President approves large-scale reforms at National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
On October 19, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 367 “On the Activities of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”.
On October 19, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 367 “On the activities of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports with reference to the press service of the Head of State.
The document is aimed at improving the scientific sphere, organizational structure and activities of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as subordinate organizations, strengthening their scientific and production potentials, increasing the practical orientation and efficiency of research.
Thus, the decree liquidates, reorganizes and transforms a number of state scientific institutions and scientific and practical centers of the NAS. Such optimization will eliminate duplicate functions and concentrate the potential of scientific institutions on solving priority for the state applied problems in the field of technology and technology, further increasing the efficiency of scientific research.
The document approved the NAS Charter in a new edition. In addition, the status of a civil servant is given to the Chairman of the Presidium of the NAS, his deputies and chief scientific secretary. This is done to strengthen the management vertical and strengthen the personal responsibility of the management staff of the Academy of Sciences for the results of its scientific and economic activities.
At the same time, the Chairman of the Presidium is empowered to make personnel decisions regarding the appointment and dismissal of heads, deputy heads, scientific secretaries of subordinate organizations.
In addition, the powers of the Presidium and its bureau were expanded by delegating certain functions of the General Meeting in order to make operational decisions related to the activities of the Academy of Sciences.
Taking into account the ongoing optimization, the maximum staffing of the NAS apparatus is fixed.
The decree also improves the procedure for the election of full members (academics) and corresponding members of the NAS, introduces additional criteria for assessing their scientific achievements.
The age limit at the time of nomination is set (for academicians - 70 years, for corresponding members - 60 years), requirements for the availability of the academic degree of Doctor of Science and the academic title of professor, management of scientific, scientific, technical and industry programs, as well as a great contribution to the development of science, scientific and practical works in the announced specialty.
The President of Belarus has the right to assign academic titles to persons who have made a significant contribution to the development of the national economy, domestic and world science.
