Objectives

• It is an academic unit of scientific research of high quality, devoted to developing, promoting, doing, and coordinating research and dissemination in the field of History in Central and Latin America.

Main functions

• To look for a better knowledge of History inside the context of Social Sciences through scientific and applied research
• To promote research with a long-term perspective in all the areas of research developed by the University of Costa Rica
• To promote, carry out and coordinate historical research according to the general policies of the University of Costa Rica
• To integrate its activities to the exercise of undergraduate teaching, and especially to support the System of Graduate Studies
• To stimulate the formation and training of historians and other specialists of related fields providing facilities for it
• To disseminate the historical research linked to the analysis of the Costa Rican social reality, as well as Central American and our Continent
• To advise on the matter of their competence to state agencies, when requested, in accordance with the relevant regulations and facilities
• To keep relations with the institutions and foreign organisms in charge of the development of disciplines of the Center’s field of action, especially of Central America and the Caribbean
• To promote programs of social outreach generated by research

Remunerated

• Institutional history books have been developed to unions or institutions in the country, with due remuneration.

Non Remunerated

• Public conferences on research projects
• Public seminars with international and national researchers
• Open short courses
• Support to research centers in UCR campuses in the organization of research events