Vice-presidency for International Relations
The International Affairs of the CSIC, understood as those actions aimed at leading, planning and promotion of international relations in the European and international area; leading strategy, coordination and monitoring of CSIC's participation in competitive calls and co-management of programs at European and international level, and leading the management of contracts with international organizations, are coordinated through the Vice Presidency of International Affairs (VRI) ) of CSIC.
VRI team is composed of staff with multidisciplinary training and experience in both private and public sectors in the field of application and management of European and international grants.
The Vice Presidency count with National Contact Points and experts in different programs and working committees of H2020, as well as being collaborators of the EC in the development of management tools such as SYGMA or Participant Portal.

The staff of the VRI, in addition to having two area coordinators and four Service Managers, has a team of specialized Program technicians, as well as specialized personnel that provides support in transversal tasks of the VRI.
What we do
The VRI is structured in two functional areas: International Programs and International Cooperation and Resources. The competences of the Programs Area include the management and promotion of projects for competitive calls of European and international funding agencies. Within this area there are three Services, one for the European Framework Program, another for other International Programs (European and non-European) and a third Service in charge of the policy and strategy of CSIC in the European Commission.
The area of cooperation and resources has the competencies of managing the resources of the VRI for the promotion of internationalization and international cooperation, either through its own calls (i-link, i-coop), calls co-managed by CSIC (PICS, AECID) and international collaboration agreements. CSIC's participation in the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) is also coordinated from this area.

(PICS, AECID) y convenios de colaboración internacional. También se coordina desde este área la participación de CSIC en las ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures)
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