Activity of Ciech within innovation and development is supported by the most talented Polish scientists who have been appointed to the Council of Experts assisting the President of Ciech. The Chairman of the Council of Experts is Professor Henryk Górecki at the Wrocław University of Technology who is also a Vice-Chairman of the Council for Science with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. His Deputy is Professor Jarosław Mizera at the Warsaw University of Technology, and members of the Council of Experts are Professor Juliusz Pernak at the Poznań University of Technology, Professor Stefan Pruszyński at the Institute of Plant Protection and Professor Mieczysław Trypuć at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
The Council of Experts is a counselling and opinion-forming body assisting the President of the Management Board of Ciech with their expertise within the fields of:
- innovation and development policies of the Ciech Chemical Group resulting from the strategy approved for implementation,
- innovation projects within the domain of new/improved products and processes planned for implementation by the Ciech Chemical Group companies and divisions,
- innovation and development projects for the existing systems as far as their modernization and technological and power optimisation is concerned, including the requirements of the best available techniques (BAT), policies for implementation of the REACH system and the Environmental Protection Rights,
- organization of partnership between companies and divisions of the Ciech Chemical Group, and science and research institutions (Higher Education Departments, Research and Development Units, Institutions of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
The first inaugural meeting of the Council of Experts was held on November 23rd, 2007 on which numerous eminent figures in the world of science were present. Among the participants were presidents of schools, deans of departments, directors of specialized research institutes. The Council of Experts vigorously set about to work over organization of a ground for partnership between the research and development units and schools, and the Ciech Group. Its initiatives resulted in selecting 17 development projects standing a chance of obtaining the refunding within programs carried out by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.