As a part of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), by order of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 30, 2013 all institutes of the KazSC RAS were transferred to the FASO of Russia – the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations of Russia.
To continue the reform of RAS basing on the need to most effectively address the basic challenges facing science, the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences as one of the major regional centers of academic science with the well-known scientific schools in the field of chemistry, physics, biology and other fields of knowledge, was transformed into the Federal Research Center (FRC).
According to the administrative documents of the FASO, the institutes integrated into the FRC have to ensure breakthrough researches and practical developments in areas of strategic importance to the country (priority areas in the scientific and technical sphere). These works should both determine the formation of new sectors of post-industrial technology topical for the country and solve the tasks of consolidating the long-term global competitiveness of the basic sectors of the development of the Russian economics, scientific and technological support for the accelerated development of territories defining Russia’s global advantages, and provide the basis for the country’s long-term food independence. FRCs are the organizations that are responsible for achieving concrete results in the implementation of priority areas for the development of science and technology.
The basis of the Center should be formed by scientific academic organizations – world leaders in priority areas having scientific schools recognized by the scientific community. Taking into account that the solutions of the problems assigned to the FRC have a multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary character, the coordination of the relevant research and development projects should be carried out within the single research program of the FRC.
On June 14, 2017, the head of the FASO of Russia issued the Order No. 353 “On the Reorganization of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences”.
The process of the reorganization took exactly five months.
On November 14, 2017, the Head of the FASO signed the Order No. 906 “On approval of the new version of the Charter of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science FRC “KazSC RAS”.
On November 15, 2017, the official opening of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science FRC “Kazan Scientific Center RAS” was held at a meeting of the Council for Science and Education under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan. President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Head of FASO Mikhail Kotyukov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksandr Sergeev, Chairman of the Kazan Scientific Center RAS Oleg Sinyashin, Directors of institutes of the KazSC RAS and other officials took part in the meeting.
On November 21, 2017, the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences was renamed the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Center “Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (FRC “KazSC RAS”) in accordance with the Charter approved by the order of the FASO of Russia and on the basis of the entry sheet of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities FRC “KazSC RAS” of November 21, 2017.
The task of creating the FRC “KazSC RAS” before the end of 2017 was extremely ambitious taking into account both the tight deadlines for the project implementation and the reference of the institutes comprising FRCs to different fields of natural sciences and, accordingly, being under the scientific and methodological guidance of various Departments of RAS – Chemistry and Materials Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, etc. However, such diversity made it possible to form the Program of the Development of the FRC “KazSC RAS” not as a compilation of “mono-profile” topics of individual institutions, but in the form of interdisciplinary topics of the fundamental and applied research in priority areas.
The Federal Research Center “Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” was established on the basis of the KazSC RAS and united eight organizations subordinated to the FASO of Russia:
- Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry
- Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute
- Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Institute of Mechanics and Engineering
- Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture
- Tatar Research Institute of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science
- Institute of Power Engineering and Advanced Technologies
- Polyclinic of Kazan Scientific Center of the RAS
O.G. Sinyashin, Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is appointed the Director of the FRC “KazSC RAS”.
The Board of Trustees of the FRC “KazSC RAS” is headed by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R.N. Minnikhanov.