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Members of the Moldova State University (MSU) community – faculty staff, researchers, and students – can now leverage the full benefits of eduGAIN. eduGAIN enables participating institutions and their affiliated users and services to interconnect efficiently with multiple authentication and authorisation infrastructures. With a single trusted identity from their own institution, MSU users can access different services worldwide, which play an important role in accelerating the digital transformation of national and global research and education.
As the national research and education network, RENAM develops modern electronic communications infrastructure and provides high-speed internet access and advanced digital services to academic institutions across the country.
Following a successful collaboration with RENAM on eduroam implementation, MSU is now expanding its use of RENAM services. Online services are crucial for modern research and education, and integrating them into everyday university practice is essential for capitalizing on global opportunities offered by the pan-European academic network GÉANT. Implementing eduGAIN is a major digital milestone, giving MSU users seamless, secure federated access to a wide range of academic resources and services.
MSU provides users with a single online identity for all services. Logging in with an institutional ID and password (through federated user authentication process) keeps personal data safe because credentials are never shared.
Access to global research and education resources with eduGAIN
eduGAIN – a user authentication and authorisation service within the national identity federation LEAF (MoLdovan ResEarch and EducAtion Identity Federation), which simplifies access to national and European information resources for the research and education community. Today eduGAIN is used by over 80 national federations worldwide connecting more than 10,000 Identity and Service Providers. Several examples of resources can be outlined in this regard:
With eduGAIN authentication, more services tailored for the global research and education community – including eduVPN and FileSender – are closer, just a click away.
eduVPN – a secure network connection service to access internal resources of the institution as well as services from different or remote locations.
FileSender – a service that enables to send large files quickly and securely. The sender has full control over who receives and can access the files and for which period of time – as it should be. With privacy, data security and digital sovereignty high on the agenda of both organizations and individuals, the FileSender open source web-application provides a secure, trustworthy and transparent way for sharing large files. According to the FileSender deployment map updated in April 2026, there are 54 countries in the world where the FileSender service is provided to the corresponding national R&E communities. In the Republic of Moldova the FileSender service is implemented by RENAM to support research and education institutions: https://filesender.renam.md/
Empowering data-intensive research
eduGAIN is also integral in support of e-infrastructures, enabling large-scale research collaborations by providing secure, federated access to computing resources, datasets, and high-performance networks – such as the advanced Open Science capabilities of the EOSC EU Node and the EuroHPC Federation Platform.
EOSC EU Node services – a robust set of 6 services, that in its goal to accelerate the adoption of Open Science, address key challenges in modern research workflows, allowing users to operate efficiently within data-intensive environments:
An updated EOSC EU Node User Access Policy (version 2.5) defines the access groups, their corresponding access rights, service limits, and virtual credit allocation policies for the users. It brings clearer user roles, increased credit allocations, and expanded access to compute services, ensuring that the EOSC EU Node platform keeps pace with the needs of Europe’s research community. In particular, the policy outlines the following roles:
Credits are virtual, they have no monetary value. Credits are replenished to the default allocation every three months (90 days) period.
Discover more about how the EOSC EU Node services can be used from the case studies from the HOMEROS project and the British Library.
RENAM provides to all Moldovan research and education institutions the necessary assistance in implementation of federated access to services and in becoming a member of the LEAF national identity federation. For more details please contact us via email leaf@renam.md.