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The leaders with regard to promoting and implementing eduroam at high schools are Croatia and Hungary, in which more than one thousand schools provide eduroam networks. The two countries also reported that implementations were possible because of funding received for building or renewing IT infrastructure at schools.

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The current version of this deliverable includes all 68 170 schools that have been engaged in the project’s activities from six seven out of eight countries. No schools are yet known from Germany and Portugal. The schools are all Some of the schools were already reported in Deliverable Deliverables D7.1 and Deliverable. , D7.2. Please note that some schools appear in both the deliverables, and some appear in just one of them (see Section 3.2 of Deliverable D7.2 for information on the evolution of the lists of pilot schools). In this analysis, all such identified schools are considered., and D7.3.

Since network availability is the key to the Since network availability is the key to the always-on education concept, neither formal nor informal learning scenarios would benefit from the limitation of eduroam access to particular location types such as campuses, museums, libraries, labs or public places. Thus students and teachers should have the capability to use eduroam wherever it is available. This analysis therefore provides information on all available locations near the schools.

Analysis has shown that availability of eduroam in the neighbourhood of the pilot schools is very high. In 43% 40% 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%62%) are located less than 5 km from the closest eduroam location.

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The average number of eduroam locations available within 20 km from a pilot school varies from country to country and can reach up to 7563.14 59 locations.

Therefore, the objective of the project seems to be feasible, i.e. not to deploy eduroam at new locations, 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 then be covered by the formal and informal learning scenarios.

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The pilot schools, as well as eduroam availability in their neighbourhood, are depicted in the interactive map below (click the map). Please note that it is focused on the currently known pilot schools only, as more general information on all eduroam locations is already publicly accessible.

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The data by country is presented in the following sections.

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Number of pilot schools: 11
Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 25 24.6473
Table: Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

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Number of pilot schools: 10
Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 50.6070
Table: Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

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1.4.2.3 Italy

Number of pilot schools: 19 41
Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 19 21.79 85
Table: Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

1.4.2.4 Lithuania

Number of pilot schools: 7 71
Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 75 46.14 97
Table: Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

1.4.2.5 Poland

Number of pilot schools: 18 22
Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 64 63.44 59
Table: Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

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Portugal

Number of pilot schools: 3 8
Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 1 21.00 13
Table: Average number of eduroam locations eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

1.4.2.7 Spain

Number of pilot schools: 7
Average number of eduroams within distance of 20 km from the pilot school: 5.86
Table: Average number of eduroams within given distance from the pilot school.

Table: Number of pilot schools within given distance from any eduroam access.

2. Overview of Internet Connectivity at Pilot Schools

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