The National University of Northwestern Buenos Aires (Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires or UNNOBA hereafter) is a national university with head office and campus in Junín, Argentina, which hosts around 60% of students . It also has a campus in Pergamino city, which hosts around 40% of students. The UNNOBA was created on December 16, 2002, as the composition between the Junín Regional University Center (CURJ), started in 1990, and the Pergamino Regional University Center (CRUP), established in 1991. The University may establish more branches in other locations of the influence area which covers the northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, southern Santa Fe and Córdoba and northeast of La Pampa. The university and the municipality of Junín, are the mainstays of the Buenos Aires Northwestern Technological Center (Polo Tecnológico del Noroeste Bonaerense) and the Regional Research Laboratory in Biofuels, both projects located in Junin. In the other hand, the Pergamino Biotechnology Center the the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Sciences (ECANA in spanish) are being developed in Pergamino.