The SAS has vision as well as goals
21. 1. 2016 | 2290 visits
On 21 January, members of the SASʼs Presidium met with Juraj Draxler, the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, in the premises of the SAS in Dúbravská Road, Bratislava, as part of his day-long visit. The SASʼs visions and its research programmes were the main topics of their discussion.
At first, both sides presented, in front of the media, possible solutions as well as ambitions to strengthen the SASʼs status as an excellent national, non-university public research institution which carries out professional, first-class research and will help enhance its effective implementation into practice. Its team will create a stable base with good prospects for the economic and cultural development of the Slovak Republic in terms of the efficient integration within the European research area.
Minister of Education, Draxler, said the state wants to allocate more funds to science and research. However, it does not have financial means to distribute money across the board, so that everyone can get it. "We will strive to support specialized, first-class workplaces and encourage greater efficiency in obtaining money from the private sector. We will also try to make better use of foreign partnersʼ interest in our scientific programmes as well as results," Juraj Draxler stressed at the meeting. He also very much welcomed an SAS initiative starting this year, an international evaluation project to promote its reputation among the general public as well as among foreign competitors.
"We would like to avoid any suspicions that we are evaluating ourselves," Prof. Pavol Šajgalík, the President of the SAS, stated on the margins of the accreditation. Marja Makarow, the Vice-President of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, will be in charge of leading the evaluation committee. The SAS has decided to leave the choice of the rest of the evaluators as well as the method of making the judgement to external experts and specialists. "We hope that the new government will see this decision as a challenge for Slovakia and we will gain additional finance precisely in support of those first-class institutions which will be selected based on the opinion of the international panel of experts," Prof. Pavol Šajgalík added.
In the presence of the Minister of Education, the representatives of the SAS also presented the long-term development aims the SAS as well as the vision for the year 2020. Its aim is to form a modern, dynamic and successful academy which will receive finance from multiple sources. In addition, it aims to make a connection between its research activities and universities and other research institutions as well as industry partners and partners engaged in the public sphere. For public use the SAS offers, within the framework of the Open Academy, nine research programmes of specific utility in various areas of the life of society:
1) New materials for everyone, 2) Between the Earth and the Universe, 3) Information and communication, 4) The healthy country of the 21st century, 5) Healthy food for everyone, 6) Science to enhance the quality of life 7) Issues concerning social order: What type of society are we living in today? 8) Issues concerning humans in the 21st century: How do we think, feel and act? 9) Issues concerning cultural change: What we are like and why?
In the morning, Juraj Draxler, went to see the SAS Institute of Experimental Physics and the SAS Earth Science Institute. Later, in the afternoon, he also paid a visit to the SAS Institute of Experimental Psychology and the SAS Institute of Neuroimmunology.
At first, both sides presented, in front of the media, possible solutions as well as ambitions to strengthen the SASʼs status as an excellent national, non-university public research institution which carries out professional, first-class research and will help enhance its effective implementation into practice. Its team will create a stable base with good prospects for the economic and cultural development of the Slovak Republic in terms of the efficient integration within the European research area.
Minister of Education, Draxler, said the state wants to allocate more funds to science and research. However, it does not have financial means to distribute money across the board, so that everyone can get it. "We will strive to support specialized, first-class workplaces and encourage greater efficiency in obtaining money from the private sector. We will also try to make better use of foreign partnersʼ interest in our scientific programmes as well as results," Juraj Draxler stressed at the meeting. He also very much welcomed an SAS initiative starting this year, an international evaluation project to promote its reputation among the general public as well as among foreign competitors.
"We would like to avoid any suspicions that we are evaluating ourselves," Prof. Pavol Šajgalík, the President of the SAS, stated on the margins of the accreditation. Marja Makarow, the Vice-President of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, will be in charge of leading the evaluation committee. The SAS has decided to leave the choice of the rest of the evaluators as well as the method of making the judgement to external experts and specialists. "We hope that the new government will see this decision as a challenge for Slovakia and we will gain additional finance precisely in support of those first-class institutions which will be selected based on the opinion of the international panel of experts," Prof. Pavol Šajgalík added.
In the presence of the Minister of Education, the representatives of the SAS also presented the long-term development aims the SAS as well as the vision for the year 2020. Its aim is to form a modern, dynamic and successful academy which will receive finance from multiple sources. In addition, it aims to make a connection between its research activities and universities and other research institutions as well as industry partners and partners engaged in the public sphere. For public use the SAS offers, within the framework of the Open Academy, nine research programmes of specific utility in various areas of the life of society:
1) New materials for everyone, 2) Between the Earth and the Universe, 3) Information and communication, 4) The healthy country of the 21st century, 5) Healthy food for everyone, 6) Science to enhance the quality of life 7) Issues concerning social order: What type of society are we living in today? 8) Issues concerning humans in the 21st century: How do we think, feel and act? 9) Issues concerning cultural change: What we are like and why?
In the morning, Juraj Draxler, went to see the SAS Institute of Experimental Physics and the SAS Earth Science Institute. Later, in the afternoon, he also paid a visit to the SAS Institute of Experimental Psychology and the SAS Institute of Neuroimmunology.