| Acronym | Sense | Language | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNIC | Centre de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cognitives (www.cnic.u-bordeaux1.fr) | In French | → Neurology |
| CNIC | Computational Neurobiology and Imaging Center | In English | → Neurology → Diagnostics |
| CNRI | Centre National des Risques Industriels | In French | → Industry, industrial policy → Accidents, risks, safety |
| CNRL | Communications and Navigation Research Laboratory | In English | → Telecommunications |
| CNRT | Centre National de Recherche Technologique | In French | → Research policy |
| CNS | Computation and Neural Systems (www.cns.caltech.edu) | In English | → Artificial intelligence |
| CNTS | Centrum voor Nederlandse Taal en Spraak | In Dutch | → Language, linguistics, literature |
| CNTS | Centre National des Techniques Spatiales | In French | → Astronautics |
| COLA | Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies | In English | → Marine research, oceanography → Meteorology, climatology |
| CPAS | Center for Pacific Asia Studies | In English | → Area studies |
| CPC | Climate Prediction Center (www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov) | In English | → Meteorology, climatology |
| CRA | Centro Ricerche Astronomiche di Lecce (www.cralecce.net) | In Italian | → Astronomy |
| CRAHM | Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et Historiques Médiévales (www.unicaen.fr/crahm/) | In French | → Archeology → History |
| CRAPE | Centre de Recherche sur l'Action Politique en Europe | In French | → Sociology → Politics |
| CRBA | Centre de Ressources de Botanique Appliquée | In French | → Botany |
| CRC | China Research Centre | In English | → Research policy → China |
| CRC | Cytology Research Centre | In English | → Cytology |
| CRCIL | Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire INSERM-Lariboisière | In French | → Blood and circulatory system → Cardiology |
| CRDGS | Centre de Recherche et de Développement Groupe Saidal | In French | → Pharmacology, toxicology → Algeria |
| CREA | Center for Research & Education on Aging | In English | → Gerontology |
| CREATE | Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events | In English | → Polemology → Economics |
| CREATIS | Centre de Recherche et d'Applications en Traitement de l'Image et du Signal (www.creatis.univ-lyon1.fr) | In French | → Image processing → Telecommunications → France |
| CREDES | Centre de Recherche, d'Étude et de Documentation en Économie de la Santé | In French | → Documentation → Economics → Pharmacology, toxicology |
| CREDILIF | Centre de Recherche sur la Diversité Linguistique de la Francophonie | In French | → Linguistics → France |
| CREECA | Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (www.wisc.edu/creeca/) | In English | → Area studies |
| CREIS | Centre de Coordination pour la Recherche et l'Enseignement en Informatique et Société (www.creis.sgdg.org) | In French | → Computer science |
| CREM | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management | In French | → Economics → Management |
| CREM | Centre de Recherches sur les Médiations | In French | |
| CREP | Centre de Recherche Économique sur l'Épargne | In French | → Finance |
| CRES | Center for Renewable Energy Sources = KAΠE | Κέντρο Ανανεώσιμων Πηγών Ενέργειας | In Greek |
In English | → Energy economics |
| CRESE | Center for Research and Education in Special Environments | In English | → Education |
| CREST | Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (www.crestuk.org) | In English | → Energy economics |
| CREST | Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (www.crest.fr) | In French | → Statistics → Economics → France |
| CRIEPI | Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry | In English | → Energy economics → Electrical engineering |
| CRIM | Centre de Recherche en Ingénierie Multilingue (www.crim.fr) | In French | → Language, linguistics, literature → France |
| CRIN | Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy | In French | → Computer science |
| CRISTAL | Centre de Recherche en Réseaux, Systèmes et Image Multimédia | In French | → Networks, communication → Computer-based techniques |
| CRIVE | Centre de Référence pour les Infections Virales Émergentes | In French | → Virology → Infectious diseases |
| CRL | Communication Research Laboratory | In English | → Telecommunications |
