Associations

Join the largest global academic network on Latin America and the Caribbean

What is Clacso?
CLACSO's 10 objectives
The 10 axes of CLACSO
Why partner up?
CLACSO in data
Areas and programs

Who can become a member?

Research and/or postgraduate institutions in any field of the social sciences and humanities, based in any country in Latin America or the Caribbean. In this case, the institutions become part of the CLACSO network as FULL MEMBER CENTRES.
Research and/or postgraduate institutions with an interest in Latin America and the Caribbean, but whose headquarters are located outside of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this case, the institutions become part of the CLACSO network as MEMBER ASSOCIATE CENTERS.
Academic associations, forums, or networks that do not conduct research but carry out activities in any field of the social sciences and humanities, based within or outside of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this case, the institutions become part of the CLACSO network in the capacity of RELATED ORGANIZATIONS.

What are the main opportunities and possibilities available to you as part of the CLACSO network?

🎓 Training [+]

They have access to special discounts on CLACSO training programs.
They can apply to the annual calls for proposals to offer a Higher Diploma or a Seminar on the CLACSO virtual training platform.
They can also register their master's and doctoral degrees in the Platform for the Promotion of CLACSO Postgraduate Programsas well as publicizing the open calls for applications each semester.
👉Training and Postgraduate Network
Queries: [email protected]

🔬 Working Groups (WG) [+]

We invite centers to join the Working Groups and access their productions:
👉 Working Groups – Productions and Content
They will also be able to participate in the new international call to form CLACSO Working Groups that will open at the end of this year 2025.
Queries: [email protected]

🌎 CLACSO World – Visibility and Internationalization for the Centers [+]

You can share your center's activities and present it to the world in this exclusive section:
👉 CLACSO World
Contact: Eric Domergue, Content Coordinator – [email protected]

🎥 CLACSO TV and CLACSO Radio [+]

Your audiovisual materials and podcasts can be distributed through our channels:
👉 CLACSO.tv
👉 CLACSO Radio
Contact: Guido Fontán – [email protected]

📚 Publications and bookstore [+]

They can submit articles to the scientific journal Plots and NetworksThey can also distribute their books in the Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Bookstore and upload their productions to the repository with their own username and password:
👉 Plots and Networks
👉 CLACSO Bookstore
👉 Repository
Contact: Valeria Carrizo – [email protected]
It is also possible to propose co-editions in different formats and types of agreements:
Contact: Lucas Sablich – [email protected]

📅 CLACSO Activities Calendar [+]

Each Member Center can publish its activities on the institutional website by requesting a username and password:
CLACSO CALENDAR
Contact: Sebastián Higa, IT Coordinator – [email protected]r

📘 Postgraduate Network Collection [+]

They can participate in the Postgraduate Network's collection of publications:
👉 Postgraduate Network – Publications

🎓 Promoting research. Scholarships and calls for proposals [+]

They can apply to the various research calls organized by CLACSO.
They can propose new research calls to co-organize with the CLACSO Research Promotion Area:
👉 Scholarships and competitions
Queries: [email protected]

🧭 FOLEC – Scientific Evaluation [+]

We invite you to participate in the Latin American Forum on Scientific Evaluation (FOLEC), a regional space to rethink evaluation policies from the Global South.
They will be able to take advantage of the tools, advice, and training provided by FOLEC:
👉 FOLEC CLACSO
Contact: [email protected]

📧SILEU – Latin American University Evaluation System [+]

They will be able to request an evaluation and accreditation process of the comprehensive academic quality of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at their center in a co-construction that is situated in the characteristics of each center.
👉SILEU
Contact: [email protected]

📢 CLACSO communication channels and news [+]

To stay informed about institutional news, calls for proposals, publications, activities and events, you can follow and subscribe to our official channels:
👉 Website: clacso.org
👉 WhatsApp Channel: CLACSO on WhatsApp
👉 Telegram Channel: CLACSO on Telegram
👉 Social media:

El Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) It is an international non-governmental institution with associative status at UNESCO, created in 1967. Currently, it brings together 898 research and postgraduate centers in the field of social sciences and humanities in 56 countries in Latin America and other continents.

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Promote social research to combat poverty and inequality, strengthen human rights and democratic participation.
To contribute, through the contributions of academic research and critical thinking, to promoting sustainable development policies in economic, social and environmental terms.
To bridge the gap between social research and public policy, promoting innovative, creative and viable actions in the face of the major social, educational, cultural and environmental challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean.
To support the formation of networks of researchers and institutions working in the field of social sciences and humanities.
Strengthening academic internationalization processes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Expand South-South and North-South academic cooperation and dialogue.
To stimulate the development and consolidation of social sciences and critical thinking in the poorest countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
To intervene in the national and regional public debate, contributing the perspectives and insights of results-based social research.
To collaborate in the training of government agents, social activists and press professionals on social, educational, cultural and environmental issues, bringing them closer to problems addressed from the social sciences and the evidence provided by social research.
To create conditions for open access to Latin American and Caribbean academic production, contributing to the democratization of access to knowledge and allowing its more active use by public policy managers, social and citizen organizations, the press and the university system itself.

