Welcome to the 2025 Complexity Global School Application
Application Deadline: March 02, 2025, 23:59 MST
Wanted: Brave thinkers willing to explore new ideas about economics, policy, and governance. Early career change-makers from civil society and early career scholars are equally encouraged to apply.
Who: The Complexity Global School (CGS) is a collaboration between la Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in the USA.
Why: The world is undergoing accelerated transformations that challenge the linear thinking and siloed perspectives that dominated 20th-century global affairs. These traditional paradigms, rooted in historical hegemonic power structures shaped by enduring legacies of colonial intellectual traditions, are increasingly inadequate for addressing contemporary global challenges. In our search for new paradigms, Universidad de los Andes and the Santa Fe Institute are pioneering intellectual frameworks that are unapologetically interdisciplinary and collaborative. For nearly four decades, the Santa Fe Institute has been at the forefront of this shift, coordinating a global network of complexity scholars who advocate for non-linear ways of understanding of complex systems. This approach seeks to transcend disciplinary boundaries and develop more nuanced insights into the intricate challenges facing humanity.
What: The 2025 Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies is an intense, 12-day program that provides deep exposure to the newest complex methods, models, and frameworks for thinking about economics and governance. CGS will also provide an opportunity to collaborate on an international group project developing an idea of your choosing. The program will run from Monday, July 28th through Friday, August 8th, 2025. This program will consist of about 60 students from across the globe, students from Latin America are strongly encouraged to apply. Selected students will be early-career, deep thinkers who are either academics from a wide array of disciplines, or practitioners from government and other civil society organizations. All admitted students will be thinkers who care about the application of creative, intellectual solutions to emergent global challenges. Instructors will come from around the world, but will spend the school in residence at Universidad de los Andes. The CGS curriculum is largely based on SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, which has been running for over 30 years and whose alumni have gone on to obtain top positions in academia, government, and industry. Although this program will be of great use to individuals perusing a tenure track academic appointment, it is also highly relevant for practitioners seeking to increase their impact!
Cost: This program is completely free for all admitted students. All students will receive a fellowship covering the full costs of room, board, instruction, and materials. Participating students will also receive a stipend to cover the costs of incidentals while they attend the school. Students who are not based in Bogota, Colombia will be awarded an additional separate travel stipend.
Begin the Application Process:
Create an account to begin the application process. Once you create an account the application steps will appear on your account page and will guide you through the process. The application platform is optimized for Google Chrome but should work with other browsers.
For more program details please visit our program page HERE
Thank You!
Emergent Political Economies Program Staff
Santa Fe Institute
PLEASE NOTE: If you don't already have a SURVEY MONKEY APPLY account you will need to REGISTER for one before you apply.
2025 Complexity Global School
Welcome to the 2025 Complexity Global School Application
Application Deadline: March 02, 2025, 23:59 MST
Wanted: Brave thinkers willing to explore new ideas about economics, policy, and governance. Early career change-makers from civil society and early career scholars are equally encouraged to apply.
Who: The Complexity Global School (CGS) is a collaboration between la Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in the USA.
Why: The world is undergoing accelerated transformations that challenge the linear thinking and siloed perspectives that dominated 20th-century global affairs. These traditional paradigms, rooted in historical hegemonic power structures shaped by enduring legacies of colonial intellectual traditions, are increasingly inadequate for addressing contemporary global challenges. In our search for new paradigms, Universidad de los Andes and the Santa Fe Institute are pioneering intellectual frameworks that are unapologetically interdisciplinary and collaborative. For nearly four decades, the Santa Fe Institute has been at the forefront of this shift, coordinating a global network of complexity scholars who advocate for non-linear ways of understanding of complex systems. This approach seeks to transcend disciplinary boundaries and develop more nuanced insights into the intricate challenges facing humanity.
What: The 2025 Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies is an intense, 12-day program that provides deep exposure to the newest complex methods, models, and frameworks for thinking about economics and governance. CGS will also provide an opportunity to collaborate on an international group project developing an idea of your choosing. The program will run from Monday, July 28th through Friday, August 8th, 2025. This program will consist of about 60 students from across the globe, students from Latin America are strongly encouraged to apply. Selected students will be early-career, deep thinkers who are either academics from a wide array of disciplines, or practitioners from government and other civil society organizations. All admitted students will be thinkers who care about the application of creative, intellectual solutions to emergent global challenges. Instructors will come from around the world, but will spend the school in residence at Universidad de los Andes. The CGS curriculum is largely based on SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, which has been running for over 30 years and whose alumni have gone on to obtain top positions in academia, government, and industry. Although this program will be of great use to individuals perusing a tenure track academic appointment, it is also highly relevant for practitioners seeking to increase their impact!
Cost: This program is completely free for all admitted students. All students will receive a fellowship covering the full costs of room, board, instruction, and materials. Participating students will also receive a stipend to cover the costs of incidentals while they attend the school. Students who are not based in Bogota, Colombia will be awarded an additional separate travel stipend.
Begin the Application Process:
Create an account to begin the application process. Once you create an account the application steps will appear on your account page and will guide you through the process. The application platform is optimized for Google Chrome but should work with other browsers.
For more program details please visit our program page HERE
Thank You!
Emergent Political Economies Program Staff
Santa Fe Institute
PLEASE NOTE: If you don't already have a SURVEY MONKEY APPLY account you will need to REGISTER for one before you apply.