eduroam / at home

Your university account with the eduroam password (formerly: RAS password) can also be useful to you outside the University of Freiburg at an eduroam partner or from home.

If you are on a business trip and are looking for a WLAN internet connection, you can dial in to eduroam partners worldwide. The aim of eduroam is to provide easy and secure access to the internet in academic organisations.
Eduroam Logo

eduroam stands for EDUcation ROAMing. The international initiative eduroam is an association of national organisations that organise data exchange among scientists. In Germany, this is the Association for the Promotion of a German Research Network (DFN), which distributes and offers this service under the name DFNRoaming/eduroam.

https://www2.dfn.de/dienstleistungen/eduroam/

A list of participating institutions can be found at eduroam-where.

https://eduroam.org/?p=where

For the eduroam partners, the network name and the encryption mode of the connection may differ from the method at the University of Freiburg.

You can find information about the procedure with eduroam at the University of Freiburg in the RZ-Wiki: WLAN with eduroam

https://wiki.uni-freiburg.de/rz/doku.php?id=wlan-eduroam

Please enquire in good time with your target institution about their handling of eduroam.

From home

If you want to access resources of the University of Fribourg from home, you will have to authenticate yourself for security or licence reasons, depending on the content.

If the information service you need requires a university IP address, you can establish a VPN connection to the VPN server of the Computer Centre. You can see which services you can use in the RZ-Wiki: VPN for various systems in the section "Which services can you use with the VPN client."

https://wiki.uni-freiburg.de/rz/doku.php?id=vpn

Contact points WLAN / VPN

https://www.rz.uni-freiburg.de/de/services/netztel/wlan-vpn/helpcenter/ansprechstellen#vpn-wlan