# SWITCHaai Identity Federation — University of Bern IdP

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/switchaai-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Bern — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bern/  
**Base URL:** https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml  
**Documentation:** https://www.switch.ch/aai/

SWITCHaai Identity Federation — University of Bern IdP is one of 10 APIs that [University of Bern](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bern/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, SWITCHaai, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The University of Bern operates its own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, published as machine-readable metadata in the SWITCHaai federation aggregate (the Swiss national research-and-education identity federation, part of eduGAIN). entityID https://aai-idp.unibe.ch/idp/shibboleth, mdui:DisplayName "Universität Bern", shibmd:Scope unibe.ch; SSO is delegated to SWITCH edu-ID at unibe.login.eduid.ch over the HTTP-Redirect and HTTP-POST SAML 2.0 bindings. Verified 2026-09-01 against the 21.3 MB aggregate (1,957 EntityDescriptors): 53 entityIDs sit under unibe.ch — one IdP and 52 service providers, including boris-portal.unibe.ch, boristheses.unibe.ch, exam.unibe.ch, the KSL course-system SPs and the ADFS trust at fs.campus.unibe.ch. Observed in the wild: https://www.ksl.unibe.ch/ redirects anonymous callers to the SWITCH WAYF carrying entityID=https://id-kslprod2.id-sys.unibe.ch/shibboleth. A federation is shared by definition; the IdP entity, its scope and its 52 SPs are Bern's. The federation's own metadata contract belongs to SWITCH and is not saved here.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.switch.ch/aai/
- **BaseURL** — https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml

## Other University of Bern APIs (9)

- [BORIS Portal OAI-PMH Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/boris-oai/)
- [BORIS Portal DSpace REST API (public access suspended)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/boris-rest/)
- [Bern Open Publishing (BOP Serials) OAI-PMH Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/bop-oai/)
- [Bern Open Publishing OJS REST API (token required)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/bop-rest/)
- [University Library Public Services Status API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/ub-services-status/)
- [University Library IIIF Image Server](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/ub-iiif/)
- [DataCite Membership — University of Bern (UNIBE)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/datacite-member/)
- [ROR Registry Record — University of Bern](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/ror-record/)
- [swisscovery — University Library of Bern tenant view](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bern/swisscovery-tenant/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, SWITCHaai, eduGAIN, Single Sign-On

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