The Executive Order was signed in order to streamline the Council’s activities. It approves the Council Regulations, its membership and the composition of its Presidium.
The Presidential Council for Science and Education is an advisory and coordinating body established to determine the strategic goals and objectives of the development of the scientific and technical sphere and education, to set the scientific and technological priorities of the Russian Federation, as well as to make decisions on the development and implementation by the Russian Federation Government of the most important innovative projects of national standing and federal scientific and technical programmes on issues requiring a separate decision of the President of the Russian Federation.