Identity & access management
Reports and publications
Publication – March 2026
A single digital educational identity for vocational education, higher professional education and university education
Vocational education (mbo), higher professional education (hbo) and university education (wo) are working towards a single, shared digital educational identity. This will facilitate student mobility between institutions, give learners greater control over their own data and reduce error-prone manual administrative tasks at educational institutions. In this paper, we explain how SURF views and is working towards a digital identity for further education.
Read the position paper in Dutch
Publication – February 2024
SURFshort podcast: what you need to know about... taking control of your identity
DigiD is a form of Identity and Access Management, or IAM. This is something we deal with in education and research in the Netherlands. What happens if we can no longer access the identity details of students, staff or researchers? Arnout Terpstra, team lead for Identity and Access Management at SURF, answers these questions in the context of current geopolitical developments.
Listen to the podcast in Dutch
Publication – October 2023
How do we maintain control over our digital identity?
Identity and access management, or IAM for short, is an area of expertise that is high on the agenda within higher education and research. There are an ever-increasing number of applications and platforms available to us, and in most cases we cannot use them without our digital identity.