Here is a list of EMI's current partners, with specifications of the type of collaboration involved and the eventual link to the EMI partner area.
| Partner | Type of collaboration | Joint Activities | Partner area |
| EGI | Multiple: SLA, MoU ... | - To provide robust, well-designed, user-centric services to scientific user communities
- To define and monitor SLA for third-level support on incidents and requests
- To accelerate the development of standards within production grid infrastructures
- To disseminate the results of this collaboration within the remit of each project' s dissemination and communication activities such as joint events
- To exchange ideas and collaborate on the definition of sustainability models
- To collaborate in business relationships development
| EGI |
| D4Science-II | Works with EMI | - To provide D4science-II access to the EMI-managed ETICS Production Service
- To facilitate preview of EMI release
- To adopt EMI releases
- To provide EMI with timely feedback on the services and functionality under development
| D4Science |
| WeNMR | Works with EMI | - To facilitate preview of EMI release
- To adopt EMI releases
- To provide EMI with timely feedback on the services and functionality under development
| WeNMR |
| eScienceTalk | MoU | - Disseminating new applications of relevance through the e-ScienceTalk dissemination channels
- Disseminating the outputs of EMI in e-ScienceTalk publications
- Raising the awareness of other potential users and decision makers, through the presentation of the results of [PROJECT], about the usefulness of e-Infrastructures for e-Science.
- EMI will provide content and information about the project and applications of relevance to their community to e-ScienceTalk publications such as iSGTW and the policy documents, the GridBriefings
- EMI will promote e-ScienceTalk's products to its communities and contacts, for example by offering registrants to events the opportunity to subscribe to iSGTW
- EMI will offer e-ScienceTalk the opportunity to act as media sponsors for events that it organises, including adding the e-ScienceTalk logos and links to e-ScienceTalk products to the event website, in return for promotional activities for the event.
| eScienceTalk |
| EDGI | MoU, Works with EMI | - To support the development of ‘bridge middleware' federating service grids with desktop grids.
- To facilitate early access to EMI releases.
- To setup an OLA between EMI and EDGI.
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| IGE | MoU | - To facilitate the delivery of Globus-related requirements from EMI to IGE, for example in the areas of standard installation and deployment procedures
- To collaborate on standardisation and interoperability in the areas
- of Compute and Data Management for DCI middleware
- To exploit the collaboration's successes through the remit of each of the Parties' dissemination and communication activities
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| EUIndiaGrid-II | MoU | - Transfer of know-how on best practices in configuration and deployment of production services (this may cover release and change management, quality assurance guidelines, operational procedures, certification guidelines, etc)
- Participation of EU-IndiaGrid2 sites in the large scale pre-deployment testing of EMI 1 release candidates (if you agree with this, the testing period is Mar-April 2011)
- Upgrade of EU-IndiaGrid gLite sites to the latest versions included in the EMI 1 release
- Dissemination of the progress and final results of the collaboration within EU-IndiaGrid2 and EMI communities.
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| ERINA+ | MoU | - ERINA+ main activities depend on the involvement of e-Infrastructure funded projects to evaluate the impact of e-Infrastructure investments. Feedback from cooperating projects will also enable the team to develop a sound self assessment methodology by the end of the project lifetime.
- EMI will benefit from the cooperation with a team of experts in impact assessment both on the social and economic point of view. The cooperation gives EMI the opportunity to:
- Be trained for the collection of sound quantitative and qualitative indicators which can then be used by EMI to prepare a sustainability and/or exploitation plan as expected by the EC.
- Have visibility towards the European Commission as one of the projects which has cooperated with ERINA+ in the definition of a common methodology for the evaluation of impact of e-Infrastructures investments.
- Have visibility during dissemination activities performed by the ERINA+ team.
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| DECIDE | MoU | - To facilitate the adoption and exploitation of EMI services by DECIDE infrastructure
- To increase the usability of EMI services to meet the requirements of DECIDE community
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