Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS) is a center of national academic institutions with the duty of organizing research and development at the national level. MAS aims to keep the national scientific capabilities as a key engine for the development of the country, nurture the knowledge-based society and be an advisor to the Government. MAS applies its aims to direct the activities of General assemblies and Sub-assemblies, as well as the academic activities in the research institutes.
To achieve the sustainable development in MAS activities and strengthen the organization, MAS has considered the mid-term strategic plan as one of the critical visionary plans to be developed with a concrete effort.
Based on Law on Legal Status of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Law on Science and Technology, Concept of Sustainable Development of Mongolia-2030, the National Policy on Science and Technology, the strategic plans from the research institutes and the current situation of MAS, “The Mid-term Strategic Plan of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (2018-2025)” was further developed by the MAS.
In the strategic plan, the vision of the MAS is defined as "to be a driving force for the development of the social-economy that builds on science, technology and innovation" and its mission is defined as "to become a national science and technology center with a worldwide reputation and an ability to compete at the international level".
The main directions of the MAS activities are
· To maintain the sustainable development of basic sciences and its core research divisions in Mongolia and to lead the initiative researches on technology priorities;
· To provide the scientific advises, solutions and future recommendations for the development of socio-economic and political relations in Mongolia based on MAS’s scientific analysis and evaluations on their activities;
· To strengthen the monitoring of the national science and technology sector and build a stable liaison with the government for the basis of sectoral development policies and its reforms;
· To strengthen the national scientific capacity and cultivate the intellectual environment in the society;
· To assess and review the scientific and technological programs and projects;
· To support the development of an academic degree
The mid-term strategic plan has set four goals in 2018-2025 in order to bring the academic competitiveness of the MAS and its research institutes from the national level to the international level. These include:
1. Strengthen the management skills of the MAS, develop human resources and improve labor values.
· Participate actively in every initiative to reform the legal environment of the MAS and initiate it when needs;
· Build a robust, effective and flexible management;
· Implement the qualitative assessment of the intellectual labor and the academic performances as the organizational development criteria;
· Strength the human resource development step by step, promote self-motivation and introduce the reward and incentive systems based on work quality and outcome evaluation.
2. Develop a multi-source financing system and create a favorable environment for research and development.
· Build the legal environment for the transition to multi-source financing system;
· Work actively, within the law, to increase the percent of GDP for the investments in science and technology;
· Develop and implement a unified policy to improve the laboratory facilities to meet the international standards;
· Increase the collaborative researches in all areas to strengthen the cooperative partnership between institutes and private sectors;
· Create a fund for contribution and support for Innovation with the participation from public and private sectors;
· Develop a network of infrastructure that provides the use of modern advances of information technologies in scientific researches;
· Improve and renew the research environments and laboratory equipment to meet the modern requirements using the planned budget and international projects and programs.
3. Revise the science and technology priorities, extend the foreign relations and cooperation and improve the research results and development in line with international standards.
· Renew the priorities of science, technology and innovation and emphasize greater resources on the priorities;
· Increase the collaborations between research institutes to address and solve the development challenges in a cooperative way;
· Refine the policy for the international and foreign cooperation and increase the number of international projects and funding;
· Increase the membership in international organizations in science, technology and innovation and expand the international activities;
· Create the reward and incentive system to increase the number of research articles published in internationally recognized academic journals;
· Work initiative to introduce the advanced technologies in the production of mineral resources and raw materials in Mongolia.
4. Strengthen the innovation environment and culture, introduce the research outcomes to the society and increase the impacts and effectiveness of research activities of the society and the economy.
· Create the innovative systems that apply the research outcomes into the economic circulation at the level of the MAS system;
· Develop collaboration with relevant organizations to cultivate children's and youth's scientific thinking;
· Develop and implement the “Entrepreneur scientist” program;
· Establish the active networks to sell and distribute the research and innovation outcomes to consumers;
· Create a mechanism for improving the intellectual property protection and introducing the intellectual properties into the economic circulation;
· Nurture and cultivate the scientific education and scientific views in the society.