It is a multidisciplinary unit dedicated to systematic research in the field of Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Science and Information Engineering. It works focused on research, training, and provision of specialized services in the areas of Seismic Engineering, Forest Resources, Maritime and Fluvial Engineering, Mechatronics, Metrology and Quality, pulp and paper, sustainable design, audiovisual product design and specialized information services.
It carries out multidisciplinary research in the pharmaceutical area and related fields looking for the scientific and technological advance.
It also performs pharmaceutical appraisals of medical substances and offers repetitive technical services, advice and biopharmaceutical and bioequivalent studies, dissolution profiles that benefit state and private institutions.
It develops projects of multidisciplinary character with the participation of different academic units of the College of Social Sciences, with the aim of orienting the academic labor towards the search of viable solutions to the existing problems of our society.
The Economic Sciences Research Institute is the oldest research institute of the University of Costa Rica. It begins its functions in 1955 through a cooperative plan of several state organisms and a Research Project in Economic Development of Costa Rica.
In 1960, the program was transformed into an Institute of Economic Research, and got a solid and permanent personality. In 1970, three research centers were merged and from there it arouses the current Economic Sciences Research Institute.
It makes and stimulates the systematic research on Psychology, and it promotes programs and projects of interdisciplinary character. This allows giving training services especially through courses. It also advises and collaborates with the academic units, professors and researchers to conduct studies in their academic areas.
It plans, develops and disseminates research in different branches of Legal Science. The training offered covers a great variety of themes such as General Penal Law, Copyright, Agrarian Law, International and Intellectual Property among others.
It promotes and facilitates interdisciplinary research and links its results with the guidelines and educational practices and programs of training and formation. It collaborates with the Ministry of Public Education and private entities as requested, through the services of advising, consulting and training.
It is a scientific and technical research unit, dedicated to the study of the languages of Costa Rica and neighboring areas, and to the projection of these studies to the university, national and international communities.
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