Renovating the management mechanism of programs, projects, science projects and state-level branches

The achievements of scientific and technological research (Science and Technology) of the National Science and Technology projects and projects in the past year must include the positive contribution of the renovation of the management mechanism.

First of all, the system of management documents is renewed and perfected in a synchronous, clear and unified manner from the task identification to the stage of evaluating results.

New methods of defining tasks and selecting organizations and individuals who are responsible for scientific and technological tasks have been organized openly, democracy, equality, initially creating a healthy competitive environment and promoting potentials. creative ability in science and technology activities.

Most of the topics and projects are aimed at resolving clear objectives, creating specific products and expected addresses to be applied right from the beginning of the input, more closely linked to the needs of production and life. , gradually overcome the situation of multi-content mechanical grafting without association in one topic.

The quality of the explanatory notes on the projects and the participating projects was much better than before. Many qualified young scientific staff have been chaired or participated in presiding over the tasks of the National Science and Technology tasks.

Methods of organizing science and technology activities under the program have created favorable conditions in management and evaluation of scientific and technological tasks. The implementation of management of projects and projects under the contract mechanism has enhanced the responsibilities of the involved parties, requiring the managers and organizations to chair the contract to follow the schedule.

New regulations on pre-acceptance assessment require project managers and project leaders to spend a lot of time to implement on schedule and ensure the quality of the registered scientific products. The method of allocating funds directly from the Program Office to the host organization has helped users to receive funds quickly and promptly.

Investment costs for topics and projects according to the research contents have increased significantly and are granted according to the schedule and meet the demand. The permission to transfer unused funds of the previous year to use in the following year has helped the projects and projects avoid forced disbursement at the end of the year. As a result, the use of funds is more convenient, more suitable to the nature of research activities.

Noticeably, the periodical inspection of Science and Technology tasks has a coordination between the Program Management Board and the management agencies of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Finance has contributed to the promotion and supervision. the implementation of the content, schedule, products ., of the topics and projects under the contracts and explanations of the outline has been approved.

The periodical inspection helped to solve and solve problems in implementation organization; and at the same time exchange professional issues with topics and projects to improve research quality.

The program office is located at the agency of the Program Manager so the organization and program management have many advantages. The work of the program is resolved promptly.

However, in proposing the task, there is no effective screening mechanism to choose the right scientific tasks. The organization of proposing research ideas to form topics and projects in a simple way from the bottom up so that it does not help to formulate big tasks, have high scientific and technological qualifications to solve the love. demand given by practice.

This has been initially overcome through the piloting of large-scale scientific and technological tasks, serving key socio-economic projects such as hydropower equipment, cement production. , electrical transmission system .

In the selection assessment: the evaluation criteria for selection, selection, evaluation and acceptance of scientific and technological tasks, although they have been developed, are concretized into points, but still heavy in qualitative, the proportion between the criteria is not reasonable and not really appropriate to the specific characteristics of the types of research.

The evaluation quality of advisory councils is limited due to the fact that the number of experts is really good in each field, the independent assessment method has not been applied. In the coordination relationship between organizations and individuals: the relationship between the program management board and the managing ministry has not been emphasized in inspecting, urging and supervising the implementation of topics and projects; did not promote the role and position of the host organization; The legal status of the program office is weak.

The slow financial disbursement also significantly affected the quality of implementation of topics and projects, especially those in the field of agriculture - forestry, with implementation contents related to the crop. For social and human resources programs: the specification of management methods in basic research, political theory research and social science research and research is still slow, thus preventing content duplication. overlap in implementation organization as well as the reasonableness in selecting staff to assume the task of researching.

In order for the science and technology activities to grow and contribute more to socio-economic development in the coming time, according to the opinion of many experts of the Ministry of Science and Technology, it is necessary to focus on continuing to innovate the research organization. The program aims to solve the problems posed by the economy and society at the international and scientific and technological levels, in order to meet the increasing demands of international integration.

Create an effective mechanism to focus on solving large-scale scientific and technological tasks, relating key products, having advantages in international competition of the country. Encourage tasks that are oriented to finding know-how and decoding technology. There are mechanisms and policies to invest in the threshold for promising research projects, to promote the application of scientific and technological results in production and life.

The first is to innovate and well organize the assessment of input needs when determining the objectives and tasks of science and technology. Quickly organize learning and apply methods to develop science and technology plans of advanced countries so that the State-level program is really the core of scientific and technological activities of the country.

Strengthening international cooperation, focusing on training talents in strategic technology fields. Develop mechanisms to encourage inviting foreign scientists to participate in research and advice to domestic scientific groups; use foreign consultants in the construction of scientific and technological tasks as well as in evaluating the results of the implementation of scientific and technological tasks.

Building a team of professional experts, with appropriate expertise to join the Council for selection and evaluation of scientific and technological tasks. Focus on developing technology market. Develop mechanisms and policies to create links between supply and demand of scientific and technological results and encourage the transfer and application of scientific and technological results into practice.

In particular, it is necessary to encourage the material and the spirit of scientists and organizations to lead the creation of high quality products that can be transferred to production through the attachment of scientists' benefits. , managers with the results and effectiveness of programs, topics and projects.

Strengthen mid-term monitoring and evaluation work on the implementation of topics, projects and programs. There are plans to monitor and evaluate topics and projects after completion of acceptance. Attaching the next investment (after acceptance) to the quality of research results.

Create conditions for topics and projects to apply information technology in managing science and technology activities. Use the internet in management work between management agencies and implementing agencies and projects.

Attaching powers and responsibilities of the Program Management Board in selecting research tasks, implementing activities related to the process of organizing the implementation of research tasks as well as the responsibility for the results and effectiveness of program.

Reorganize the program offices into an office under the Ministry of Science and Technology. The functional departments of the Ministry of Science and Technology assist the Minister to inspect and supervise the program implementation process, not to intervene deeply in the scientific activities of the program.

Linh Nam