Members of Parliament visiting SAS
11. 10. 2016 | 1757 visits
Presidency member of the SAS and SAS Assembly discussed on the current status and the problems of science and research in Slovakia with members of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science, Youth and Sports. The informal meeting took place on Monday October 10.
President of the SAS prof. Pavol Šajgalík appreciated the interest of the members of Parliamentary Committee particularly in the context of the ambitions of both sides to develop state science policy which is absenting yet. After a short presentation of the Slovak Academy of Sciences by the Vice President of the SAS RNDr. Eva Májková, DrSc., the current issues, including the ongoing accreditation of SAS by panel of independent experts from abroad were discussed. The need to secure multiple sources of research funding in context of the transformation of research organizations, including SAS was discussed in particular. Act on public research institutions, which should ensure the transformation of the Institutes of Slovak Academy of Sciences to the public research institutions, while arranging their financing, did not pass the government meeting in September.
"Prime Minister invited us to discuss more about how to treat the real estate of SAS, which we doesn´t see as a problem and with the Minister of Education we already have the proposal which we would like to present, and I believe it will unblocked the law," said Prof. Pavol Šajgalík. "Our proposal says that the shift of the property will not be approved by the founder what is SAS, but for example by the Slovakian Government."
Chairman of the National Council for Education, Science, Youth and Sports Lubomir Petrak, with other members of the Parliament were keenly interested as well in the problems of cooperation of the academy with industrial and especially the private sector, the possibility of scientific advices from the SAV experts, as well as in programs of excellent research and representation of our science in international scientific organizations. The common denominator of the current problems is, inter alia, the increase and stabilization of the funding of science in Slovakia.
President of the SAS prof. Pavol Šajgalík appreciated the interest of the members of Parliamentary Committee particularly in the context of the ambitions of both sides to develop state science policy which is absenting yet. After a short presentation of the Slovak Academy of Sciences by the Vice President of the SAS RNDr. Eva Májková, DrSc., the current issues, including the ongoing accreditation of SAS by panel of independent experts from abroad were discussed. The need to secure multiple sources of research funding in context of the transformation of research organizations, including SAS was discussed in particular. Act on public research institutions, which should ensure the transformation of the Institutes of Slovak Academy of Sciences to the public research institutions, while arranging their financing, did not pass the government meeting in September.
"Prime Minister invited us to discuss more about how to treat the real estate of SAS, which we doesn´t see as a problem and with the Minister of Education we already have the proposal which we would like to present, and I believe it will unblocked the law," said Prof. Pavol Šajgalík. "Our proposal says that the shift of the property will not be approved by the founder what is SAS, but for example by the Slovakian Government."
Chairman of the National Council for Education, Science, Youth and Sports Lubomir Petrak, with other members of the Parliament were keenly interested as well in the problems of cooperation of the academy with industrial and especially the private sector, the possibility of scientific advices from the SAV experts, as well as in programs of excellent research and representation of our science in international scientific organizations. The common denominator of the current problems is, inter alia, the increase and stabilization of the funding of science in Slovakia.