This research project aims to bring together and consolidate the cooperation of a group of researchers with deep-rooted expertises and skills in different areas close or directly related to the AGN phenomenon, and with important national and international collaborations.

We plan to make significant contributions to the resolution of some of the most important challenges in the research frontiers of AGNs covering a large range of intrinsic luminosities (from LINERs to QSOs), accretion rates (low and high), and redshifts (from the local volume to high-z objects), and for the first time integrating also the perspective allowed by numerical simulations. At the smallest scales, we plan to study the physical properties of the central engine specially in radio loud quasars, to determine the properties of the obscuring torus in LINERs and Seyferts, to test the Unified Model in Seyferts and to analyze the eventual disappearance of the BLR at the lowest AGN luminosities and/or accretion rates.