**4. Tools and methodologies within EU-IndiaGrid projects**

In this section we will briefly discuss some tools and some methodologies we successfully developed within the lifetime of the two EU-IndiaGrid projects in order to enable a full exploitation of the scientific applications we promoted. The motivations behind such development effort rely on the requirements of the user communities involved in the projects. User communities issued several requests. In particular users wanted:


In the following subsection we will highlight three different actions, one for each category listed above.
