The formation of the Chelyabinsk Scientific Center (CSC) was
begun on the strength of a number of resolutions by the administrative
organs of Chelyabinsk oblast, the Executive Board of the Urals
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS), and the
State Committee of Higher Education of the RF from 1991-1993.
In 1995, the Executive Board of the UB RAS formed and ratified
the General Assembly of the CSC UB RAS The General Assembly
is the Center's highest managing body. In the same year, the
General Assembly, in accordance with its charter, elected
the Executive Board of the Center to manage the everyday work.
In 1996, the Scientific Councils were organized under the
direction of the Executive Board. The members which compose
the Scientific Council are leading scientists in their fields
from Chelyabinsk oblast.
The Center was established for the purposes of developing
fundamental research and solving scientific and technical
problems to further the socio-economic development of Chelyabinsk
oblast and the national economy.
In order to achieve these goals, the Scientific Center is,
in accordance with its charter, implementing the following
activities:
assisting in carrying out fundamental research and the preparing
a highly-qualified scientific cadre;
coordinating the research of regional programs and those scientific
projects which are geared toward socio-economic regional and
national development;
the coordination of research and cooperation between member
scientific institutions and between member and branch scientific-research
institutions involved in solving fundamental and applied problems;
integrating science, education, and industry;
drawing up a strategy for scientific-technical progress;
organizing scientific and scientific-technical councils, commissions,
structural groups to cope with composite, regional, interuniversity,
and intergovernmental problems, and, if necessary, establishing
temporary scientific collectives to solve problems which may
arise;
the organization and conducting of expertise and consultation
in the spheres of conservation, the regional use of natural
resources, and the development of industrial strength in the
region;
providing information support to the organizations of the
Scientific Center.
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