Institutional AI Sovereignty Through Gateway Architecture: Implementation Report from Fontys ICT

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• Title: Institutional AI Sovereignty Through Gateway Architecture: Implementation Report from Fontys ICT
• ArXiv ID: 2512.08978
• Date: 2025-12-04
• Authors: Ruud Huijts, Koen Suilen

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To address the fragmented, high-risk and inequitable adoption of commercial AI tools, we designed and operated an institutional AI platform in a six-month, 300-user pilot. The aim was to demonstrate that a university of applied sciences can offer advanced AI capabilities on its own terms, with fair access for all students and staff, transparent risks, controlled costs and full alignment with European law. Commercial AI subscriptions proved incompatible with that mission. They create unequal access, because only those who can pay receive robust AI support, and they introduce serious compliance risks through opaque data processing, non-EU hosting and provider-centric terms of use. At the same time, simply banning such tools is neither realistic nor desirable in education. The institution needs a way to make powerful AI available in a form that is sovereign, accountable and compatible with its public role. Our solution is a governed gateway platform with three tightly integrated layers: Frontend: A familiar, ChatGPT-style interface tied to institutional identity (single sign-on). It gives every student and staff member the same secure entry point to AI, makes model choice explicit and surfaces key information such as hosting region an...

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