

The following institutions are EMPA's customers within the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programme and other international environmental initiatives
- Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany
- CNRS, Roscoff, UMR with Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France
- Coalition Clean Baltic, Uppsala, Sweden
- Environmental Protection Engineering S.A. (EPE), Piraeus, Greece
- European Environmental Bureau, Brussels, Belgium
- GKSS Forschungszentrum, Geesthacht, Germany
- GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel
- Institute for Recycling and Environmental Protection, IKrW Bremen, Germany
- Konsortium Deutsche Meeresforschung, KDM
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- MR Regionalberatung, Bremen, Germany
- Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Yerseke, the Netherlands
- Optimare GmbH, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Prosciencia GmbH & Co KG, Luebeck, Germany
- UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- University of Gothenburg: The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Sweden
