Sponsors and Collaborators

Sponsors

Since its creation, ACAL has been sponsored by the following organizations:

  • Simón Bolívar Foundation for the Latin American Academy of Sciences · FSB-ACAL
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization · UNESCO and it’s Regional Office for Science and Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean · ORCYT-UNESCO.
  • International Council for Science · ICSU
  • THE WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES for the advancement of science in developing countries · TWAS
  • Inter-American Network of Academies of Science · IANAS

Collaborators

With the ACAL, the respective national science and technology bodies, universities, and research institutes, both public and private, have cooperated to carry out scientific activities in the various countries of the region.

The Academy has received support and carried out joint activities with UNESCO, in particular with ORCYT-UNESCO based in Montevideo, with TWAS and is associated with ICSU and IANAS.

When ACAL has held meetings and other scientific activities in various countries of the region, it has received important support from local organizations such as CONICET and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Federico Santa María University and the Catholic University of Chile, Chile; PEDECIBA, the Ministry of Education and the University of the Republic of Uruguay, Uruguay; the CNPq, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of São Paulo in Brazil, Brazil; CONCITEC and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru; CONACYT, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico; the CONICIT of Venezuela, the Vollmer Foundation, the Andrés Bello Foundation, the José Gregorio Hernandez Foundation for Science (FUNDACIENCIA), the Alberto Vollmer Foundation (AVF), the Polar Foundation, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), the Simón Bolívar International Center for Scientific Cooperation (CICCSB) and IDEA, Venezuela.

The Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain has also cooperated with ACAL and has received support from the German Association for Scientific Research (DFG).

The Alberto Vollmer · AVF Foundation for its decision to sponsor Travel Funds for participants in the annual meeting of the ACAL Council and in the scientific activity carried out jointly in the country hosting the meeting.