CSIC Delegation in Galicia
To allow the Institute to make the most of the capabilities associated with belonging to the CSIC, the Spanish Research Council’s Delegation in Galicia provides support from its headquarters in Santiago de Compostela.
Almost since its foundation, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) established Institutional Delegations in several Spanish regions as an essential part of its organizational structure. In fact, the delegations in Galicia and Navarre were opened in 1943. These delegations provide all the centers within their territorial scope with transversal services and encourage and enable potential collaborations to boost research and innovation. In Galicia, the Delegation provides services to eight centers in the Autonomous Community.
At IIM Headquarters, in Bouzas, we have one member of the Delegation's staff, working from Vigo as a coordinator for the Engament with Society Unit of the Delegation, providing services to all centres of CSIC in Galicia and support to IIM's own Engagement with Society Unit (UCC+I).
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In the beginning, since the 1940s, the Galician delegation was presided over by the Dean of the University of Santiago de Compostela, assisted by other board members of renowned prestige from different academic and professional fields.
In 1985, the Galician Delegation headquarters were established in the facilities of the Galician Agrobiological Research Institute (Santiago de Compostela), and José Manuel Gallardo Abuín, a research professor from the Institute of Marine Research (Vigo), was appointed its institutional delegate.
In 2004, the CSIC Delegation in Galicia moved to its current premises: an emblematic building that had previously hosted the headquarters of the Seminar of Galician Studies, listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) and located in the heart of the historic city center (Rúa do Franco, 2), just a stone’s throw from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The building was constructed in the 18th century and later restored in the 20th century by architects Vaquero and Baselga to house the headquarters of the Padre Sarmiento Galician Studies Institute, which occupied both floors until 2001; there is also a library that holds the CSIC publications archive.
