eduroam is an acronym for roaming in the education and research area. It provides an infrastructure that offers Internet connectivity to the users of the participating federations. This is done by verifying the credentials of the user's at the home institution through a RADIUS hierarchy.
eduroam started as a European cooperation and is currently developed by the Géant2 project JRA5 in collaboration with the TERENA TF-Mobility. For a complete list of participants and more information on the European hierarchy, please go to http://www.eduroam.org.
eduroam in Germany uses a RADIUS hierarchy with a top-level proxy hosted by DFN. Participating institutions can be found on the map.
The Observatory will review the conduct of "academic ranking" and expressions of "academic excellence" for the benefit of higher education, its stake-holders and the general public. This objective will be achieved by way of:
improving the standards, theory and practice in line with recommendations formulated in the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions
initiating research and training related to ranking excellence;
analyzing the impact of ranking on access, recruitment trends and practices;
analyzing the role of ranking on institutional behavior;
enhancing public awareness and understanding of academic work.