The CX-Nets collaboratory gathers people from three different institutions in Europe and the US.

The Indiana University School of Informatics is at the forefront in the United States for excellence and leadership in Informatics programs, including undergraduate and graduate education, research, placement and outreach. Its goal is to provide an innovative and successful new curriculum for information technology and its applications, encouraging interdisciplinary research focused on distributed systems technology, information theory and information management, human factors and human-computer interaction, and study of the social impacts of information technology. The Complex Systems group at the School of Informatics focuses its research activity on complex adaptive systems and complex network models and their computational applications to both natural science and technology problems.

The Centre de Physique Théorique is situated on the campus of Luminy, close to Marseille, France. It is affiliated with the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Marseille Universities. The research subjects of the statistical physics group cover a broad range of topics from mathematical physics to complex systems and in particular complex networks.

The Complex Networks Lagrange Laboratory at the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation (Turin, Italy) is an integral part of the Lagrange Project. The main aim of this unit revolves around three main axis: Information Technology and infrastructure networks; Biological and Ecological networks; Social and behavioural Networks. Along with the more theoretical and basic questions of network science, applications and studies of more immediate application can be envisioned in the use of network science in the evaluation and assessment of physical properties of networked systems.