• ELI Beamlines facility will be freely accesible to scientists, technologies and research plans from around the world. List of our important partners include for example the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Central Laser Facility, UK (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), the German Max-Born-Institut and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Commissariat à l’énergie atomique and finally LASERLAB-EUROPE – consortium of 26 European laser research infrastructures. We have also contacs in overseas – for example National Ignition Facility, USA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). But this list does not end there.
• Since 2006, when the preparatory phase (ELI Preparatory Phase) was inaugurated in Paris, ELI is an international project involving 40 academic and scientific institutions from 13 European countries.
• Since 2007 scientists and engineers from all partner countries work together on various aspects of the project (legal issues of organization and infrastructure, finance, science, communication, etc.).
• The ELI-PP is followed by the ELI Delivery Consortium (ELI-DC) – its goal is to build a centrally operated European research infrastructure ELI consisting of four interconnected pillars: ELI Beamlines in the Czech Republic, ELI Attosecond in Hungary and ELI Nuclear Physics in Romania. The location for the fourth pillar has yet to be determined.

The organizational structure of ELI-DC is similar to that designed for ERIC – European Research Infrastructure Consortium. The members of the ELI-DC are the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania – the Memorandum of Understanding signatory countries (the document was signed in April 2010 in Prague). ELI-PP member states are also invited and Germany, Greece and Bulgaria have already officially expressed their interest to join the consortium.