Latin American Council of Social Sciences

CLACSO
Latin American Council of Social Sciences
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
Founded1967
Founded atEstados Unidos 1168, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Typeinternational NGO
Region
Latin America Caribbean
FieldsSocial sciences
Membership
Radical Open Access Collectives
Secretary General
Karina Batthyány
AffiliationsProgressive International[1]
Website

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an national non-governmental institution, created in 1967 from an initiative of UNESCO, an institution in which it has Associative status. Currently, it brings together 680 research centers and postgraduate programs (masters and doctorates) in various fields of the social sciences and humanities, located in 51 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in the United States, Africa and Europe. Its headquarters are in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[2] The current executive secretary of the organization is Karina Batthyány (period 2019-2021).

The objectives of the Council are the promotion and development of research and teaching of Social Sciences; the strengthening of exchange and cooperation between institutions and researchers from within and outside the region; and the adequate dissemination of the knowledge produced by social scientists among social forces and movements and civil society organizations. Through these activities CLACSO contributes to rethinking, from a critical and plural perspective, the integral problems of Latin American and Caribbean societies.

  1. ^ "Members". Progressive International. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Centros asociados". CLACSO (in Spanish).