Any French or foreign organization can register to the federation as a partner: public institution, association, private company, etc.
The conditions for becoming a partner are to offer content directly related to education or research activities or to provide support services to institutions (in this latter case, it requires to be sponsored by several member organizations).

As a partner in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche, you can only declare one or more service providers (no identity provider).

We assume that you already know what is an identity federation, its purpose, the way it works… If not, you can gather more information on the Shibboleth website. You can also contact us. To learn about the terminology used in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche, please read the glossary.

To become a partner in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche follow these instructions:

1. Read the Fédération Éducation-Recherche partner charter and its appendix, make sure that you can assume the partner's responsibilities;
2. Make sure that your application is technically compatible with identity federation technology;
3. Read the Fédération Éducation-Recherche technical framework and make sure it is compatible with your service provider software setup;
4. Download, print and fill out one copy of the partner charter in english and its appendix (all fields are mandatory);
5. Download, print and fill out one copy of the partner charter in French (you have to fill out its appendix also, but you are not obliged to fill it in French, you can copy what you did fill in the English version);
6. A director entitled to bind the partner’s organisation by contract signs those two copies of the charter;
7. Send both versions of the charter to:

GIP RENATER
Parc Agropolis 2
2196 Boulevard de la Lironde
Bâtiment 6
34980 Montferrier sur Lez 

Then the federation contacts designated in the Charter appendix will be notified by email that their organism has been registered in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche as a partner. This email provides them with the instructions to declare one or more service providers.

Once your organization is registered as a partner in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche, you will be able to declare one or more service providers.