Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia

The Ministry of Education and Science is the main funding agency for basic science in Spain. Research groups in all disciplines apply for research grants on a competitive basis. Through peer-review process the funds are distributed in typically 3-year research projects.

Complexity research is in Spain divided over different programs and initiatives. Projects are evaluated and funded following annual calls for proposals.

The Ministry has a number of different panels covering diverse scientific discipline.

Due to the inherent interdisciplinary of Complexity research projects dealing with this topic are funded in different panels: Physics, Mathematics, Biological science and Social sciences.

Through its different National Research Programmes, the Ministry allocated 249 million euros for basic research in 2003.