In the frame of the 2010 Call for the Campus of International Excellence of the Education Ministry, the project Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia (CEICS), promoted by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and in which the ICIQ is a member, has recived the qualification of “Campus of International Excellence” in the regional category. Thanks to this acknowledgement, the CEICS project will recieve € 3 M.The ICIQ is one of the constituent members of CEICS’ promoting Association and it plays an essential role within this project in the Chemistry and Energy subcampus. Thus, ICIQ’s participation is key in the proposal of the future PhD School in the field of Chemistry together with the URV, the Universidad de Zaragoza and the CSIC.The CEICS represents the consolidation of the strategic aggregation of the different entities and teaching, research and knowledge transfer structures and the productive sector of Southern Catalonia with the aim of becoming an international model in the fields of Chemistry and Energy, Nutrition and Health, Tourism, Enology, and Patrimony and Culture.