The Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional, Argentina (CIN) – the National Interuniversity Council of Argentina
The CIN acts as an umbrella organisation of all Argentinian national universities as well as recognised provincial universities and university-level institutes. It coordinates policies among the country’s universities in order to promote the development of higher education, ensuring access, quality and equity across the public university system. It has
a particular mandate to facilitate and coordinate international partnerships, academic exchanges and joint research initiatives between Argentina’s public universities and foreign institutions. EHRI has been in contact with CIN representatives since an EHRI organized internationalization workshop in Washington DC in February 2025 that aimed at strengthening cooperation between EHRI and relevant institutions across the Americas. To strengthen cooperative ties with Argentinian partners is a particular priority, as the country hosts the largest Jewish community in Latin America, and it acted as an important destination country for both Holocaust survivors and perpetrators after World War II. It also holds very significant (but underexplored) archival collections, and possesses a sizeable research community. Following the Washington workshop, there has been regular contact between EHRI and CIN representatives, which has resulted in a long-term cooperation agreement. The first major activity spawning from this will be
a comprehensive survey of Holocaust-relevant archival sources, institutions and individuals across Argentina. CIN undertakes this mapping exercise with EHRI providing methodological support. EHRI and CIN will further cooperate on dissemination and communication concerning relevant news.
These activities will be a first step to substantially and sustainably strengthen exchange and cooperation between Latin America and Europe in the field of Holocaust research. This will also lead to increased coverage of Argentinian archival sources in the EHRI Portal, thereby improving access to these vital but hitherto underused holding among the European research communities.
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