The founding members of the Centre are the universities, agencies and institutions that participate in the European PACE project. The following are the members of the project represented by their respective principal investigators, as ordered in the project: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (John McCaskill, project coordinator, Guenter von Kiedrowski), Germany; University Ca' Foscari of Venice (Irene Poli), Italy; University of Copenhagen (Peter E. Nielsen), Denmark; Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola AB (Kristian Lindgren), Sweden; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Ricard V. Solé) Spain; University of Zurich (R. Pfeifer), Switzerland; Vilnius University - Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (Arvydas Tamulis), Lithuania; Telecom Italia Learning Services (Fabrizio. Davide), Italy; ProtoLife (Norman Packard), Italy; University of Southern Denmark (Ole G. Mouritsen, H. Lund), Denmark; Dublin City University (Barry McMullin), Ireland; Reed College (Mark A. Bedau), USA; Founding individual members are Steen Rasmussen (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) and Liohai Chen (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) who are cooperating with PACE. A representative from the City of Venice - either the Mayor or the Assessore alle Politiche Comunitarie or their delegate - will have a permanent invitation to attend the Center Assemblies