The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year, 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to. The FuturICT flagship proposal will produce historic breakthroughs and provide powerful new ways to manage challenges that make the modern world so difficult to predict, including the financial crisis.

The Spanish node involves a number of groups and institutions involving world-class researchers in ICT, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Social Sciences and Computer Science. The node is organized around Barcelona as the Spanish hub and run by a Steering Committee coordinated by a National Spokesman.