Founded in 1974 in Recife, Brazil, a federation of associations for the advancement of science, the INTERCIENCIA Association was chartered as a non-profit organization in Venezuela in 1975, under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC) and the Asociación Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AsoVAC). In 2017 it was also registered in Chile. The current members of INTERCIENCIA Association are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The Executive Secretariat of the INTERCIENCIA Association seats in Panama and works in coordination with the Executive Committee. The Executive Director of the Association is Mahabir Gupta, Professor of Pharmacognosia at the Universidad de Panamá. The office of the Excecutive Director is supported by the Asociación Panameña para el Avance de la Ciencia.

The INTERCIENCIA Association aims to unite the scientific communities of the Americas and promote the cooperative use of science, technology and innovation for the regional and national development. It publishes the trilingual monthly journal Interciencia in Spanish, English and Portuguese. It also organizes interdisciplinary symposia and short courses, and stimulates the creation of scientific non-governmental organizations for the advancement of science where they do not yet exist.

The member organizations of the INTERCIENCIA Association carry out scientific activities in their own countries and support or stimulate initiatives of their national agencies of science and technology. Several of the member organizations also publish scientific journals with important audiences in their countries. Every year, the member organizations of INTERCIENCIA meet in order to exchange experiences, learn about the status of science in the different countries they represent and establish common policies for science promotion in the region.

Since its creation, INTERCIENCIA has organized over 65 symposia, usually held on the occasion of the annual meetings of the member organizations. The topics of the symposia have concentrated in topics of biotechnology, biodiversity, energy, innovation, environment, international cooperation, science education and scientific policy. In recent years, INTERCIENCIA symposia have covered the fields of intellectual property, university-industry relations, incubator enterprises in pharmacology and biotechnology, ethnobotany and bioprospection for drug discovery, the future of the Amazon, indigenous knowledge, nutraceutic products, applications of biotechnology in agriculture and the pharmaceutical industry, and financing of science and technology in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The INTERCIENCIA Association has been invited as a civil society to discuss the importance of science and technology in specific meetings of the Organization of American States and in the preparatory meetings for the presidential summits of Mar del Plata (2005), Port of Spain (2009) and Panama (2010).

OFFICERS

Presidente Saliente / Past-President / MIGUEL A. BLESA, ARGENTINA
Presidente / President / AUGUSTO SÁNCHEZ VALLE, BOLIVIA
1er. Vice-Presidente / 1st Vice-President / ANA TEREZA RIBEIRO DE VASCONCELOS, BRASIL
2do. Vice-Presidente / 2nd Vice-President / JOSÉ ROBERTO VEGA BAUDRIT, COSTA RICA
Secretario / Secretary / YAJAIRA ELENA FREITES, VENEZUELA
Tesorero / Treasurer / JUAN A. JAÉN, PANAMÁ
Director Ejecutivo / Executive Director / JUAN A. JAÉN, PANAMÁ
e-mail: juanjaen11@gmail.com

ORGANIZACIONES MIEMBROS / MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS / ORGANIZAÇOES MEMBROS

ARGENTINA
Asociación Argentina para el Progreso de las Ciencias (AAPC)
Presidenta: ESTER SUSANA HERNÁNDEZ
Avenida Alvear 1711, 4o P Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: +54-11-6772-7968
FAX: +54-11-6772-7886
miblesa@cnea.gov.ar; miguelblesa@yahoo.es

BOLIVIA
Asociación Boliviana para el Avance de la Ciencia (ABAC)
Presidente: AUGUSTO SÁNCHEZ VALLE
Casilla Postal 6595
Calle 23 Calacoto , Nro 8289
La Paz
Tel: (591)22795656
Cel. (591)77223393
Email: cutosan@yahoo.es; augustosanchez@pacto-group.com

BRASIL
Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciencia (SBPC)
Presidente: ILDEU CASTRO MOREIRA
Rua María Antonia 294 4o Andar
01222-010 Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
Tel: ++ 11 33552130, ++ 1192741233
Email: presidencia@sbpcnet.org.br; ildeucastro@gmail.com

CANADA
l’Association Francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS)
Presidente: FREDERIC BOUCHARD
Directora General: SOPHIE MONTREUL
425 Rue de la Gauchetiére Est, Montréal, Québec,
H2L 2M7 Canada
Tel: (514) 8490045 Fax: (514) 8495558
e-mail: presidence@acfas.ca; http://www.acfas.ca

CHILE
Consejo de Sociedades Científicas de Chile
Presidente: JORGE BABUL
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias,
Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago de Chile
Tel: (56)(2) 2978-7450
e-mail: jbabul@uchile.cl

COLOMBIA
Asociación Colombiana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AvanCiencia)
Presidente: EDUARDO POSADA FLOREZ
Carrera 16 No. 31A-36
Código postal 111311
Bogotá, D.C. Colombia
Tel: +57 316 4186677
e-mail: info@avanciencia.org; cif.eposada@gmail.com

COSTA RICA
Promotora Costarricense de Innovación e Investigación
Presidenta : PAOLA VEGA CASTILLO
San José, Costa Rica. Apartado 10318-1000
Tel: (506) 22244172
e-mail: www.conicit.go.cr

MÉXICO
Asociación Mexicana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AMEXAC)
Presidenta: ALMA CRISTAL HERNÁNDEZ MONDRAGÓN
C. 8 de agosto de 1879, 15. Col. San Lorenzo La Cebada Xochimilco
Ciudad de México C.P.16035
Tel: (52) (55) 89836233
Tel cel: (52) (55) 22498842
Email: amexac.ac@gmail.com www.amexac.mx

PANAMÁ
Asociación Panameña para el Avance de la Ciencia (APANAC)
Presidente: JOSÉ ROGELIO FÁBREGA
Director del Centro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas e Hidrotécnicas (CIHH)
Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
Apartado: 0823-00499, Panamá, Rep. de Panamá
Tel. Oficina: (507) 560-3761; Campus Central
Fax. (507) 290-8446, Cel: (507) 61 301130
Email : jose.fabrega@utp.ac.pa

UNITED STATES
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Chief Executive Officer Officer: SUDIP PARIKH
1200 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: (202) 3266400 Fax: (202) 2894958

VENEZUELA
Asociación Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AsoVAC)
Presidenta: YAJAIRA ELENA FREITES
Av. Neverí, Edif. FUNDAVAC-AsoVAC, Colinas de Bello Monte,
Caracas, Venezuela
Tel.-Fax: (58) (0212) 7513768 – (0212) 7535802
e-mail: presidencia.asovac@gmail.com; yfreites@gmail.com