is the well known and widely used, worldwide high-performance wifi access service from GÉANT. Eduroam profiles for a large variety of end user devices are now also available on the eduroam.ch portal.

Today, on 1st December 2019, the eduroam.ch service enters its pilot phase. Within the four months to come, SWITCH will find out whether this enduser-friendly service actually responds to a need of the Universities or not. eduroam.ch uses your SWITCH edu-ID for authentication, and lets you download a profile for each of your devices in a user-friendly way. These profiles are somewhat special in that they solve a typical BYOD problem. Today’s profiles obtained by eduroam.ch won’t connect you to inner V-LANs, but only to a generic or “guest” V-LAN, as on any other Campus.

Two Universities joined the pilot already right at the beginning. Others, as well as further organisations like e.g. Alumni associations, may join during the whole pilot phase until 31. March 2020. Participation in the pilot is free, and Universities can use this service in parallel to their specific existing eduroam profiles and infrastructure.

Organisation wanting to join, contact us at eduroam-support@switch.ch. The same contact point answers also all further questions you may have about the service.