Kalmar2 is a collaboration that allows single sign-on access to web resources across universities in Nordic countries. It interconnects the authentication systems of national research networks using the SAML2 standard. Kalmar2 is the first large-scale international cross-federation for the academic community and supports multiple federation architectures. It provides users access to e-learning, collaboration, and eScience services from any participating Nordic university using their local username and password.

3. The great ruler Queen Margrete the first

4. No wars between us since 1721

6. use of web resources available in other Nordic countries

7. Nordic integration of authentication systems for education and research

8. students access to services in other countries

9. staff and researchers access to services abroad

10. enhanced services for eScience, education and research

14. Support same protocol flavor saml2int.org

16. First cross-federation with support for multiple federation architectures: centralized (Feide), hybrid (WAYF), proxy (Iceland via WAYF) and full distributed mesh (SWAMID, Haka)

17. First public international cross-federation policy

18. First international multi-vendor interconnections

19. It works!

22. Portals

26. Technical: install SAML2.0 software (Shibboleth, simpleSAMLphp or other), upload metadata

29. Single Log Out

30. Metadata management

31. Signing keys for all involved parties

34. Tested interoperability

36. OpenWiki (wiki with group support)

37. University of Turku Moodle (e-learning)

38. Feide RnD blog

39. Secure mail (Feide)

40. Attribute release test service (Haka)

41. SWAMID login test service

42. Translation portal for software (Feide)

45. NIAS Asia Portal, Nordic Institute for Asian Studies

46. Scientific writing tool www.scribo.dk

47. Helsinki University LMS: moodle.helsinki.fi

48. Grid in 5 min: Short Lived Certificate Service, federation login granting GRID certificates

52. Get directed to your university

53. Log in with your local username/password

54. Access is granted, you are happy

60. User friendly and privacy preserving

61. Nordic infrastructure for eScience

62. Sharing resources

63. We are blazing the path!

66. Best practice for Identity Management

68. e-learning

74. Not all federations are willing to interconnect

79. We share resources