The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an international non-governmental institution with associative status in UNESCO, created in 1967. Currently, it brings together 806 research and postgraduate centers in the field of social sciences and humanities in 51 countries in Latin America and other continents.

The 10 objectives of CLACSO

• Promote social research to combat poverty and inequality, strengthen human rights and democratic participation.
• Contribute, from the contributions of academic research and critical thinking, to promoting sustainable development policies in economic, social and environmental terms.
• Build bridges between social research and public policies, promoting innovative, creative and viable actions in the face of the great social, educational, cultural and environmental challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean..
• Support the formation of networks of researchers and institutions that work in the field of social sciences and humanities.
• Strengthen the academic internationalization processes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Expand South-South and North-South cooperation and academic dialogue.
• To stimulate the development and consolidation of the social sciences and critical thinking in the poorest countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Intervene in the national and regional public debate, contributing the perspectives and contributions of results-based social research.
• Collaborate with the training of government agents, social activists and professionals of the press on social, educational, cultural and environmental issues, bringing them closer to problems addressed from the social sciences and the evidence that social research provides.
• Generate open access conditions 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.