The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) was set up in Kyiv in November 1919. According to current legislation the NASU is a higher self-governing research organization of the country, based on state ownership.
The Academy brings together full members, corresponding members and foreign members, as well as all researchers of its institutions.
It organizes and carries out fundamental and applied research on the most important issues of natural, technical, social and humanity sciences.