National Committees

The Academy has established 18 national committees in different disciplines that among others are responsible for contacts with the scientific unions within the International Council for Science (ICSU).

The national committees' other aims include:

• promote research and education within their discipline
• promote cooperation with contiguous disciplines
• promote their discipline's influence in society (education, general public and industry)
• give advice to universities and other parts of the educational system
• give advice to the Academy

Many symposia and statements of opinion are produced in cooperation with the Academy's other committees and classes. Committee members include researchers as well as representatives from industry, public administration, education and media.

Many of the symposia are available as video on demand at KVATV 

The Academy administers national committees for (association within brackets):

• Astronomy (International Astronomical Union, IAU)  
• Biology (International Union of Biological Sciences, IUBS) 
  
• Geography (International Geographical Union, IGU) 
  
• Geological Sciences (International Union of Geological Sciences, IUGS)
  
• Geophysics (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, IUGG , and Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, SCOR)
  
• Global Environmental Change (ICSU programmes for global environmental change)
  
• Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, DLMPS/IUHPS)
  
• History of Technology and Science (International Committee for Cooperation in the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, and Division of History of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, DHS/IUHPS)
  
• Mathematics (International Mathematical Union, IMU)
  
• Molecular Biosciences (International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IUBMB, and International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics, IUPAB)
  
• Nutrition and Food Sciences (International Union of Nutritional Sciences, IUNS, and International Union of Food Science and Technology, IUFoST)
  
• Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience (International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, IUPHAR, International Union of Physiological Sciences, IUPS, and International Brain Research Organization, IBRO)
  
• Psychological Sciences (International Union of Psychological Sciences, IUPsyS)
  
• Pure and Applied Chemistry (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, and International Union of Crystallography, IUCr)
  
• Pure and Applied Physics (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, IUPAP)
  
• Radiation Protection Research (not associated with ICSU)
  
• Radio Science (International Union of Radio Science, URSI) 
  
• Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IUTAM)