The OnyxCeph³™ software has been used for years at many university orthodontic institutions not only in connection with treatment measures and research, but also for educational purposes.
In Europe, these include almost all universities in Germany and all in Austria and Switzerland, as well as university clinics in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, and last but not least, the largest such orthodontic training institution in Europe, the Guys and St Thomas Hospital in London.
In addition, the software is frequently used for doctoral studies, research projects and other scientific work, as well as in the context of various long-term courses.
Naturally, against the background of a wide variety of organizational forms and teaching content, there are a large number of scenarios that are desired for optimal use of the software.

Often problematic from a licensing and data protection perspective is the required access to as many of the available diagnostic and planning functions by as many/all students as possible.
Currently, due to the shift from classic courses to various forms of eLearning, the demand for local (decentralized) use outside the university network is playing an increasingly important role.
In order to clearly separate productive and teaching use, many institutions already use a separate (usually virtual) training server with its own license, on which only anonymized data sets or data sets released for this purpose are processed.
Such education servers can then be accessed within the university network with hardware approved for this purpose (e.g., in the computer cabinet or with mobile devices).
However, this requires an infrastructure that cannot be secured in terms of space and IT at all institutions and, even if it can be, can only be used at certain times and by a limited number of students at the same time.

In order to enable the effective, but for Image Instruments also practical, economically viable and legally compliant use of OnyxCeph³™ for education and training purposes, a special OnyxCeph³™ EDU training license will be offered from 2021 at a flat rate of EUR 5,000 for universities that already have a productive OnyxCeph³™ LAB or OMS license. Such EDU license can include any of the available optional modules, but cannot be used for commercial purposes.
In addition to the use of such an EDU license in the local educational network, enrolled students of the university can also use the software non-commercially on a private notebook as a single-user license for a nominal fee of EUR 100 per year plus EUR 99 for software maintenance (updates, upgrades). Each of these personalized single-user licenses must be legitimized by the university.