European Centre for Living Technology

The European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT)[1] has been founded in 2004[2] as a part of initiatives to support Complexity Science by the European Union.

ECLT
TypeInternational research centre
Established2004
FoundersJohn McCaskill, Norman Packard, Irene Poli, and the Science Board Chairman was Marc Bedau.
ChairmanScience board Steen Rasmussen (physicist)
PresidentAchille Giacometti, Norman Packard, Rudolf Marcel Füchslin
Location
Dorsoduro 3911, 30123, Venice, Italy
CampusCa' Foscari University of Venice
Websiteeclt.eu

Role of the centre is to promote the interdisciplinary research in the field of Complex Adaptive Systems and to support scientists in their work. ECLT is hosted by Ca' Foscari University of Venice in the building of Ca' Bottacin[3] in the centre of Venice.

ECLT has the form of a Consortium of various universities and it currently involves 15 institutions from Europe and Unites States.

Founding Members
  1. Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Italy
  2. Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum - Germany
  3. University of Copenhagen - Denmark
  4. Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola - Sweden
  5. Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Spain
  6. Vilnius University, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy - Lithuania
  7. ProtoLife - USA
  8. University of Southern Denmark - Denmark
  9. Reed College - USA
  10. Los Alamos National Laboratory - USA

Added Members
  1. University of Nottingham - UK
  2. Weizmann Institute of Science - Israel
  3. Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW - Switzerland
  4. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Italy
  5. CORILA (Consorzio per la Gestione del Centro di Coordinamento delle Attività di Ricerca inerenti il Sistema Lagunare di Venezia) - Italy

Research

ECLT main scientific production is given by studies on self-organization, adaptation and more generally mathematics of life[4] moving recently to the study of network structures and structure of society.[5] As a hub for scientific discoveries the centre is also very active in grant application. From its origin 25 large projects have been financed (mostly after a competitive evaluation from European Commission, i.e FP6, FP7, H2020 and EuropeAid).

In addition to scientific collaborations, the Centre helps to develop and support high level teaching activities, as well as partnerships with academic institutions, enterprises, and individual researchers.

ECLT is a hub that provides international and interdisciplinary research activities organized in 5 Research Units which currently include:

References
  1. "Home". Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.
  2. "CORDIS | European Commission".
  3. "Riapre Ca' Bottacin: gioiello veneziano del '400, ora culla dei ricercatori". Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.
  4. Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation: 12th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2017, Venice, Italy, September 19–21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-78658-2.
  5. "Ecco come ci difenderemo dall'intelligenza artificiale". lastampa.it. February 15, 2018.
  6. Wang, Ting; Ng, Wing W. Y.; Pelillo, Marcello; Kwong, Sam (May 2021). "LiSSA: Localized Stochastic Sensitive Autoencoders". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 51 (5): 2748–2760. doi:10.1109/TCYB.2019.2923756. ISSN 2168-2275.
  7. Škrbić, Tatjana; Maritan, Amos; Giacometti, Achille; Rose, George D.; Banavar, Jayanth R. (2021-07-08). "Building blocks of protein structures: Physics meets biology". Physical Review E. 104 (1): 014402. arXiv:2011.05514. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.014402.
  8. Bardoscia, Marco; Barucca, Paolo; Battiston, Stefano; Caccioli, Fabio; Cimini, Giulio; Garlaschelli, Diego; Saracco, Fabio; Squartini, Tiziano; Caldarelli, Guido (July 2021). "The physics of financial networks". Nature Reviews Physics. 3 (7): 490–507. arXiv:2103.05623. doi:10.1038/s42254-021-00322-5. ISSN 2522-5820.
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