Departments of the Vice Rector’s Office for Research

• Vice Rector’s Office for Research
• Advisory Council of The Vice Rector’s Office for Research (COVI, its acronym in Spanish)
• Research Management Department (DGI)
  • Quality Management Unit (UGC)
  • Projects Unit
  • Promotion Unit
• Administrative Management Department (DGA)
  • Computing 
  • Archive
  • Budget
• Legal Counseling
• Institutional Representatives

Units ascribed to the Vice Rector’s Office for Research

• Unit for the Management and Transference of Knowledge for Innovation (PROINNOVA)
• University Agency for Entrepreneurship Management (AUGE)
• Museum of the University of Costa Rica (museum + UCR)
• Special Research Unit Network of Protected Areas (RAP)
• Experimental Farm Santa Ana (FESA, for its acronym in Spanish)
• Information and Knowledge Society Institutional Program (ProSIC,for its acronym in Spanish)

SYSTEMS OF THE VICE RECTOR’S OFFICE FOR RESEARCH

• Libraries, Documentation and Information System (SIBDI,for its acronym in Spanish)
• Graduate Studies System (SEP,for its acronym in Spanish)
• Editorial System for Scientific Dissemination of Research (SIEDIN,for its acronym in Spanish)

COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES

• Institutional Commission of Biodiversity
• Ethical Scientific Committee-UCR
• Institutional Committee for the Care and Use of Animals
• Evaluation Council of the Vice-rectory for Research (CEVI)

Other Units attached to the Vice Rector’s Office for Research

• University Space for Advanced Studies (UCREA, for its acronym in Spanish)

Academic and Research Units