From 9 to 11 October, 100xCiencia will be held in Palma de Mallorca, an annual event that brings together representatives of the centres and units accredited with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu seal of excellence, including ICMAT. The main objective of this event, now in its eighth year, is to forge interdisciplinary collaborations and exchange experiences. This year’s programme focuses on current digital and environmental challenges.

With the slogan ‘Islands of knowledge in a complex world in transition’, the 100xCiencia.8 congress will be held in Palma de Mallorca from 9 to 11 October, bringing together representatives of the Spanish research centres and units accredited with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu seal of excellence by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, including ICMAT. There are currently 68 centres or units with this distinction, ‘which is an all-time high’, says Javier Aramayona, director of ICMAT.

The programme includes both activities open to the general public and those restricted to the SOMMa community (Alliance of Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu centres and units). Its aim is to ‘explore how interdisciplinary collaboration and the analysis of complex systems can address and find solutions to specific digital and environmental challenges’, according to the conference website.

On 9 October, all interventions, open to the public, will have a common theme: ‘Transformative dialogues: facing the challenges of a whole world in transition’. There will be talks on the role of science in society, how scientific knowledge is used to find solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges, as well as on networks (social, cellular or neural) and climate change. In addition, there will be a dialogue with the public.

On 10 and 11 October, activities will be restricted to the SOMMa community. There will be networking sessions and working groups, as well as round tables on complex systems and the challenges of today’s world, climate emergencies and biodiversity loss, and reflections on objectivity, biases and epistemic virtues in scientific practice.

The event, which is held annually, is organised this year by  Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) and SOMMa Alliance.

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