The European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT) is an international Research Centre dedicated to the study and creation of a new generation of technologies which embody the essential properties of life, such as self-organization, adaptability, capacity to evolve and react to environmental stimula, etc. The research, focused mainly in the bio-nano-technology and synthetic biology sectors, is developed in collaboration with scientists belonging to the 15 European Universities and international Research Centres which are members of ECLT. The experimental research of the Centre is undertaken at the Laboratory in Torre Hammon at VEGA, the scientific and technological park of Venice. The object of the research is the design and creation of biological components non existent in nature, proteins and new alternative biological structures. The Centre is also an international meeting point for the development both of basic research and the creation of new technologies for the productive sector and the transfer of these technologies to various sectors such as pharmaceutics, medicine and the environment.

	System and Synthetic Biology ECLT actively works on theoretical and practical aspects related to the creation of synthetic proteins and new alternative biological structures. In addition, we exploit synthetic biology tools to dissect the interactome of biological networks relevant for human health.
	Complex Systems As part of its basic research, ECLT collaborators explore several fundamental aspects of complex dynamical systems and networks.
	Evolutionary Statistics and Data Mining This area involves the development of techniques for modeling and analyzing high dimensional data, including neural networks and genetic algorithms.
	Biological Computation Cells compute in ways that are different from those performed by computers. Using a novel approach to biocomputation, we are exploring the problem of how to build complex computations using engineered cells.
	Artificial Evolution We exploring the dynamics of digital organisms (from viruses to multicellular organisms and ecosystems)using in silico models of their life cycle, assembly properties and genome complexity.
	Innovation and Sustainability This ambitious project proposes to examine in depth the relationship and interactions between two of the dominant issues of the day – how to achieve sustainability, and how to be innovative.