The Universidad Nacional del Nordeste University has a long history of scientific research within the Argentine Northeast, being a pioneer in various priority thematic areas for the region such as agricultural and forestry production, the environment and sustainability, social development, energy, and health.
The university has 1,200 researchers who carry out 360 accredited research and development projects in the main areas of knowledge such as Biological and Health Sciences as well as Basic, Applied; Social and Humanistic Sciences. Moreover, a significant number of projects are carried out with shared financing with other national organizations.
Also, the university has a Research Scholarship System that is among the oldest ones and with the largest volume of universities in the country. As part of this system, it has more than 350 undergraduate and postgraduate scholars.
To promote greater access by UNNE researchers to the competitive funds available to finance R & D & i activities, the institution has specific Oriented Research programs (PICTOS) with the National Agency for Scientific Promotion; in addition to co-financing projects with National and International institutions.
Research Institutes from the Colleges coexist at UNNE; Institutes dependent on the Rectorate and Institutes of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste University and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). They are:
The "Pedro M. Fuentes Godo" Agrotechnical Institute created in 1956 intending to develop rural extension programs and applied research in the Argentine Northeast region.
The Center for Social Studies (CES) is an interdisciplinary research, teaching, and consulting center created in 2002. It guides its scientific activity to the field of social sciences to generate a transversal space for theoretical reflection although open to the consideration of problems of the region and its society.
The Institute of Regional Medicine (IMR) is an academic and scientific unit under the Rectorate of UNNE created in 1942 and dedicated to the study and promotion of health in the Northeast of the Argentine Republic.
The Northeast Institute of Botany (IBONNE), created in 1977, has five areas: Taxonomy, Genetics, Plant Physiology, Cytogenetics and Evolution, and Anatomy. Besides, it has a Herbarium with 455,000 copies and a library with sixty thousand volumes including reference works and periodicals.
The Center for Applied Ecology of the Littoral (CECOAL) was created in 1973 to carry out basic studies on the natural resources of the region, as well as investigating the structure and functionality of the most important and characteristic ecosystems. Currently, CECOAL is a center of reference at the national and international levels in paleontological, environmental, and paleoenvironmental issues.
The Institute of Geohistorical Research (IIGHI), created in 1979, aims to work on the training of human resources, extension, and production of scientific knowledge on social, humanistic and cultural issues at NEA. Currently, the IIGHI has six nuclei and ten lines of research.
The Institute of Modeling and Technological Innovation (IMIT) was created in 2008 and it has as one of its objectives to establish a computer center that is among the most powerful in the NEA. It is intended to cover the basic needs of intensive use of computers for predictive and modeling studies of the working groups that comprise it.