Research Policy

The NASR’s responsibility is to provide a strategic and tactical planning, to define strategic and tactical objectives and to define, apply, monitor and assess all the necessary policies in order to reach the national objectives regarding scientific research and technological development.

NASR defines a normative-methodological, functional, operational and financial framework to apply policies; it also harmonises the national law with the EU’s one and assumes the acquis communitaire. NASR ensures communication with the other public authorities in order to realize the coherence of the Governmental policies with the society and its citizens.

NASR stimulates the development of the international partnership, regional and local development and private sector.

NASR defines, finances, applies, supervises and evaluates programmes in order to reach its goals.

The Authority has:

• A political function: to present and unify political points of view regarding research, development and innovation;
• A strategic function: to plan strategically and ensure the basis and implementation of policies in the research, development and innovation field;
• An administrative function: to foresee, plan, allocate, supervise and evaluate the use of resources for the implementation of policies in the research, development and innovation field;
• A function of policy monitoring, evaluation and control in the research, development and innovation field.

The Authority has also functions of elaborating normative-methodological, functional, operational and financial framework for policies to be realized in the related field.

NASR represents the public authority that supervises and controls the settlements in its activity field to be applied correctly. Also, the Authority’s role is to periodically ground, elaborate and update policies and strategies in the research, development and innovation field.