Phase I of the ARIEL project is a joint initiative between the University of Victoria and TRIUMF (with support from the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and NRC) along with the following partners in the e-linac:
- University of British Columbia
- materials science
- accelerator physics
- particle & nuclear physics
- Simon Fraser University
- nuclear chemistry
- nuclear physics
- University of Alberta
- materials science
- particle physics
- University of Saskatchewan and Canadian Light Source
- University of Regina
- University of Guelph
- McMaster University
- University of Toronto
- superconducting RF technology
- accelerator physics
- Carleton University
- Universite de Montreal
- particle & nuclear physics
- Laval University
- Saint Mary's University