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Pathway 02

Institutional registration

This is the pathway for universities, laboratories, schools and public bodies. It grants reading and corroboration rights — deliberately not the right to place anyone on the record.

The form below is the real institutional first step, exactly as it will be asked. In this preview it is checked in your own browser and goes no further — no account is created, nothing is transmitted, and nothing is kept once you close the tab.

Register your institution

Two blocks of questions: the institution, and the person who can act for it. Only six answers are required — the rest sharpen how your students and researchers are matched, and every one of them can be filled in later.

The institution

The registered legal name, not an abbreviation. This is the name that will appear on every corroboration your institution signs.

This decides which corroboration categories your institution is competent to confirm.

Include https://. An official domain is the fastest route through manual review.

Where the institution is legally constituted.

Used only to group institutions geographically in discovery.

The main campus, if the institution has several.

Charter, incorporation or accreditation number, if the institution has one. It shortens verification; it is never published.

Scale and structure

All optional, and all approximate. These answers only shape how the affiliation step is presented to your students and staff — nothing here is published, ranked or compared between institutions.

An estimate is fine.

How many academic units, however your institution divides them.

Which of these does the institution run? Optional

Tick any that apply. Each one unlocks a category of evidence your institution can corroborate.

Who is registering

The named person who can act for the institution. An institutional account is never anonymous: every corroboration records who signed it.

The person accountable for this account, in the order you write it.

Registrar, dean, head of department, research office — whatever fits.

An address on the institution’s own domain. A personal address cannot be used to claim authority over an institution, so verification will not accept one.

Optional now. Used only if a manual review needs to reach you.

Your password

Do not enter a password you use elsewhere

This page is a design preview, not the registration service. Nothing you type is sent, saved or remembered, and no one at YoureNX can see it — but a password typed into a page that is not yet a service is a password you should treat as spent. Invent one here, or wait until the service opens.

At least twelve characters, with upper and lower case and a number. Length matters more than symbols.

Typed again, so a slip does not lock your institution out of its own account.

What you want from YoureNX
Institutional objectives Optional

Tick as many as apply. Your answers are recorded as your stated purpose, they are auditable, and they are visible to anyone whose record your institution reads.

Before you continue

Checking happens in this browser. Nothing leaves the page, no institutional account is opened, and no verification message is sent to anyone.

What happens after this form

An institutional account is reviewed by a person before it is granted anything, because the powers it carries are worth protecting.

  1. Your address is verified on the institution’s domain

    A code goes to the institutional address you gave. A personal address cannot stand in for an institutional one, because the address is the first piece of evidence that you speak for the institution rather than about it.

  2. The institution itself is checked

    Registration, accreditation and domain are examined by a person, not a script. Where an institution already exists on YoureNX, your request is matched to it rather than creating a duplicate — and the existing account holder is told.

  3. Corroboration rights are granted category by category

    A university may confirm enrolment, results and supervision; it may not confirm a patent it had no part in. Rights follow competence, so each category is granted separately and can be narrowed later.

  4. Colleagues are added under your accountability

    Further staff can be invited, each named and each acting in their own name. Every confirmation carries the person who made it and the date they made it, and the person concerned can contest any of them.

What an institutional account can and cannot do

Can corroborate
Confirm evidence it is competent to judge, in its own name and on a date. This is the power the pathway exists to grant, and it is what moves a record from Evidence submitted to Evidence verified.
Can read
See records their holders have made institutionally visible, and search discovery for the fields and regions it works in.
Cannot add anyone
An institution cannot create a person’s record, and cannot register on someone’s behalf. Only the person can do that, through the individual pathway.
Cannot edit
Corroboration is a statement the institution signs, not an edit it performs. No institution can alter a record it did not author, and no institution can withdraw a person’s own evidence.
Cannot read the invisible
Nothing an individual has kept private is visible to an institution, including institutions they have named as their own.

Not the pathway you need?

If you are registering as a person, use the individual pathway. If you are a company, innovation hub or investor with roles, funding or facilities to place, use the industry partner pathway — it asks for what you are looking for rather than what you can confirm.

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