J. Pótó, M. Tolnai, P. Zilahy (eds.): Understanding the Hungarian Academy of Sciences : a guide

Ferenc Glatz: Introduction

FERENC GLATZ: INTRODUCTION ministry, giving its expertise in the preparation of decisions of executive power. Every two years the Academy reports to Parliament on the situation of scholarship, the results of scientific research, and the state of research. This necessitates continuous monitoring. According to our plans, this is the Academy's job, which also means that it performs science policy functions. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as a public body of scientists, works out long-term science policy concepts. In 1996, the government assigned the Academy with the task of preparing a long-term survey of the state of Hungarian science at the turn oi the millennium. The treatise on Hungarian science policy, written as a part of this work, was discussed by ten study groups (e.g. the state of research, the question of financing, the relationship between universities and research institutes, the relationship between science and society, the international system of relations of science regionalism in science policy, etc.). The organisation of the Academy must be made suitable for performing the above threefold task. This necessitates the thematic and infrastructural modernisation of scientific workshops as well as the establishment of the necessary units for management and for the organisation of science. Ferenc Glatz President 9