The project is funded by European Union's information technologies programme ESPRIT, as Project 21957 - CGAL. It is a joint initiative of Utrecht University (The Netherlands), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Free University Berlin (Germany), INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), RISC Linz (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel) and

Many of these sites were involved in the ESPRIT III BRA project ALCOM II, in which a large library of data structures and combinatorial algorithms has been developed at Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. This library, LEDA (Library of Efficient Datatypes and Algorithms), is now widely used at companies, research institutions, and universities.

Local coordination at Max-Planck-Institute: Stefan Schirra