Cercia has recently won a 800K euros EU project on “Nature Inspired Computation and its Applications (NICaiA)” under the FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES call. The four year project will support international research staff exchange between EU contries and China. Cercia is the coordinator of this project, with partners from Leiden University (Netherland), University of the Basque Country (Spain), University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University , Xidian University and Shanghai Jiaotong University.