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According to the results of WP5 survey, currently eduroam is not widespread at schools - only 10% (3 of 29 pilot schools who responded to the survey) of school principals declares that there is eduroam access at their school, only 1 school declared that its students can authenticate to eduroam.
Only 10% pilot school declares that eduroam is available at other locations, either near the school or that are usually visited by students of the school. According to analyses presented in Section 2.3, eduroam is available within 1 km from the 37% of the pilot schools, which clearly shows that students and teachers do not benefit from eduroam's potential. The issue could be further investigated in the scope of the Up2U project. At the first glance, it seems to be related to the weak popularisation of eduroam in the educational world, eduroam policies or legal issues rather than to the infrastructure limitations.
Therefore, the objective of the project seems to be justifiable - not to deploy eduroam at new places, but to study the current availability of eduroam and to investigate solutions that enable students to get access to the network at existing locations, that can be then covered by the formal and informal learning scenarios.
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Analysis has proven that availability of eduroam in the neighbourhood of the pilot schools is very high. In 43% of cases, it is possible to find eduroam access within walking distance from the school (less than 1 km). Most of the pilot schools (68%) are located less than 5 km from the closest eduroam location.
An average number of eduroam location available within 20 km from the pilot school varies from country to country and can reach up to 75.14 locations.
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