Initially the service was joined by institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Croatia and the United Kingdom. The eduroam initiative started in 2002 when during the preparations for the creation of TERENA's task force TF-Mobility, Klaas Wierenga of SURFnet shared the idea of combining a RADIUS-based infrastructure with IEEE 802.1X technology to provide roaming network access across research and education networks. A govroam service launched by Jisc followed in the UK in November 2016. A govroam service for municipalities in the Netherlands was launched in October 2013. In Belgium, Belnet uses the eduroam technology to provide a similar service to Belgian public administrations under the name govroam. in libraries, public buildings, railway stations, city centres and airports. In some countries, Internet access via eduroam is also available at other locations than the participating institutions, e.g. The service is provided at the local level by the participating institutions (universities, colleges, research institutes etc.). Authorization to access the Internet and other resources are handled by the visited institution. Users are authenticated with credentials from their home institution, regardless of the location of the eduroam access point. It provides researchers, teachers, and students network access when visiting an institution other than their own. Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Įduroam ( education roaming) is an international Wi-Fi internet access roaming service for users in research, higher education and further education.
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