UNIVE has an outstanding international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Advanced research is developed in 8 departments and 20 interdisciplinary centers among which is the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT, www.ecltech.org). ECLT is dedicated to the study and creation of a new science associated with technologies which exhibit life-like characteristics, such as self-organization, adaptability, capacity to evolve and react to environmental stimuli, etc. The research, currently focused in the fields of bio-nano-technology, sustainability, innovation and ICT, is developed in collaboration with scientists belonging to the 15 European Universities and international Research Centres which are members of ECLT. The Centre hosts several types of activities, including seminars, medium- and long-term individual research visits, workshops with 10-40 people attending, conferences with attendance of 40-100 people, and public lectures. 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.