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A couple of times a year we organize a day where our team presents what SURFconext is and offers, followed by a hackathon, a session where people interested in using SURFconext to allow easier access to their service to interact with our team and get hands-on help in connecting their service. Due to the corona situation we currently offer an alternative solution. If you're interested, send an email to raoul.teeuwen@surfnet.nl .

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This page is intended for IT-professionals that who are interested in connecting to SURFconext. If you are a student, a teacher or an end-user of any kind and you are looking for support on how to use SURFconext you can read our end-user documentation here.

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This is the landing page of SURFconext. From here on you can navigate through our documentation and find out what SURFconext can do for you and how to get connected. Administrators and engineers from both Identity Providers (IdP's) as well as Service Providers (SP's), or Relying Parties (RP's) in OIDC terminology, can start here.


SURFconext offers 'Single Sign On'-access to a large and increasing number of online services .

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About 200 Dutch

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organizations in the area of secondary vocational-, higher education and research are

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SURFconext

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for this. Together these organizations represent a group of about 1

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5 million users who generate millions of logins per month

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SURFconext allows users to have access to services offered by multiple Service Providers using only 1 account.

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If you connect your organisation to SURFconext, you will enjoy the following advantages:

  • By connecting to SURFconext only once, your users will have access to all available services.
  • You can easily regulate authorisation for entire groups of students and employees.
  • You don't have to implement and maintain a custom made connection to each service or Service Provider seperately.
  • Once you are connected to SURFconext, making new services available for your users is fast and easy.
  • The number of available services is ever growing, since more and more organisations choose to use SURFconext.
  • You can integrate your internal authorization resources with SURFconext.
  • You can easily reuse tools and software code from other organisations ('Write once, deploy anywhere').
  • You can easily share your own services with other organisations.
  • SURFconext offers more flexible and cheaper licences.

Why should I connect to SURFconext?

The number of available cloud services is growing quickly. Most organisations consider using these services next to internally hosted services. Besides, organisations want to offer a secure environment where both internal and external services can be used side by side. Important elements for this are Single Sign-On, trusted identity and collaboration in groups and teams. Organisations are looking for possibilities to integrate these different kinds of applications. SURFconext offers starting points to realise this.

How does SURFconext work?

For more information, have a look at Schema en uitleg (only available in Dutch).

We've also included a list of used terms together with their definitions at the page Woordenlijst (NL) (only available in Dutch).

Get started with SURFconext

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*[Documentatie voor Identity Providers|Documentatie voor Identity Providers]*
SURFconext can be used Organisations with a SURFnet connection. To connect to SURFconext, a number of technical, organisational and legal steps need to be performed. [Click here|surfconextdev:Documentatie voor Identity Providers] for a step by step manual (only available in Dutch).
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If you want to offer services through SURFconext, you will have to perform certain steps. [Click here|surfconextdev:Documentation for Service Providers] for an overview.
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The SURFconext-infrastructure can help collaboration organisations with verification, authorization and group management. [Click here|surfconextdev:Samenwerken via SURFconext] to see the possibilities (only available in Dutch).
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SURFfederatie merged to SURFconext. [Click here|surfconextdev:Migration SURFfederatie - SURFconext] for more information about this trajectory.
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Get to know more SURFconext here and watch a short introduction video.

Whether you find connecting to SURFconext easy or not, depends on your knowledge and background of our used protocols. Developers familiar with these are able to connect services within a days work. Take your time to get to know SAML or OpenID Connect. These are open standards and used in most countries and many sectors. So whenever and wherever you're offering your service, you can re-use this time and effort you've put into connecting to SURFconext.


Getting Started

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Connect your service in 5 steps

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Jump to our IdP dashboard to connect to services.

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Contact us!

If you have any questions you can get in touch with us for answers to all of your questions about SURFconext. We prefer to be contacted by mail at support@surfconext.nl. Support by mail allows us to send and receive links, screenshots, metadata and lot's more, helping us to answer your questions more efficiently. If you think this doesn't work for you or you are having trouble formulating your question and prefer to talk to us directly, we will give you a call. Send us a mail with your contact information, including your phone number of course, and we will get back to you.

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