| CRL | Communications Research Laboratory | In English | → Telecommunications |
| CRPCC | Centre de Recherches en Psychologie, Cognition et Communication | In French | → Psychology → Sociology |
| CRPL | Cosmic Ray Physics Laboratory | In English | → Astronomy → Physics |
| CRREL | Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory | In English | |
| CRRM | Centre de Recherche Rétrospective de Marseille | In French | |
| CRTT | Centre de Recherche en Terminologie et Traduction | In French | → 8023 |
| CSC | Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Soudage et Contrôle | In French | → Mechanical engineering |
| CSCI | Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam | In English | → Islam |
| CSCS | Centre for the Study of Culture & Society | In English | → Civilization, culture, progress → Social sciences |
| CSDL | Charles Stark Draper Laboratory | In English | |
| CSEM | Centre Sismologique Européen-Méditerranéen (www.emsc-csem.org) | In French | → Seismology, earthquakes |
| CSPRP | Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques | In French | → Sociology → Politics |
| CST | Center for Sprogteknologi (http://cst.ku.dk) | In Danish | → Computer-based techniques → Linguistics → Denmark |
| CSTAL | Combat Surveillance and Target Acquisition Laboratory | In English | → Military engineering |
| CSTB | Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment | In French | → Construction → France |
| CSTP | Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (www.cstb.fr) | In French | → Construction |
| CTC | Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento de Carnes | In Portuguese | → Fishing, hunting → Food technology |
| CTG | Centrum voor Technische Geowetenschappen (www.ctg.tudelft.nl) = CTG | Centre for Technical Geoscience | In Dutch |
In Dutch | → Earth sciences → Netherlands |
| CTG | Centre for Technical Geoscience (www.ctg.tudelft.nl) = (look above) |
In Dutch | → Earth sciences → Netherlands |
| CTI | Connecticut Transportation Institute (www.cti.uconn.edu) | In English | → Transport and postal services |
| CTIF | Centre Technique des Industries de la Fonderie | In French | → Metallurgy |
| CTIT | Centrum voor Telematica en Informatietechnologie | In Dutch | → Telecommunications → Computer science |
| CTIVV | Centre Technique Interprofessionnel de la Vigne et du Vin | In French | → Agricultural sciences → Beverage industry |
| CTL | Canoga Test Laboratory | In English | |
| CTL | Component Test Laboratory | In English | |
| CTNERHI | Centre Technique National d'Études et de Recherches sur les Handicaps et les Inadaptations | In French | → Medicine |
| CTP | Centre Technique du Papier (www.webctp.com) | In French | → Paper and board industry |
| CTTL | Centrum Taaldidactiek en Toegepaste Linguïstiek | In Dutch | → Linguistics |
| CUBS | Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors | In English | → Biotechnology → Electronics |
| CUGI | Clemson University Genomics Institute (www.genome.clemson.edu) | In English | → Genetics → Biotechnology |
| CVC | Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie | In Dutch | → Telecommunications → Language, linguistics, literature |
| DCTB | Dansk Center for Translationel Brystkræftforskning | In Danish | → Oncology → Denmark |
| DECL | Direct Energy Conversion Laboratory | In English | → Energy economics |
| DFKI | Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (www.dfki.de) | In German | → Artificial intelligence → Germany |
| DFL | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luftfahrt | In German | → Aerodynamics → Aeronautics, aircraft → Germany |
| DFRC | Dryden Flight Research Center | In English | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics → United States |
| DFVLR | Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt | In German | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics → Germany |
| DISC | Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (www.disc.tudelft.nl) | In English | → Electrical engineering → Electronics → Netherlands |
| DIW | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (www.diw.de) | In German | → Economics → Germany |
| DKFZ | Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (www.dkfz.de) | In German | → Oncology → Germany |
| DLR | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (www.dlr.de) | In German | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics → Germany |
