The purposes of the CISSC, fixed at the moment of its institution, are the following:
- to promote inside the University of Pisa the beginning and the growth of inter-disciplinar researches on Complex Systems;
- to organise meetings (conferences, workshops, schools, seminars) where people, working on Complex Systems both inside and outside the University of Pisa, can compare their ideas;
- to realize inter-disciplinar courses, related to themes on Complex Systems, addressed to the Bachelor and Doctorate students;
- to collaborate with Italian and international centres pursuing analogous aims;
- to promote the diffusion of acquired and elaborated knowledge.