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The EdTech partnership agreement is concluded between the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) and a partner organization that offers an application for schools. The EdTech partnership agreement primarily covers the following aspects:

  1. Data processing agreement
  2. Single Sign On - Entity categories
  3. Interfaces

Attention: The EdTech agreement does not represent a commission, licensing or usage rights must be obtained by schools or school administrators themselves.

Onboarding of EdTech partners

The onboarding process defines the steps required for partners to link applications with the education portal. with the education portal. This enables the use of single sign-on and the use of the education portal's interfaces, such as the widget interface. education portal, such as the widget interface.

The education portal has a quality assurance environment (Q environment) in which no real personal data is processed. are processed. Technical integration in this Q environment can therefore begin before the agreement is signed. is signed. The roll-out in the integration environment (I environment) or the production environment (P environment) requires a concluded EdTech agreement.

Step 1: Registration

As an authorized representative of an edTech partner, you can register with us yourself. To do so, please sign up with ID-Austria at https://bip.gv.at/edtech/onboarding. It is also possible to register multiple partner organizations and manage them with a single account.

Optionally, you can also register applications within the partner organizations you have created. To do this, click on the action menu of your entry as a partner organization and then select “Applications.” Also available in this action menu is the “Permissions” function, which you can use to authorize additional people to manage the entire partner entry or specific applications.

All persons authorized to manage the partner entry or an application will see the “edTech Partner” organization on the education portal dashboard and a link to the technical documentation and the management page for the partner entry and applications in the “Important Links” widget. The technical documentation is only visible after logging in to the education portal.

Step 2: Initial filling of the EdTech Partner Agreement documents

EdTech partners are asked to complete the documents, whereby the documentation referenced in step 1 is useful. These documents are*):

  • Partnership agreement [docx] [odt]
    The partnership agreement regulates the conditions under which the BMB and the respective partners cooperate with regard to the education portal.
  • Appendix A: AVV [docx] [odt]
    Appendix A of the partnership agreement is the data processing agreement (AVV), which must be signed separately, which must be in place before data from the education portal can be passed on to the partner.
  • Appendix B-E: Interfaces, widgets and SSO [docx] [odt]
    In Appendix B, the partner describes its own application and the purposes for which the data is processed. It is agreed with the BMB which of the standard interfaces offered (e.g. retrieval of master data, triggering notifications to legal guardians, searching content repositories, sending official delivery, ...) will be available for this application. This selection must be made in accordance with the described purposes of data processing and follow the principles of data minimization. Furthermore, a partner may only use the data from these interfaces for the purposes specified in the partnership agreement.
    At the time of signing, it is not necessary that an application supports all agreed interfaces. The operationalization of the interfaces is possible at any time by the partner.
    Appendix C defines which widgets are intended for a specific application. As with the standard interfaces, these widgets are configured by the BMB and can be operationally set by the partner at a later date.
    Appendix D can be used to describe other interfaces that a partner would like to implement apart from the standard interfaces. Such interfaces must be provided by the respective partner as Moodle plugin. In this case, Appendix D regulates the permitted functional scope of these interfaces. Integration into the education portal is subject to a technical and legal review by the BMB.
    Appendix E specifies the extent to which the SSO token is enriched with personal data when logging in via the education portal to the third-party application.
*) These documents are currently only available in German.

Step 3: Establishment of contact

EdTech partners are requested to contact the Federal Ministry of Education at https://bip.gv.at/support and submit the completed documents of the edTech agreement.

In response to the inquiry, the EdTech partner will be provided with specific contact persons for further processing.

Step 4: Confirmation by the FME

Once agreement has been reached with the BMB, the partnership agreement is signed by both parties. The SSO connection can then be established and approval for interfaces can be set up.