SURFconext
SURFconext, provided by SURF, is a federated identity management service for secondary vocational-, higher education and research in the Netherlands. With SURFconext, users can authenticate at cloud-services using their institutional account. This offers new possibilities for collaboration, within institutions and across institutional boundaries. On the SURFconext IdP dashboard you can see which services have a technical link with the SURFconext platform.
You can access services offered via SURFconext directly or via the portal of your institution. Logging in is always done with your institution account. This is easy and safe; you do not have to create a username and password with every service provider. In addition, SURFconext offers Strong Authentication. Your institution may choose to activate this for certain services with sensitive data, so that you log in to these services with your institution account (something you know) and a second factor (something you have).
Login, personal data and two-factor authentication
Societal and political involvement
SURF writes position- en informationpapers on a regular basis. The association takes position about subjects relevant for governers, policy makers and politicians. These papers form references for conversations with them. You can find the papers from 2016 onwards on the SURF website.