The special position of the RAS is to consolidate the legislation, said academician Forts - Teacher's Newspaper - Teacher's Newspaper

Academic Forts knows how to negotiate with the authorities. Once he sat at the negotiating table of the leading representatives of the two warring powerful organizations: the Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education. In that period, there was FZ “On Science and State Science and Technology Policy,” committed the fundamental principles of the Russian Academy of Sciences, including the independence and self-governing.

Fortova election platform, he joked tezisno different from the competitors as well as the horse and the horse Russian French. The only question is how to implement planned.

– I believe that the Academy of Sciences of needs not only in the preservation of frames, the priority should be the sector of engineering. Over twenty years of stagnation we are left with virtually no modern equipment. I would suggest to deploy in our country manufacturing instrumentation – Today, the market is superior armaments market in two or three times and will continue to grow.

Recall Vladimir Forts worked at the Research Institute of Thermal Processes im.Keldysha, the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences, headed the Department of the Institute for High Temperatures (IVTAN) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1987, he became the youngest academician of the country. Was a member of the Russian government, headed by the State Committee for Science and Technology from 1997 to 2000. was Minister of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. That is, Vladimir Forts is well aware of the degree of responsibility “in charge of science in the country».
One of the great merits of their own believes that the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the first chairman was Vladimir Forts, working today on the world the principles of free bureaucracy.

Today in the center “of the universe” – a bureaucrat, you need to make sure that the scientist was the main person – said Vladimir fort. A time when science was a “showcase” of the state has passed, RAS can not avoid discussions with the public, it must explain and prove their necessity and usefulness, achieving leadership in the world.

According to the academician, a lot of challenges in front of Sciences: the loss of applied science, the human losses, the inability to update the database, build new facilities, mess with the property and so on. But it is not only material resources, the case – in selecting the principles for the future. The so-called transition to an innovative economy at the moment looks like a knight standing at the crossroads: go on the “thumb”, “raw” way – you will lose the future, you go on the “bumpy” path of high technology – you will receive “the kingdom.” “Without the Academy of Sciences do not, because it has retained its structure, despite the fact that we lost the applied science and industrial science” – said the presidential candidate of the RAS.

As to the internal reorganization, in the opinion of Fortova every two terms should be rotated management personnel throughout the hierarchy of the RAS and it should be written in the Charter of the Academy of Sciences. Today there should be no age limit for professionals, but one should take care to pensions scientists – following the example of Ukraine. Need to fundamentally change the information service of the Academy, drawing and personal incentive for scientific research business. And – to declare the need for changes in Russian legislation in respect of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.

– RAS is entitled to the special conditions in the legislation. The standard plans do not apply to us, otherwise we will give standard results – summed up the candidates for the top leadership position of the Academy of Sciences.

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