A rigorous program of study, analysis and multi/inter/transdisciplinary research on complex systems will be the starting point for pursuing the following fundamental objectives of the International Research and Education Programme “CHAOS”:


- Preparing public and private leaders and managers for facing global challenges by training figures equipped to cope with complex problems, through approaches diametrically opposed to reductionist and deterministic explanations.

- Training researchers from all disciplinary fields, in multi/inter/transdisciplinary methodologies, by enhancing their awareness of epistemological, logical and ontological premises.

- Design, implementation and development of national and international research projects and the consequent establishment of global and transnational research networks.

- Definition, design, implementation and development of didactic activities and methodologies towards teaching and training complexity, systems thinking, and scientific methodology.

- Education and training in the areas of Complexity Theory and Sciences, with particular attention to the issues and dynamics inherent to educational and training processes.

- Training young PhD students and university researchers in the praxes of scientific research and complexity sciences, regardless of their respective scientific-disciplinary fields;

- Complexity for school teachers: teaching, training and updates;

- Creation and support of an international network of universities and study and research centres focusing on complexity and complex systems within various disciplinary fields and originating from different approaches.