{"id":2597,"date":"2017-08-21T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/?page_id=2597"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:27:20","slug":"interciencia-association","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/the-journal\/interciencia-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Interciencia Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interciencia Associattion<\/h2>
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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 Ci\u00eancia (SBPC) and the Asociaci\u00f3n 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.<\/p>\n

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 Panam\u00e1. The office of the Excecutive Director is supported by the Asociaci\u00f3n Paname\u00f1a para el Avance de la Ciencia.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

OFFICERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Past-President \/ Marisol Aguilera Meneses, Venezuela
\nPresident \/ Miguel \u00c1ngel Blesa, Argentina
\n1st Vice-President \/ Augusto S\u00e1nchez Valle, Bolivia
\n2nd Vice-President \/ Guillermo Arturo Vicente Le\u00f3n, Costa Rica
\nSecretary \/ Eduardo Posada, Colombia
\nTreasurer \/ Juan A. Ja\u00e9n, Panam\u00e1
\nExecutive Director Ejecutivo Mahabir P. Gupta, Panam\u00e1
\ne-mail: mahabirpgupta@gmail.com<\/p>\n

MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

ARGENTINA<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Argentina para el Progreso de las Ciencias
\n(AAPC)
\nPresident: Ester Susana Hern\u00e1ndez
\nAvenida Alvear 1711, 4\u00ba P Buenos Aires, Argentina
\nTel: (54)(11) 6772-7968
\ne-mail: shernand@df.uba.ar<\/p>\n

BOLIVIA<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Boliviana para el Avance de la Ciencia
\n(ABAC)
\nPresident: Augusto S\u00e1nchez Valle
\nGerente General Pacto S.R.L.
\nCalle F. Guachalla #342
\nSopocachi
\nEdif. Victor ofic. 701
\nCasilla Postal 6595
\nLa Paz
\nTel: (591 2) 2445459
\ne-mail: cutosan@yahoo.es; augustosanchez@pacto-group.com<\/p>\n

BRASIL<\/strong>
\nSociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ci\u00eancia
\n(SBPC)
\nPresident: ILDEU CASTRO MOREIRA
\nRua Mar\u00eda Antonia 294, 4o Andar
\n01222-010 Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil
\nTel: ++ 11 33552130, ++ 1192741233
\ne-mail: presidencia@sbpcnet.org.br, ildeucastro@gmail.com<\/p>\n

CANADA<\/strong>
\nl\u2019Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas)
\nPresident: Frederic Bouchard
\nDirectora General: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Drainville
\n425 Rue de la Gaucheti\u00e9re Est, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec,
\nH2L 2M7 Canada.
\nTel: (514) 8490045 Fax: (514) 8495558
\ne-mail: presidence@acfas.ca; http:\/\/www.acfas.ca<\/p>\n

CHILE<\/strong>
\nConsejo de Sociedades Cient\u00edficas de Chile
\nPresident: Jorge Babul
\nDepartamento de Biolog\u00eda, Facultad de Ciencias,
\nUniversidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago de Chile
\nTel: (56)(2) 2978-7450
\ne-mail: jbabul@uchile.cl<\/p>\n

COLOMBIA<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Colombiana para el Avance de la Ciencia (ACAC)
\nPresident: Eduardo Posada Florez
\nApartado A\u00e9reo 92.581 – Bogot\u00e1, D.E., Colombia
\nTel: (571) 221-6769 \/221-4625 (Rosa In\u00e9s Asist. Ejecutiva)
\ne-mail: presidencia@acac.org.co; direccion@acac.org.co;
\ncif_eposada@gmail.com<\/p>\n

COSTA RICA<\/strong>
\nConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y
\nTecnol\u00f3gicas (CONICIT)
\nPresident: Giselle Tamayo Castillo
\nSan Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica. Apartado 10318-1000
\nTel: (506) 22244172
\ne-mail: tamayo.castillo@gmail.com; www.conicit.go.cr<\/p>\n

M\u00c9XICO<\/strong>
\nConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda (CONACYT)
\nDirector General: Enrique Cabrero Mendoza
\nAve. Insurgentes Sur 1582, 7\u00ba Piso
\nColonia Cr\u00e9dito Constructor, Deleg. Benito Ju\u00e1rez C.P. 03940 D.F. M\u00e9xico
\nTel: (52) (55) 53 22 7700 ext. 7000; Fax: (52) (55)327 7609\/ 7614
\ne-mail: cabrero@conacyt.mx www.conacyt.mx<\/p>\n

PANAM\u00c1<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Paname\u00f1a para el Avance de la Ciencia (APANAC)
\nPresident: Mart\u00edn E. Candanedo G.
\nUniversidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1
\nApartado: 0823-00499, Panam\u00e1, Rep. de Panam\u00e1
\nTel. Oficina: (507) 560-3010; (507) 560-3003;
\nFax. (507) 264-0789, Cel: (507) 6671-2245
\nemail: martin.candanedo@utp.ac.pa<\/p>\n

UNITED STATES<\/strong>
\nAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
\nChief International Officer: Rush Holt
\n1200 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA
\nTel: (202) 3266400 Fax: (202) 2894958<\/p>\n

VENEZUELA<\/strong>
\nAsociaci\u00f3n Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia (AsoVAC)
\nPresident: Marisol Aguilera Meneses
\nAv. Never\u00ed, Edif. FUNDAVAC-AsoVAC, Colinas de Bello Monte,
\nCaracas, Venezuela
\nTel.-Fax: (58) (0212) 7513768 – (0212) 7535802
\ne-mail: presidencia.asovac@gmail.com; maguiler@usb.ve<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2584,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597\/revisions\/4238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interciencia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}