The REFEDS Entity Category Research and Scholarship (R&S) supports research and scholarship interaction, collaboration or management as an essential Component with release of mostly harmless attributes. For more information please see REFEDS Entity Category Research and Scholarship.

The GÉANT Data protection Code of Conduct (CoCo) defines an approach at a European level to meet the requirements of the European Union Data Protection Directive for releasing mostly harmless personal attributes to a Service Provider (SP) from an Identity Provider (IdP). For more information please see GEANT Data Protection Code of Conduct.

The Research & Education category applies to low-risk services that support research and education as an essential component.

To release attributes to services tagged with the Research & Education category the service must also be tagged with at least one of the SWAMID Data Protection Entity Categories.

The SFS 1993:1153 category is strictly reserved for services that are governed by the Swedish legislation SFS 1993:1153.

SFS 1993:1153 limits membership in this category to services provided by Swedish universities, Swedish university colleges and the Swedish government agencies Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) and Statistics Sweden (SCB).

The application is provided by a Swedish Higher Education Institution (HEI) which is ultimately responsible for its operation.

The application is provided by SUNET (the Swedish National Research and Education Network, NREN) which is ultimately responsible for its operation.

The application is compliant with either

• EU data protection directive as implemented in the national legislation (the service is located in a EU or EES country) or
• For services located outside EU and EES
  • EU adequate protection for third countries according to Commission decisions on the adequacy of the protection of personal data in third countries or
  • EU Model Contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.