Collaboration Platform for Higher Education

Digital infrastructure for European academic collaboration

Universities, alliances and associations use Outfox to build communities that work across institutional boundaries. Hosted in Europe, open source, eduGAIN from day one.

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Trusted by leading European institutions

Why Outfox?

Built to support inter-institutional collaboration and engagement.

Whether you're running an international degree program, a mobility project, or a research alliance, we give you the digital infrastructure to make it work.

Made for higher education

Academic workflows, community structures, and shared governance, fully supported.

Open and flexible

Customize your platform, manage your communities, and integrate the tools you already use.

Secure and European

Fully GDPR-compliant, hosted in Europe, and aligned with values of digital sovereignty.

Built for people

Designed for ease of use and strong adoption across staff, students, and partners.

Solutions

Use Outfox to...

Build vibrant Communities of Practice across institutions
Manage European University Alliances with shared governance
Coordinate Erasmus+ projects and joint degrees
Empower student engagement and alumni networks
Support research collaboration at scale

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Product

Key Features at a Glance

Groups and discussions

Create shared spaces for research, teaching, and community, beyond institutional walls.

Event management & registration

Organize seminars, webinars, and workshops with built-in registration and calendar sync.

Role-based access & permissions

Control visibility and editing rights across institutions, roles, and communities.

Federated login & SSO

Let users sign in securely with their existing institutional credentials, no new accounts needed.

Multi-language support

Engage international participants with an interface that adapts to their preferred language.

Seamless integrations

Connect with Moodle, Office365, Zoom, and more, to stay in sync with your existing ecosystem.

What collaboration between institutions needsYour members keep the tools they already run inside their own institution. This is about what happens between them.	Outfox	Single-tenant tools
One login across institutions Staff, students and researchers sign in with their own institutional account through eduGAIN.	Built in	Guest accounts
Built for academic structures Alliance governance, work packages, committees and roles.	Native	Generic workgroups
A community, not a file share News, discussions, member directories and events.	Native	Minimal
European hosting, open source Hosted in Germany and built on Drupal, so there is no lock-in.	Hetzner, Germany	Vendor-dependent
Made for everyone, not admins Designed around students, staff and researchers rather than IT administration.	Academic-first	Enterprise-IT first