The local organisers work along side the Smith Institute Faraday partnership to attract novel industrial and technological problems to ESGI, and to ensure that appropriate mathematical expertise attends the conference.

Companies that are interested in the possiblity of presenting a problem should in the first instance contact either Eddie Wilson (the conference chair) or David Allwright of the Smith Institute.

At the Smith Institute web site, there is a list of problems and reports for the 2001 and 2002 UK meetings.

ESGI is partially funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council but there is also a problem presentation fee (£1,500 in 2003), which helps to defray the full costs of the meeting. However, small or medium-sized companies (SMEs) that are participating in a Study Group for the first time currently have their fee covered by the Smith Institute Faraday Partnership, as part of its initiative to involve smaller companies in industrial-academic collaborations.

Typical details of minimum deliverables, IPR arrangements etc. are available as a printable document.