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Self-hosted / open sourceEducation & LMSHeadquarters: FR

Open ENT: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Open ENT is an open-source digital workspace (in France called an ENT, espace numérique de travail) for the whole education community: teachers, pupils and families in primary and secondary schools. The platform brings together messaging, news, a rich-text editor, forms, appointments and an overview of connected applications, and supports single sign-on and connectors to other education services. Its modular design lets each territory shape its own deployment. Open ENT is delivered as server software that a region, a department or their service provider installs and operates.

Open ENT is carried by a community of French local authorities and education bodies, which jointly steer and fund its development. The core of the software is published by Édifice, a French SAS based in Paris. The source code is available on GitHub under the AGPL v3, so an organisation can run the platform on its own infrastructure and keep control of its data. According to the project site, data is hosted securely in France.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Education & LMS
Type
Product
Website
open-ent.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Open ENT

The European alternatives to Open ENT come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Open ENT

Open ENT is headquartered in FR 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 Open ENT scores best on data residency.

Open ENT 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 Open ENT 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 Open ENT?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Open ENT include Anton, CAMPUSonline and Chamilo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Open ENT?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Open ENT include Chamilo, Claroline Connect and Forma LMS. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Open ENT GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Open ENT is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Open ENT 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 Education & LMS

Education & LMS: Learning platforms, learning management systems and educational software. 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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