Specific aims

• recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to science;
• encourage and support scientific research;
• guide society in matters of national interest;
• contribute to the popularization and appropriation of science as an element of culture and economic and social development;
• cooperate in improving the teaching of the exact, physical and natural sciences at the various levels of education;
• propose to the government and state bodies actions and policies for scientific and academic development;
• seek to have its members represent it in science, technology, innovation and education bodies
• respond to scientific consultations and requests made by such bodies;
• establish and maintain relationships, institutionally or through its members, duly delegated, with national and international, public and private science, technology, innovation and education entities;
• encourage communication and exchange of scholars with their peers in other national and international scientific communities and organizations;
• develop mechanisms for participation in the activities and programs of the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation;
• collaborate with public and private entities in the construction and appropriation of scientific knowledge;
• collaborate in the conservation, defense, and sustainable use of the country’s natural resources;
• enter into agreements and contracts with public and private entities;
• refrain from issuing concepts on topics that in its opinion are not strictly scientific in nature or when it considers that there are conflicts of interest.