Latin American Council of Social Sciences

CLACSO

Latin American Council of Social Sciences
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
Founded	1967
Founded at	Estados Unidos 1168, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type	international NGO
Region	Latin America Caribbean
Fields	Social sciences
Membership	Radical Open Access Collectives
Secretary General	Karina Batthyány
Affiliations	Progressive International[1]
Website	http://www.clacso.org/ *http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/

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.