A vital component of the activities is to support the collaborative training of young researchers coming from individual groups involved in the network activities. It is well-recognised that computational modelling of complex systems often requires access to computational means and experiments that exceed budgets of individual groups. This network also focuses on the equally important issue of the development of skills that are necessary for the effective use of modern computational tools and facilities. For example, the training of researchers to use sophisticated software packages for the computational solution of PDEs and scientific visualisation is difficult to achieve in individual groups.

The principal goals of the network are:

• Identification of emerging problems, applications and scientific issues;
• Development of solution techniques for specific problems in the underlying research programmes of the respective nodes;
• Facilitation of the exchange of ideas from different fields and disciplines;
• Promotion of intensive interaction between research groups across the UK;
• Collaboration rather than competition amongst different groups leading to a more efficient use of resources;
• Raising of the level of training and involvement of PGs and PDRAs in multi-disciplinary research;
• Stimulation of UK research at the highest international level in the fundamentally important, rapidly developing and exciting field of computational mathematical modelling of multi-physics and multi-scale phenomena. applications.