Group description
Our multidisciplinary research project is P2P Models, an ERC 1.5M€ to build blockchain-based collaborative economy platforms which are decentralized, democratic and distribute their profits: "Decentralized Blockchain-based Organizations for Bootstrapping the Collaborative Economy"
We are part of the GRASIA research group (Group of Agent-based, Social and Interdisciplinary Applications), doing interdisciplinary research to build free/open source web tools, with a focus on using decentralized technology and tackling social problems with a strongly applied approach. The group has researchers from computer sciences, social sciences, design, journalism, pharmacy, or gender studies.
GRASIA has researched and built tools for social movements and the commons (http://teem.works), collaborative writing (http://jetpad.net), development of federated collaborative apps (http://swellrt.org), fast development of distributed intelligent systems (http://ingenias.sf.net), distributed energy (http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/energy/), ubiquitous computing (http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/sociaal/). These tools are being applied in domains such as online communities, social movements, sustainable development, sociology, economics and organisational science.
We are at the Complutense University of Madrid, the largest university in Spain and one of the oldest universities in the world, consistently ranking as one of the top universities in Spain.