| DLR | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (www.dlr.de) | In German | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics → Germany |
| DPRI | Disaster Prevention Research Institute (www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp) | In English | → Natural disasters → Japan |
| DPZ | Deutsches Primatenzentrum Göttingen (www.dpz.gwdg.de) | In German | → Primates → Germany |
| DRL | Double-Rack Laboratory | In English | |
| DTSL | Data Transfer Systems Laboratory | In English | → Data → Telecommunications |
| DVI | Deutsches Verpackungsinstitut (www.verpackung.org) | In German | → Applied sciences, technology |
| DVL | Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt | In German | → Aerodynamics → Aeronautics, aircraft → Germany |
| DZA | Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (www.dza.de) | In German | → Gerontology → Germany |
| EAL | European Accreditation of Laboratories | In English | → Quality management |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (www.ecmwf.int) | In English | → Meteorology, climatology |
| ECRC | Early Childhood Research Center | In English | → Pediatry → Child psychology |
| EDL | Engineering Development Laboratory | In English | → Engineering, technology |
| EERI | Estonian Energy Research Institute | In English | → Energy economics |
| EFEO | École Française d'Extrême-Orient (www.efeo.fr) | In English | → Language, linguistics, literature → Geography, biography, history → France |
| EGS | Eijkman Graduate School for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (www.eijkmanschool.org) | In English | → Higher education, universities → Immunology and allergy → Infectious diseases |
| EIDMA | Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (www.win.tue.nl/math/eidma/) | In English | → Mathematics |
| EIfER | European Institute for Energy Research (www.eifer.uni-karlsruhe.de) | In English | → Energy economics → Electrical engineering |
| EL | Equipment Laboratory | In English | |
| EMBL | European Molecular Biology Laboratory (www.embl.org) | In English | → Biochemistry, biophysics → Europe |
| EMGO | (Instituut voor) Extramuraal Geneeskundig Onderzoek (www.emgo.nl) | In Dutch | → Medicine → Netherlands |
| EMI | Équipe mixte INSERM | In French | → Research policy → Medicine |
| EORC | Earth Observation Research Center (www.eorc.jaxa.jp) | In English | → Earth sciences → Astronautics → Japan |
| EOST | École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (http://eost.u-strasbg.fr) | In French | → Specialized or polytechnical colleges → Earth sciences → France |
| EPOS | Experimenteel Psychologische Onderzoekschool (http://epos.fmg.uva.nl) | In Dutch | → Higher education, universities → Psychology → Netherlands |
| EPP | Onderzoekschool Experimentele Psychopathologie (www.dmkep.unimaas.nl/epp/) | In Dutch | → Higher education, universities → Psychology |
| EPRI | Electric Power Research Institute (www.epri.com) | In English | → Electrical engineering |
| ERCOMER | European Research Center on Migrations and Ethnic Relations | In English | → Migrations → Sociology → Ethnology → Europe |
| ERIM | Environmental Research Institute of Michigan | In English | → Threats to the environment |
| ERIM | Erasmus Research Institute of Management | In English | → Management |
| ERINA | Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia | In English | → Economics |
| ERRI | European Railway Research Institute | In English | → Rail transport engineering → Transport and postal services |
| ESI | Erich-Schmid-Institut für Materialwissenschaft (www.oeaw.ac.at/esi/) | In German | → Materials science |
| ESI | European Software Institute (www.esi.es) | In English | → Computer science → Europe |
| ESI | Environmental Society Institute | In English | → Environmental science |
| ESRIN | European Space Research Institute | In English | → Astronomy → Earth sciences → Astronautics |
| ESTL | Electronic Systems Test Laboratory | In English | → Electronics |
| ETL | Environmental Test Laboratory | In English | |
| ETRI | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | In English | → Electronics → Telecommunications |
| EURO-JERC | Europe-Japan Economic Research Center | In English | → Economics |
| EVAL | Earth-Viewing Applications Laboratory | In English | → Earth sciences |
