YEREVAN, JANUARY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. 3 packages of proposals concerning reforms of the sphere of science were dicsussed at the January 27 conference organized at the RA National Academy of Science (NAS) on the initiative of the Scientists' Public Council of Armenia (SPCA). They were presented by the UNDP Armenian representation, the NAS chairmanship and the SPCA. The reformation program worked out by the NAS which was given to the Government, envisages to create scientific-educational centers on predominant and other long-lasting directions at academic and other scientific-research organizations, leading institutions of higher education as well as scientific-educational-productive complexes with participation of scientific, productive organizations, including private sector and institutions of higher education. The program also proposes to make structural changes of inner-department and inter-department direction at scientiic organizations, to centralize scientific centers and institutions engaged in fundamental researches in the RA NAS structure, etc. The SPCA proposes to make radical changes at the NAS structure making this a powerful, leading scientific-educational structure, a leading circle for scientific-technic development of the country. The organization proposes also to create a principally new system of scientific councils to organize, coordinate and make examination of scientific activity, to complete those councils with leading scientists of leading scientific-research intitutes by rotation principle. The SPCA considers necessary to create an all-Armenian fund of science which must be managed by rotation principle by Board of Trustees formed from representatives of scientific councils and charity organizations. The conference participants seriously criticized the package of proposals of the UNDP Armenian representations. Particularly, Bagrat Gharibjanian, the Director of RA NAS Institute of Fine Organic Chemistry, mentioned that he attentively got acquainted with that package the first 50 page of which, according to him, is about the issue why the science of Armenia appeared in the present stage. But the scientist considers refusable those proposals. Konstantin Gharagyozian, the Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology expressed more critical opinion about the program proposed by the UN representation. According to him, if those are accepted this will take to "degradation, dismantle, so called optimalization" of the Academy. It was proposed as a result of the discussions to work out by joint forces a new program satisfying the whole scietific community.

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