Celebrating 15 Years

For 15 years, the AAF has been providing trust and identity services to connect and protect the research and higher education sector.

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Experts in Trust & Identity

Empowering Australian researchers, students and educators to access digital resources seamlessly.

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Trust and identity for national research infrastructure

We are Australia's Trust and Identity capability for the national research infrastructure system.

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Australian ORCID Consortium

AAF leads the Australian ORCID Consortium, enabling a globally unique persistent identifier for every researcher.

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Connecting Australia’s research, teaching and learning communities

What we do

The AAF provides technology and policy that enables seamless access for the research and higher education sector.

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Why the AAF?

Our technology allows students, teachers and researchers to access services across separate organisations with one username and password.

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AAF is a Trust and Identity capability

AAF is partnering with national research infrastructures to create a seamless, secure and globally connected research ecosystem.

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Who is connected?

See the full list of Australian universities, research organisations, commercial and other service providers that you can access via the Federation.

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Connect internationally

Interested in taking your research or service global with a few simple steps? Join the other Australian organisations connecting internationally.

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Solutions

The AAF has a number of solutions available. We can work with you to find a solution that best suits your organisation’s needs.

For users

Access national research and education services with one username and password.

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For national research infrastructures

We are partnering with fellow national research infrastructures to enable system-wide trust and identity.

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For education organisations

Securely share information and collaborate with all Australian universities, CSIRO, NSW Health and other research organisations.

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For publishers and platforms

Provide your content to all Australian universities, CSIRO and medical research institutes with a single configuration.

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Seamless and trusted access for the Australian research and higher education sector*

AAF provides trusted access to national and international research services to enable Australian research and innovation

10.9M

Sessions for all services

109

Organisations connected to the AAF

546

Australian service connections

454

International service connections

99.95%

AAF cloud services availability

*2024 full year

Featured stories and case studies

Enabling national and international researchers with open access to their state-of-the-art phenotyping

Australian Plant Phenomics Network’s connection to the Federation enables national and international researchers with open access to their state-of-the-art phenotyping.

AAF and the National Imaging Facility

AAF has partnered with the National Imaging Facility (NIF) exploring improved access and collaboration for complex multi-site human imaging projects and medical trials using sensitive data.

Making visible the impact of Australia’s national microscopy infrastructure

Through trust and identity, the impact of Australia’s distributed microscopy infrastructure will be revealed. AAF has partnered with Microscopy Australia exploring impact tracking through persistent identifiers (PIDs).