| FANTOM | (International Research School for) Fundamental and Applied Nuclear and aTOMic physics | In English | → Higher education, universities → Nuclear, atomic, and molecular physics → Mechanical engineering |
| FAZD | (National Center for) Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense | In English | → Zoology → Agricultural sciences |
| FCHL | Flight Control Hydraulics Laboratory | In English | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics |
| FDLI | Food & Drug Law Institute (www.fdli.org) | In English | → Law, jurisprudence → Pharmacology, toxicology → Food technology |
| FERSI | Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes | In English | → Organizations and associations → Transport and postal services |
| FFRDC | Federally Funded Research and Development Center | In English | → Research policy |
| FhG | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (www.fraunhofer.de) | In German | → Organizations and associations → Research policy → Germany |
| FIRILITE | Federation of International Research Institutes on Law and Information Technology in Europe | In English | → Organizations and associations → Law, jurisprudence → Computer science |
| FIRM | Forschungsinstitut Rechenintensive Methoden (www.wu-wien.ac.at/firm) | In German | → Computer-based techniques → Mathematics |
| FORC | Fiber Optics Research Center (www.fibopt.ru) | In English | → Russia |
| FRA | Fisheries Research Agency (www.fra.affrc.go.jp) | In English | → Fishing, hunting → Japan |
| FRCGC | Frontier Research Center for Global Change | In English | → Meteorology, climatology |
| FSL | Flight Simulation Laboratory | In English | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics |
| FSL | Flight Systems Laboratories | In English | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics |
| FTPH | Forschungsinstitut für technische Physik | In German | → Engineering, technology |
| FTW | Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (www.ftw.at) | In German | → Telecommunications → Austria |
| FZR | Forchungszentrum Rossendorf | In German | |
| FZÚ | Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd České republiky (https://www.fzu.cz/) | In Czech | → Physics → Academies → Czech Republic |
| GEMPPM | Groupe d'Études de Métallurgie Physique et de Physique des Matériaux | In French | → Physics → Metallurgy |
| GETALP | Groupe d'Étude pour la Traduction/le Traitement Automatique des Langues et de la Parole | In French | → Computer-based techniques → Linguistics |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (www.gfdl.gov) | In English | → Geophysics |
| GFZ | Geoforschungszentrum (www.gfz-potsdam.de) | In German | → Earth sciences → Germany |
| GGC | Groupe Génétique et Cancer | In French | → Genetics → Oncology |
| GHIA | Grupo de Herramientas Interactivas Avanzadas | In Spanish | → Software → Computer-based techniques |
| GI | Geophysical Institute | In English | → Geophysics |
| GIPSA | Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique | In French | → Computer-based techniques |
| GIS | Genome Institute of Singapore | In English | → Biotechnology |
| GMI | Gregor Mendel-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenbiologie (www.gmi.oeaw.ac.at) | In German | → Biological sciences → Botany → Austria |
| GML | Government Metallurgical Laboratory | In English | → Metallurgy |
| GNV | Gruppo Nazionale per la Vulcanologia (http://gnv.ingv.it) | In Italian | → 55121 → Italia |
| GODAC | Global Oceanographic Data Center | In English | → Data → Marine research, oceanography |
| GPL | General-Purpose Laboratory | In English | |
| GRASS | Groupe d'Analyse du Social et de la Sociabilité | In French | → Sociology |
| GRC | Glenn Research Center (www.grc.nasa.gov) | In English | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics → United States |
| GRCE | Groupe de Recherche en Communication Écrite | In French | |
| GREAH | Groupe de Recherche en Électrotechnique et Automatique du Havre | In French | → Electrical engineering |
| GRETSI | Groupement de Recherche en Traitement du Signal et de l'Image | In French | → Computer-based techniques |
| GSDL | Ground Software Development Laboratory | In English | → Software |
| GTRI | Georgia Tech Research Institute (www.gtri.gatech.edu) | In English | → Applied sciences, technology → United States |
| GUIDE | Groningen University Institute for Drug Exploration | In English | → Pharmacology, toxicology |
