Get started with AAF
Federation delivers world-class single sign-on that allows individuals across organisational boundaries to collaborate and access online resources within a trusted environment.
Start by connecting to the federation if your organisation undertakes or supports education, research or development including:
- tertiary education institutions, such as universities or vocational education institutions
- government, commercial research institutions and not-for-profit entities
- commercial product and service organisations delivering products or services to the education and research sector
- any other entity approved by the AAF Ltd. Board from time to time.
See a list of our current Subscribers.
All subscribers must be a legal entity or have a lead agent or similar represent them to become subscribers.
Connection Options
There are two connection options available to join the Federation:
- accessing and providing services
- providing a service only
Accessing and providing services
- If your organisation has an authentication service and
- is small to medium the RapidIdP Research subscription is for you
- is large the RapidIdP Enterprise subscription is for you. You can manage your own connection to the federation or we can manage it on your behalf for an additional fee.
- if your organisation doesn’t have an authentication service
- the RapidIdP Starter subscription is for you
Providing a service only
- the Publisher subscription is for service or platform providers
AAF enables international connections
eduGAIN is an international service connecting research communities and higher education identity federations globally. By subscribing to the Federation you can connect internationally. eduGAIN enables sharing of research tools and secure collaboration between researchers, educators and students around the world.
Connecting Australian researchers and services to international research facilities makes collaboration easy.
See the full list of Australian organisations and services connected internationally with eduGAIN.
Ready to connect?
Test and trial Federation services in AAF’s Test environment without a subscription plan in place. The Test environment is ideal for experimentation, troubleshooting activity, and to gain experience in connecting to Federation services.
Contact us
We're here to help. Contact AAF Support Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm AEST (excluding Queensland public holidays).