The Mainz Institute for Multiscale Modeling (M3ODEL) has been inaugurated! It is one of five new top-level research areas funded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate to enhance the research profile of the Johannes Gutenberg-University (see the press release, there is also a poster). The purpose of M3ODEL is to bring together experts from such different areas as physics, chemistry, molecular biology, applied mathematics, and computer science who have one common vision: To develop robust, efficient, and reliable computational models for simulating processes and quantitatively predicting properties that emerge through the interplay of multiple scales.