The Manifesto, establishing Institute Para Limes, was signed on 30 August, 2005 in Ruurlo, The Netherlands.
Founding Fathers of Institute Para Limes:
- Professor Bertil Andersson (CEO European Science Foundation)
- Professor W. Brian Arthur (Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico)
- Professor Maarten Boasson (University of Amsterdam)
- Professor Rob de Boer (University of Utrecht)
- Professor Sydney Brenner (University of Cambridge, Nobel laureate)
- Professor Manuel Castells (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
- Professor Jean Pierre Changeux (Institute Pasteur, Paris)
- Professor Esteban Domingo (University of Madrid)
- Professor Manfred Eigen (Max Planck Institut, Göttingen. Nobel Laureate)
- Professor Alan Fersht (University of Cambridge)
- Professor Daan Frenkel (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics)
- Professor Tim Hunt (London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Nobel Laureate)
- Professor John Holland (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
- Professor Paul Hooykaas (University of Leiden)
- Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institut, Martinsried, Nobel Laureate)
- Professor Jean Marie Lehn (College de France, Strasbourg, Nobel Laureate)
- Professor Robert May (University of Oxford)
- Professor Erling Norrby (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
- Professor Peter Nijkamp (Free University Amsterdam)
- Professor Martin Rees (University of Cambridge)
- Professor Marten Scheffer (Wageningen University)
- Professor Peter Schuster (Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Vienna)
- Professor Ismail Serageldin (Library of Alexandria)
- Professor Jan de Vries (UC at Berkeley)
On behalf of the Foundation responsible for the initiative to develop the Para Limes Institute were:
- Professor Rudy Rabbinge (Wageningen University, Chairman)
- Dr Theo Groen
- Professor Jan Stuip
- Mr Jan Wouter Vasbinder
