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eduMEET: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

eduMEET is web conferencing software for multi-party meetings in the browser. It supports audio and video, screen sharing, chat and file sharing, and can authenticate users through OIDC, SAML or a local database. Local recording is available but disabled by default. The software was developed within the GÉANT project for research and education and is delivered as a Docker setup that organisations run on a server of their own.

The programme is hosted by The Commons Conservancy, a foundation under Dutch law. According to the repository, the GÉANT Association holds the copyright in material its project members developed. The licence is MIT and the source code is public. Organisations that host eduMEET themselves keep traffic and data on their own infrastructure, without the developers being involved. A grant from NLnet within the EU's NGI Zero programme funds work on federating several eduMEET installations for larger webinars. For a European organisation it is a self-managed alternative to hosted meeting services.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 16, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Collaboration
Type
Product
Website
edumeet.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to eduMEET

The European alternatives to eduMEET come from our knowledge base of over 9,500 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with eduMEET

eduMEET is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so eduMEET scores best on data residency.

eduMEET is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs eduMEET together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to eduMEET?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to eduMEET include Agorakit, ahead Intranet and alfaview. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to eduMEET?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to eduMEET include Agorakit, AtomicServer, CryptPad, DAVx⁵ and Nextcloud Deck. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is eduMEET GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

eduMEET is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes eduMEET an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Collaboration

Collaboration: Team communication, file sharing, video conferencing, document editing. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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