Reduction of inequalities and social injustice.
Combatting racism, ethnic and gender discrimination.
Guarantees and legal protection in migration and human mobility processes.
Defense of public education and expansion of the right to quality education for all.
Contribution to the development of peace processes.
Promoting open access and the democratization of knowledge.
Promotion of citizen security policies and combating violence.
Promotion of the rights of children and young people.
Promoting participation, citizen mobilization, and strengthening democracy.
Promotion of economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development policies.

CLACSO is the largest academic network in Latin America and the Caribbean. It brings together 898 research and postgraduate institutions from 56 countries across the continent, as well as from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Russia. It organizes hundreds of academic activities each year, attracting more than 15.000 researchers from around the world.

It was created in 1967 through an initiative of UNESCO, an organization with which it maintains consultative status today. Its objective is to promote international academic exchange and cooperation in the field of social sciences and humanities.

Who can participate in CLACSO?

Research and/or postgraduate institutions in any field of the social sciences and humanities, based in any country in Latin America or the Caribbean. In this case, the institutions become part of the CLACSO network as FULL MEMBER CENTERS.
Research and/or postgraduate institutions with an interest in Latin America and the Caribbean, but whose headquarters are located outside of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this case, the institutions become part of the CLACSO network as ASSOCIATE MEMBER CENTERS.
Academic associations, forums, or networks that do not conduct research but carry out activities in any field of the social sciences and humanities, based within or outside of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this case, the institutions become part of the CLACSO network as AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS.
Institutions interested in joining CLACSO must associate themselves in the category that corresponds to their characteristics.

What advantages and opportunities does being an "Associate Member Center" offer to CLACSO?

To integrate into and participate in one of the world's largest and most representative academic networks. Furthermore, to be able to participate in many of the cooperation, exchange, and production activities developed by CLACSO. For example,

that its researchers and students can participate in any of the 110 Working Groups that the Council has (which develop more than 400 academic activities per year inside and outside of Latin America).
to be part of the CLACSO Postgraduate Network, made up of more than 700 postgraduate programs (master's and doctoral degrees) in 26 countries.
to have information and support for the organization of visits or academic stays of postgraduate students or research teams in any Latin American or Caribbean country.
include all its institutional academic output (and that of its researchers) in the CLACSO Virtual Library, one of the world's largest digital repositories in the field of social sciences and humanities, with more than 1 million monthly downloads.
include all its audiovisual production on CLACSO TV, an audiovisual platform with more than 1.000 hours of programming, with its own productions and a huge archive of access to the productions and records of the institutions that participate in the Council.
upload all of their bibliographic production to the Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Bookstore, thus being able to disseminate it and having a link there to their own sales and marketing system.
to carry out co-editions with CLACSO Libros and access the extensive international publishing distribution network available to the Council.
participate in the activities of the South-South Programme, a broad space for exchange and cooperation with academic institutions in Africa and Asia, developed in agreement with far-reaching regional institutions such as the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS).
participate in the Virtual Courses and International Schools offered and organized by the Postgraduate Network.
participate in the various activities promoted by the Program of Studies on Poverty and Inequality (meetings, schools, workshops).
to participate and intervene in the Latin American and Caribbean Conferences on Social Sciences, which are held every three years and constitute one of the most relevant academic events worldwide.
participate in the CLACSO General Assemblies, also held every three years within the framework of the Conferences.

How can an institution become a member of CLACSO?

The procedure is very simple and can be done online in a few minutes. Click here to enter the association system.

What is the cost to participate in CLACSO?

Full Member Centers pay an annual membership fee of USD 1.000 (one thousand US dollars). This membership fee entitles them to direct financial support from CLACSO through research grants or scholarships, participation in Working Groups, publications, and full or partial scholarships for any of the activities offered by the Virtual Training Space. Furthermore, Member Centers participate with voice and vote in the General Assemblies and have representation on the Council's governing bodies, as well as the right to elect the institution's Executive Director from among their members.

Associate Member Centers pay an annual membership fee of USD 700 (seven hundred US dollars). This membership fee entitles them to receive direct financial support from CLACSO through research grants or subsidies, participation in Working Groups, publications, and full or partial scholarships for any of the activities offered by the Virtual Training Space. Furthermore, Associate Member Centers participate in General Assemblies with voice but without vote and have no representation on the governing bodies.

Affiliated organizations do not pay membership fees. For this reason, they cannot receive any direct financial contributions from CLACSO nor do they participate with a vote in its General Assemblies or governing bodies.

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