Abstract

Acoustics is an inherently interdisciplinary science involved in the study and remediation of very hot social topics. For its part, the university has a crucial role in knowledge generation with social responsibility heading to an equalitarian society. Argentinean scientific policy, promotes: a) interdisciplinary and inter institutional scientific teams, b) an unified national system of science and technology and c) the linkage of this system with educational and productive sectors. At the same time, new paradigms of higher education give a central place to the student learning process of research abilities. In such complex scenario a research center has a key role in achieving these goals. Nowadays CINTRA (Centro de Investigación y Transferencia en Acústica) is involved in a collective construction pointing towards innovative dynamics encouraging the emergence of synergetic networks in which theory-practice and research-technology are naturally joined. This paper describes three CINTRA’s ongoing programs articulating four subfields: research, technological innovation, interdisciplinary researcher training and technological services.