For some years now the scientific research has been going through an important transformation process partly generated by deep ideological crises in some scientific sectors and partly by a different attitude coming from the society as such. The latter, vis-à-vis research perspectives more and more oriented to ever expensive experiments up to the limit of the existing technology, tends to support and privilege interests that are not only and exclusively related to purely cognitive aspects but also to the quality of life and the environment.
The science of Complexity that shows itself as a sort of new relation between theoretical and applied science, wants to answer and meet such needs: through an interdisciplinary approach, it does not only offer a way of answering the questions asked by one science by applying and using the concepts of another, but introduces a new language that enables to formulate new questions or, even better, new grammars that foster and make new integration forms possible .

In complexity, as described in "More is different" (P.Anderson, Science, 1972), life comes from chemistry, chemistry comes from physics, consciousness from life, social awareness from the organization of individual awareness, etc.
Hence, the organization of complex systems together with their possible applications in a huge variety of production sectors is and represents the big challenge of Complexity itself.
In this context, Turin and Piedmont have been considered to have achieved national and international excellence levels in sectors such as IT, biology, quantum physics, neuroscience and economics that allow to take over the ambitious challenge of complexity coming from the scientific community; "complexity" to design, map and develop such interdisciplinary territory and environment.
Having "excellence" as goal and tool at the same time, the Lagrange Project, together with the already existing research facilities, intends to start a new path towards a new culture of innovation (research and life / research and enterprise) that may also generate a positive spin-off on the Piedmontese production system.
In this way the challenge of complexity becomes a sort of paradigm of modernity and wants to find in Turin and Piedmont one of the seats for this fundamental research..