By Mikkel Hald, 11/11/26
The Capital Region of Denmark’s new innovation platform IRIS has joined WAYF. The platform is designed to connect challenges in the healthcare sector with the knowledge and expertise of educational institutions. And precisely because IRIS was created for collaboration across institutions, WAYF is a natural fit.
IRIS was developed for Copenhagen Health Innovation (CHI) by the region’s IT and analytics group Medtek Huset and enables healthcare professionals to share concrete challenges that students and teaching staff can work on in innovation projects. The platform builds on ten years of collaboration between the healthcare sector and a number of higher education institutions involving more than 300 project cases.
What is distinctive about IRIS is that the platform does not merely support use by many different institutions. That is its very purpose: to create a shared digital space for collaboration across organisations.
One community – one login integration
This makes IRIS a particularly good example of the value of WAYF as the shared identity federation for the research and education sector.
With a single integration to WAYF, IRIS can authenticate users from the many participating institutions without having to establish separate connections to their different authentication systems. The integration is based on open standards and is independent of which identity products the institutions use – including if they later replace them.
IRIS already has federation connections to 23 different institutions.
Roald Simonsen, a developer working on IRIS, highlights both the shared integration and the collaboration with WAYF:
– Our collaboration with WAYF has been really good. It has made it much easier to connect IRIS to the user directories and authentication systems of the many institutions that will be using the platform. And with WAYF’s self-service tool, we can fine-tune the setup ourselves for each individual institution if there are specific details we need to adjust.
IRIS thus illustrates how WAYF creates value in its core role. The federation not only provides access to the digital identity infrastructures of many different institutions through a single integration, but also offers a shared basis of trust and the flexibility to accommodate specific requirements.
While IRIS bridges the needs of the healthcare sector and the expertise of educational institutions, WAYF makes it easier for the many institutions to meet on the same digital platform.
That is exactly what the sector’s shared identity federation is there for.
Read more about IRIS at Copenhagen Health Innovation.
Jeg ville især fremhæve **“One community – one login integration”** som en rigtig god engelsk mellemoverskrift; den bevarer rytmen og pointen i den danske meget fint.