Today
the Uzbek society faces an imperative challenge to raise a new posterity with
innovative thinking. A generation who closely link their prospective with this
country’s future as well as science. Uzbekistan’s Academy of Sciences, in
particular, is reported to have been addressing this mission in a systemic and
regular mode.
The Academy of Sciences has recently hosted a meeting
of its newly created Young Scientists Council that is designed to promote young
scholars within the Academy, combine their endeavors to address critical
challenges in science. It is also projected to shore up innovation activity among
young researchers.
Participants
discussed and approved a charter and a work plan of the Council of Young
Scientists covering organizational and managerial issues as well as those
concerning the development of cooperation in academic and industrial spheres,
relations with foreign partners and mass media.
Chairman of the
Council of Young Scientists was elected a 33-year-old doctor of law, Professor
S. Gulamov. Despite his age, he has already managed to bring up 11 candidates
(PhD) of sciences, published 4 monographs, guidebooks and 50 academic articles.
President of the
Academy of Sciences, Sh. Salikhov, let the attendees know that the Council is
to obtain substantial support funds and academic scholarships.