| GVL | Ground Vibrations Laboratory | In English | → Acoustics |
| HARC | Houston Advanced Research Center (www.harc.edu) | In English | → United States |
| HCSL | Hybrid Computation and Simulation Laboratory | In English | → Computer simulation |
| HERI | Higher Education Research Institute (www.heri.ucla.edu) | In English | → Higher education, universities → United States |
| HFA | Holzforschung Austria (www.holzforschung.at) | In German | → Forestry → Austria |
| HFCL | Hydraulic Flight Control Laboratory | In English | → Aeronautics, aircraft → Astronautics |
| HGF | Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Forschungszentren (https://www.helmholtz.de/) | In German | → Research policy → Germany |
| HHI | Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (www.hhi.fraunhofer.de) | In German | → Telecommunications → Germany |
| HIPRC | Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/) | In English | → Law, jurisprudence |
| HIRIJW | Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women | In English | → Judaism → Social sciences |
| HIVA | Hoger Instituut Van de Arbeid (www.hiva.be) | In Dutch | → Labour, labour economics → Politics → Belgium |
| HKI | Hans Knöll Institut (www.hki-jena.de) | In German | → Pathology → Pharmacology, toxicology → Infectious diseases → Germany |
| HPOL | High-Power Optics Laboratory | In English | → Optics |
| HRI | Honda Research Institute | In English | → Vehicle engineering |
| HRSMC | Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (www.hrsmc.nl) | In Dutch | → Biochemistry, biophysics → Netherlands |
| HSL | Hardware Simulation Laboratory | In English | → Computer hardware → Computer simulation |
| HyARC | Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center | In English | → Marine research, oceanography → Hydrology → Earth sciences |
| I3S | (Laboratoire d')Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis | In French | → Computer science → Telecommunications |
| IACD | Institute of Asian Culture and Development | In English | → Civilization, culture, progress → Area studies |
| IAF | Institut für Axiologische Forschungen | In German | |
| IAF | Institut für angewandte Forschung | In German | → Research policy |
| IAGC | Institute of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology = IAGZ | Institut für Angewandte Genetik und Zellbiologie | In German |
In English | → Genetics → Cytology |
| IAGZ | Institut für Angewandte Genetik und Zellbiologie = IAGC (look above) |
In German | → Genetics → Cytology |
| IAIK | Institut für Angewandte Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikationstechnologie (www.iaik.tugraz.at) | In German | → Computer science → Telecommunications → Austria |
| IAO | Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (www.iao.fraunhofer.de) | In German | → Labour, labour economics → Germany |
| IAS | Institute for Advanced Study (www.ias.edu) | In English | |
| IB | Institut für Bodenforschung (www.boku.ac.at/boden/) | In German | → Agricultural sciences |
| IBA | Institute for Biomedical Aging Research | In English | → Biological sciences → Gerontology |
| IBL | Institut de Biologie de Lille | In French | → Biological sciences → France |
| IBN | Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology | In English | → Biotechnology |
| IBRI | Icelandic Building Research Institute | In English | → Construction |
| ICAITI | Instituto Centroamericano de Investigación y Tecnología | In Spanish | → Research policy → Engineering, technology |
| ICARDA | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas | In English | → Agricultural sciences |
| ICARE | Installation Confinée d'Analyses et de Recherches Environnementales | In French | → Microbiology |
| ICB | International Centre of Biocybernetics | In English | → Computer science → Electronics |
| ICF | Institutul de Chimie Fizică (www.icf.ro) | In Romanian | → Chemistry |
| ICG | Inter-universitair Centrum voor Geo-ecologisch Onderzoek (www.science.uva.nl/ibed/icg/) | In Dutch | → Higher education, universities → Ecology → Earth sciences |
| ICG | Institut Charles Gerhardt (www.icgm.fr) | In French | → Chemistry |
| ICG | Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision | In English | → Computer-based techniques |
| ICIA | Institutul de Cercetări pentru Inteligenţă Artificială (www.racai.ro) | In Romanian | → Artificial intelligence |