Apply for membership in an existing project in Educloud Research

You must register for a specific project in order to gain access to Educloud resources (see the guided steps below). UiO user who only want access to Fox, the general-purpose HPC cluster, can apply for access to the Fox test project ec12. 

If you don't have access to ID-porten

For project administrators; please see the user manual for international applications.

Note: To add users without access to ID-porten, a project administrator must have a video or phone call with the new user.

The project administrator does the following:

1. Go to Foreign User Administration.
2. Click on the Invite foreign users link.
3. Then click on Invite international user under Project administration.
4. Fill out information on the user and click Send invitation.
5. Share the password (secret string) with the user via a video or phone call

Note! The link sent to the user is valid for 3 hours and requires a password.

When the user receives the link, do the following:

5. Open the link received.
6. Create a user and set a password.
7. Then generate a QR code for One Time Password (OTP).

Finally (project administrator):

8. Once the user is created, the project administrator grants access to Windows machines via the self service portal (selfservice.educloud.no).

If you have any questions, please email ec-contact@usit.uio.no.

If you have ID-porten

1. Go to the self service portal (selfservice.educloud.no).
2. Under Applications, click on Project membership.
3. Select Log in with ID-porten.
4. Sign in using your preferred ID-porten method.
   • If you need help with ID-porten, see the documentation at eid.difi.no.
5. Enter the project number for the project you want access to under Project code, and fill in your name and email.
6. Confirm that the provided ID number is your national ID number (also referred to as birth number) by checking the box next to I confirm that this is my national ID.
7. Finally, click on Submit membership application to submit your application.

After you have submitted the membership application, an administrator in the project must approve your application before you gain access. It is the project's administrators who approves membership applications, not Educloud. Therefore, if you need your application to be approved, please contact the administrators of the relevant project.