Introducing the Office of the Scientific Secretary of the Afghanistan science academy

The office of the scientific secretary of the academy of science has been active in organizational structure of the academy of sciences since 1990.

Its current formation includes six people, administrative, services, scientific personal. The first scientific secretary of the academy of sciences was dr. Abdul same Ghaffari. In addition to being the scientific secretary, HE was also the first vice chancellor of the academy of science.

In the second provision of article of the law of the academy of sciences, beside to the word scientific secretary the word scientific vice has also used.

Pursuant to the mentioned article, the vice chancellor of the academy of sciences is appointed in accordance with the relevant legislative documents on the proposal of the general director of the academy of sciences of Afghanistan and with the approval of the president.

The vice chancellor of the academy of sciences (office of the scientific secretary) performs the following duties.

1: The meetings of the Scientific Council are held twice a month and, if necessary, extraordinary meetings are held.

2: Evaluate and study the documents of scientific promotions as well as scientific-research projects of the members of the Academy of Sciences and submit them to the Scientific Council for approval.

3: Managing and supervising the entrance exam process in the scientific staff of the Academy of Sciences.

4 : Active participation in the meetings of the Scientific-Research Seminars Commission of the Academy of Sciences and other scientific and cultural institutions.

5: Collaborate with the Department of Publications on assessing the salaries of scientific members of the Academy of Sciences.

6: Supervision Office of the Commission for Evaluation of Academic Documents of Candidates for Enrollment in the Scientific Staff of the Academy of Sciences.

7: Active cooperation in arranging and preparing legislative documents of the Academy of Sciences and during its legal steps.

8: Supervising the process of defending scientific-research dissertations of scientific members of the Academy of Sciences.

9: Supervising the process of defending scientific-research dissertations of scientific members of the Academy of Sciences.

10: Supervising the process of defending scientific-research dissertations of scientific members of the Academy of Sciences.

11: Active participation in the Commission for the Evaluation of the Works of Scientists who have nominated themselves for the academic rank of Academician and Academician Candidate.

12: Supervise the implementation of legislative documents, other bills and procedures of the Academy of Sciences.

13: Supervise the implementation of legislative documents, other bills and procedures of the Academy of Sciences.

14: preparing the ground for the promotion of scientific- research field. Conducting short term courses and English language with the help of internal and external sources.

15: writing and arranging resolutions of the scientific council and other related matters.

16: collaboration in writing. Translating and editing articles in encyclopedias.

17: guide projects and provide commentaries as needed

18: participate in scientific meetings. Seminars and conferences inside and outside the academy of science.

19: if necessary. Revise the law. Regulations and bills of the academy of science.

20: supervising the process of defending scientific- research dissertations of scientific member of the academy of sciences.

21: writing and arranging decisions of the scientific council and other letters related to the office of the scientific affairs.

22: record the decisions of the scientific council in the book of protocol The meetings of the scientific council.

23: record of the decisions of the scientific council in the approval of scientific projects, registration of scientific promotions and other documents related to the secretary’s office.

24: according to the copyright law of Afghanistan it is a member of the mentioned commission in the ministry of information and culture.

25: it is a member of the legislative committee of the ministry of justice.

26: shares matters related to the legislative documents of the academy of sciences with other departments. In this case the holding of joint meetings, exchange of correspondence is supervised by the scientific vice chancellor academy of science.