For Industry

Turning ambition into real opportunity

Australia’s biggest ambitions get realised when industry, researchers and universities can work together more easily.

Whether you’re developing new technology, commercialising research, building digital services or solving complex industry challenges, collaboration starts with connection. And increasingly, that connection is digital.

With the Australian Access Federation, your organisation can use trusted federated access to connect with the universities, organisations and communities using the credentials you already have.

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AAF puts your organisation inside one of Australia’s most trusted and widely used identity networks.

The same infrastructure supports every individual member, and it’s working at scale every day.

Benefits at a glance

Joining AAF changes how your team reaches the research sector, how secure the access is and how quickly a partnership can get moving.

Access to Australia’s national research infrastructure
AAF opens the door to world-class data platforms, high-performance computing and specialist facilities that would be out of reach for most businesses to build or buy.
Your team gets the tools behind Australia’s biggest research breakthroughs, with the compliance that comes with them.
A faster path from discovery to market
Connect directly with the research outputs, facilities and expertise that turn ideas into products.
AAF shortens the road from lab to market, opening up commercialisation and innovation opportunities that would otherwise take far longer to reach.
Real partnerships with Australian universities
One agreed trust framework lets your team work alongside researchers, academics and students across multiple institutions. You won’t need a separate setup every time, so joint projects can get moving rather than stalling in admin.
Collaboration across sectors and around the world
The same network that connects you to universities also links you to government agencies, medical research institutes and research infrastructure providers. Through eduGAIN, it reaches partners across international borders too.
That makes complex, multi-partner projects possible at a scale few businesses could manage alone.
Connect once, grow without the overhead
Your team uses the credentials they already have, so you can join projects and programs from day one.
As your collaborations grow, your access grows with them. There are no new accounts or integrations for every partner, which means more partnerships without more admin.
Your data and IP, protected
Your organisation keeps its own security controls, and only the information a service actually needs is shared. Access can be tied to roles and project participation, so you can collaborate openly while protecting your people, data and IP, and show compliance when it counts.

A two-way door into the research sector

Most of the benefits help your team to access what they need in the research sector. But federated access works both ways.

It isn’t about “customer” or “parter” – the same trust framework that gets your people into the platforms and collaboration environments, can also make your own digital services easier for eligible researchers, students and university staff to reach, using the institutional credentials they already have.

And that is the real value AAF brings. This technology is encouraging and allowing individuals and organisations to be a part of the same, trusted ecosystem. A system everyone can rely on.

Services

Explore the AAF services working behind the scenes to connect people, identities and infrastructure across multiple sectors:

Federation
The trust framework behind every secure, seamless login.
The Federation
VerifID
Lets you verify someone’s university or institutional affiliation instantly – without collecting or storing their personal data.
VerifID
Virtual Home
Support for people who don’t have an institutional login of their own.
Virtual Home