THEMA has just been awarded the "Laboratoire d’Excellence" (LABEX – i.e. excellence in research) label from the French government for the MME-DII project, within the national "Investments for the Future" funding for research programme. The goal of the MME-DII project ("Modèles mathématiques et économiques de la dynamique, de l’incertitude et des interactions") is the creation an international center of excellence fostering integrated research and training in both mathematics and economics in order to promote the development of new fundamental models of individual choices, behaviors, uncertainty and interactions and their application to a wide range of social, economic and political issues. The MME-DII project brings together scholars from 9 research centers.