National Scientific and Technical Research Council

National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas

Conicet offices in Buenos Aires
Agency overview
Formed5 February 1958; 66 years ago (1958-02-05)
HeadquartersBuenos Aires, Argentina
34°34′57.24124″S 58°25′44.40274″W / 34.5825670111°S 58.4290007611°W / -34.5825670111; -58.4290007611
Employees13,393 (2018)
Annual budgetUS$ 205,000,000 (2018)[1]
Agency executive
  • Daniel Salamone, President
Websiteconicet.gov.ar
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The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET) is an Argentine government agency which directs and co-ordinates most of the scientific and technical research done in universities and institutes.

  1. ^ "Presupuesto Nacional 2018" (in Spanish).