Drawing attention to top-priority and long-run objectives in the field of science, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov highlights the need for creating sustainable natural resource management and up-to-date processing technologies to boost the growth of the national economy and diversification of its sectors.
In order to expand research activities in this area and enhance their efficiency, the nation’s leader has identified major targets that are included in the 2021-2025 State Comprehensive Development Program for Chemical Science and Technology, approved by the Presidential Resolution on October 16, 2020.
The main aim of the Program, initiated by the head of state Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is to increase the role that science plays in the reforms ongoing in all sectors of the country’s economy, to take advantage of the potential of chemical science in the production of eco-friendly and import-substituting products, and to improve competitiveness of domestic chemical products in the global market, using innovative and digital solutions.
The document envisages specific measures intended to achieve these objectives. They are classified in 11 fields. Among them are working out of scientific methods for integrated and more efficient processing of locally-sourced mineral, hydro-mineral and hydrocarbon raw materials, as well as industrial waste disposal methods, including waste water management.
The Program recognizes the advisability of conducting international research work in these fields in collaboration with foreign research institutions, and emphasizes the importance of training professionally-qualified specialists.
One of the top-priorities of the nation’s leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s policy is assisting young people in receiving modern-day, high-quality education in full accordance with international standards, encouraging their professional development and participation in scientific and technical research.
The Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan is making systematic efforts to train young specialists.Noteworthily, young people comprise around fifty percent of staff at the Institute.
Every year, those who graduate from our country’s field-specific higher education institutions and leading universities in the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, and other countries, come to work here.
The Institute of Chemistry supports specialized departments at the International Oil and Gas University, the Oguzkhan University of Engineering Technologies, and Turkmen State Architecture and Construction Institute.
This plays a very important role in enhancing the quality of educational seminars and practical training of students and allows scientists and specialists to share their expertise with young people, who have a chance to experience the Institute’s research work first hand, and immerse themselves in a work environment.
The head of state Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov puts training of qualified professionals at the core of scientific and technological advancement.Young specialists working at different institutions are enrolled in postgraduate study, and as degree-seeking students they take part in scientific research activities at the Institute of Chemistry under the close supervision of experienced scientists.
This enables them to become highly trained specialists.
Launched earlier this year, the five-year State Comprehensive Development Program for Chemical Science and Technology envisions further efforts to foster young people’s participation in the Chemistry Institute’s research projects.
The document also includes an Action Plan for 2021-2023, designed to fulfill the stated objectives. With a total of 18 large events planned, most of them will be hosted and supported by the Institute of Chemistry.
To further promote and expand scientific research work, a new industrial chemistry laboratory has been established at the Institute of Chemistry. It will lead a great number of research projects in the country’s industrial sector.
To strengthen the role of the Academy of Sciences in the national economy, to build closer links between science, education and industry, to facilitate the full development of research institutes, the research establishments of the Academy of Science are authorized to carry out research, applying marketing principles in applied research institutions and to operate on a self-sustaining basis in accordance with the Resolution of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and by agreement with the Cabinet of Ministers.
The document provides a way for dynamic scientific development and qualitative enhancement in the field of science. It also enables research institutions, scientists and professionals to pursue research activities, to introduce their results and scientific-technical innovations into the national economy, to train highly qualified specialists and to foster international cooperation on an economically self-supporting basis.
Making the transition to a financially self-sufficient organizational scheme at the research institutes’ and spending their revenues on research activities is enormously important in the modern, fast-changing realm of science and technology.
Given this, the Institute of Chemistry partly operated in a self-sustaining way last year, but since January 1, 2021, all of its laboratories and departments have become fully self-reliant.
The head of state Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov notes that implementing far-reaching reforms and developing the socially-oriented economy strongly relies on the gradual transition to modern forms of management by adapting to market-based environments.
Undertaken by Turkmen research chemists as part of the State Program, research and analytical efforts, and research activities funded through the self-sufficient economic model have culminated in 21 limited patents granted to the Institute of Chemistry by the State Intellectual Property Service of the Ministry of Finance and Economy.
Findings from the Institute’s research projects are being actively introduced into various segments of domestic industry owing to the fact that research carried out by chemical experts is consistently linked with the tasks of stepping up the manufacturing of products and import-substituting goods from locally-available raw materials, and increasing exports.
Importantly, these tasks will be tackled in strict compliance with environmental, product quality and product safety requirements as well as with a glance to non-waste technologies and other issues.
This all makes it safe to say that the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Program for Chemical Science and Technology, designed on instructions from President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will be a big step forward on the road to our home country’s further socio-economic progress.