National Scientific and Technical Research Council

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Established 1958
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Budget 2011 US$400 million[1]
Address Sarmiento 440
Buenos Aires

Argentina

Website http://www.conicet.gov.ar/

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.

It was established on 5 February 1958 by a decree of the national government. Its first director was Medicine Nobel Prize Bernardo A. Houssay.

Governed by a board independent from the federal government, it funds scientific research in three basic ways. Firstly, it gives grants for collective work to research teams of well-recognized scientists of every discipline, including social sciences and the humanities. Secondly, it has a payroll of about 6,500 researchers and 2,500 technicians working as employees in different categories, from investigador asistente (assistant researcher) to investigador principal (main researcher). Thirdly, it grants scholarships for doctoral and post-doctoral studies to 8,500 young researchers from Argentina and other countries.

References

  1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Spanish)

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