As the UK national academy of science founded in 1660, the Royal Society champions top quality science and technology.
It does this by:
- funding professorial and postdoctoral science researchers
- stimulating international interaction through the provision of grants to support visits and joint projects
- producing a series of statements and reports on key issues in science and technology
- publishing scientific journals and maintaining a richly resourced history of science library and archive
- devising a science communications programme comprising meetings, lectures, exhibitions aimed at specialists and non-specialists
- promoting science education and awareness