The primary partners of CIMPA are the institutional members of the Steering Council which develops the strategy and the scientific policy of CIMPA:
- Académie des Sciences (France)
- Comité Español de Matemáticas (CEMAT) (Spain)
- Comisión Española de Coopéración con la UNESCO (Spain)
- Commission nationale française pour l'UNESCO (France)
- Institut de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) (France)
- Institut des Sciences Mathématiques et de leurs Interactions (INSMI-CNRS) (France)
- Norwegian Mathematical Society (Norway)
- Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME) (Spain)
- Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) (France)
- Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) (France)
- Société Mathématique de France (SMF) (France)
- Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO) (Spain)
- Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada (SEMA) (Spain)
- Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (SCM) (Spain)
- Swiss Mathematical Society (SMS) (Switzerland)
Being part of the Laboratoire d'Excellence CARMIN (Centre d'Accueil et de Rencontres Mathématiques INternationales), CIMPA works in close collaboration with the three other CARMIN's members:
- Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) (France)
- Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) (France)
- Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) (France)
The CIMPA has signed agreements of cooperation with several institutions:
- Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques (Morocco)
- African Institute of mathematical Sciences (AIMS) (South Africa)
- Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Spain)
- Instituto National de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) (Brazil)
- Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (Inria) (France)
- Ministerio de Ciencia, tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva de la Republica Argentina (MinCyT) (Argentina)
- Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
- University of Arba Minch (Ethiopia)
- Université Côte d'Azur (France)
Most of CIMPA's activities benefit from close ties established by CIMPA with the following international organisations:
- Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)
- Committee for Developing Countries (CDC) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS)
- International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
- Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
Close partners of CIMPA also include several continental mathematical unions, for example through the funding of Schools in Partnership:
- African Mathematical Union (AMU)
- Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe (UMALCA)
- South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS)
- Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association (SAMSA)
- West Asia Mathematical Schools (WAMS)
Other CIMPA's partners:
- Association pour la Promotion Scientifique de l'Afrique (APSA) (France)
- Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées (CARI)
- Centro de Modelamiento Matematico (CMM) (Chile)
- Comité National Français des Mathématiciens (CNFM) (France)
- Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV) (Germany)
- Gesellschaft für AngewandteMathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) (Germany)
- International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (France)
- Mathrice (France)
- Soutien aux Activités de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématique en Afrique (SARIMA) (France)
- UNESCO