Major Argentine university active in EU researcher mobility across physics, social sciences, food genomics, and Latin American heritage studies.
UNLP is a major Argentine public university whose multiple faculties participate in EU-funded researcher mobility and exchange programs across a remarkably wide range of disciplines — from condensed matter physics and astrophysics to social sciences, history, and agricultural genomics. Their primary role in H2020 has been as a third-party or partner institution in MSCA-RISE staff exchange networks, providing Latin American research expertise and institutional infrastructure to European-led consortia. They contribute specialized knowledge in physical sciences (confinement phenomena, nanomaterials, magneto-thermal sensing), social and historical analysis (colonial empires, inequality, science history), and food-related biosciences (wine microbiology, legume genetic resources).
CONIN (confinement in inhomogeneous/ionic systems), INFUSION (optoelectronic interfaces, carbon nanomaterials), and ULTIMATE-I (magneto-thermal sensors, spin effects) span a decade of physical sciences work.
INCASI (social inequalities, gender, trajectories), RESISTANCE (rebellion in Iberian empires), and SciCoMove (museum collections, history of science) demonstrate strong humanities and social science capacity.
MICROWINE (wine microbial metagenomics) and INCREASE (food legume genetic resources, genomics, citizen science) show applied life science capability.
POEMS focuses on massive stars, stellar winds, mass-loss, and pulsations — a specialized but active research line.
MIREL (mining and reasoning with legal texts) and RUC-APS (ICT solutions for uncertain conditions) indicate capacity in applied informatics and data processing.
MAT4TREAT focused on developing materials for organic pollutant removal in tertiary water treatment.
In the early period (2015–2018), UNLP's H2020 engagement centered on applied topics: water treatment materials, wine microbiology, social inequality analysis, and ICT solutions — suggesting initial engagement was driven by individual research groups finding European partners. From 2019 onward, the portfolio shifted toward fundamental sciences — astrophysics (POEMS), protein structure bioinformatics (REFRACT), magneto-thermal sensing (ULTIMATE-I) — alongside continued historical and social research. The broadening into more fundamental research lines and the addition of food legume genomics (INCREASE) suggest growing institutional familiarity with EU frameworks and deeper faculty-level engagement.
UNLP is expanding its EU engagement from applied niche topics toward fundamental physical sciences and interdisciplinary heritage research, suggesting more faculties are now actively seeking European collaboration.
UNLP never coordinates — all 13 projects are as partner or third party, with 11 of 13 being MSCA-RISE staff exchange actions where they serve as a non-EU host or sending institution. This means they participate in large, multi-partner mobility networks (168 unique partners across 45 countries) rather than leading research agendas. Working with UNLP means gaining access to a well-connected Argentine university for researcher exchanges, Southern Hemisphere fieldwork, and Latin American domain expertise, but project leadership and administrative management will need to come from the European side.
With 168 unique consortium partners spread across 45 countries, UNLP has one of the broadest international networks of any Argentine institution in H2020 — a direct result of participating in numerous large MSCA-RISE mobility networks that typically include 10-20 partners each.
As a large, comprehensive Argentine university, UNLP offers something most European partners cannot: a gateway to Latin American research communities, datasets, field sites, and perspectives. Their exceptionally diverse project portfolio — spanning physics, astrophysics, social sciences, food genomics, and history — means multiple faculties are experienced in EU collaboration procedures, making them a reliable non-EU partner for MSCA and other mobility schemes. For consortium builders needing a South American partner with proven H2020 track record, UNLP is one of the most experienced options from Argentina.
