The research lines of MC2 at the University of Valencia have a trajectory that can be traced back to the mid-1990s when some of its members made a firm commitment to academic specialties such as Culture and Education. This is the case of the members of the Research Unit in Economics Applied to Culture; Salvador Carrasco and Pau Rausell, and Luis E. Vila in Economics of Education.

These two lines of work converge in a unit of quantitative methods in 2007, forming MC2 and incorporating the rest of the researchers that form it. Its objective is plural, to provide techniques and methodologies to carry out analysis of social and political sectors linked to development; to advance research, development and innovation in economics, sustainability and evaluation of public policies; and finally, to transfer and implement the knowledge and research developed to society as a whole.

Since then, the members of MC2 have contributed and participated in countless research and international projects such as the project for the creation of the Ibero-American Observatory of Culture (OIBC), sponsored by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) or the Evaluation of Spanish Cultural Cooperation at the request of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the project for the elaboration of the System of Local Cultural Indicators of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), and an information system for the management of the Cervantes Institute. It is also in this same period when Luis Vila, participates in projects related to higher education through European Union projects such as the REFLEX Project, or the PROFLEX project on the monitoring of graduates in Latin America.