The purpose of the Society is to promote the development of all aspects of complex systems science in the countries of Europe, as well as the whole international scientific community.
In order to recognize exceptional contributions to the science of complex systems the society has established in 2014 the senior scientific award that recognize outstanding contributions of CSS members at whatever stage of their careers, and the junior scientific award aimed at recognizing extraordinary scientific achievements by CSS young researchers (within 7 years of PhD completion).
The 2018 Junior Science Prize was awarded to Márton Karsai “for his many outstanding contributions to Complex Systems science, specially for seminal works on temporal networks and Computational Social Science” during the Conference on Complex Systems on September 23-28, 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece.