The Society conducts genuine project activities, among other things, in the fields of strategic consulting, scientific research, expert studies, quantitative methods, econometrics, big data, market research, decision research, scientific queries, informational studies, as well as the assessment of procedures, data, and forecasts.
The Society fosters the development of scientific reflection, the support of research, the protection of intellectual achievements, and the creation of a time-space conditions for calm and substantive exchange of thought. Some of the Society's research interests relate to the investment design, the effects of the empirical sciences connected with medicine, quantitative methods, comparative research, and the applications of research on large datasets and econometrics, as well as culture, artistic business activities, the history of law, and pro bono business activities. However, the Society is not limited to the project areas mentioned above, undertaking all business activities not requiring permits, as defined by European Union / Polish classifications of business activities, and/or engaging in fostering the creation and/or implementation of possible facilitated effects of all licensed business activities requiring permits, where the legal conditions for a licence or permit exist, or in creating facilitative formal conditions for such business activities, with promotional participation shaped by the effects of the Society.
The Society therefore fosters advisory, scientific, research, opinion-giving, accounting, commercial, intermediary, publishing, educational, artistic, craft, production, legal, para-legal, and similar business activities.
The Society currently has several preferred areas of business activities which constitute the practical centre of gravity of its current commitments and obligations, without prejudging future directions. It nevertheless remains ready to have commitments also in other areas of business activities consistent with its founding agreement.
The Society seeks to ensure that reliable knowledge is available in a transparent, comprehensible, and orderly manner. This is served by the preparation of studies, informational materials, commentaries, and texts of a scientific and specialist character.
The Society supports research initiatives, creates conditions for cooperation between communities, and promotes a culture of methodological diligence. An important place is occupied by rigorous empirical, comparative, interdisciplinary, and large-scale data-based research undertakings.
The Society recognises that knowledge may serve the common good. It therefore supports informational activities, expert studies, and positions that help to identify more clearly the surrounding phenomena that are present and absent, natural, economic, legal, cultural, and artistic.
The Society's project areas of business activities include, among other things:
— promotional and supervisory projects,
— strategic expert studies and methodological reviews,
— data-driven strategic consulting,
— strategic and research consulting,
— assessment of projects, and strategic decisions,
— documentary preparation for reliable decision-supporting presentations,
— digitisation projects,
— independent expert opinions for management boards and investors,
— detective work concerning large quantitative and qualitative datasets,
— research into internet content,
— the preparation of informational materials,
— scientific research,
— market research,
— decision research,
— assessment of statistical algebraic methods,
— validation of forecasts,
— auditing of data and indicators,
— inference from large datasets and research based on large-scale data,
— scientific expert studies and scientific queries,
— activities in the field of scientific research in medicine and health-related knowledge within the limits of proper competences and permissible forms of activities,
— the design of projects supporting artistic commitments and obligations.
The above-mentioned areas presently constitute only selected, preferred directions of the Society’s activities. The actual scope of the Society’s activities under its founding agreement is not limited to the foregoing; accordingly, the Society may undertake engagements and obligations in all areas of entrepreneurial, and associative activities, within both voluntary pro publico bono and corporate frameworks, being at once an enterprise, an association, and an organization in preparation for potential public-benefit activities. The Society is capable of temporarily assuming the functions of an enterprise’s front office, mid-office, or back office. Moreover, by operation of law, pursuant to the Society’s internal legal act (entitled the “Statute”) addressed in the Founding Agreement, the Society has established an internal Team of an associative nature under the name “Society of Friends of Science,” bearing the character of a discussion forum or of an Association in the original, historical, former constitutional sense of that term. By operation of law, any person holding personal Fellowship in this Team (the Fellowship) shall be a Fellow of the Society and may perform such functions as the Society may determine. At the same time, the Society respectfully acknowledges all entities enjoying that name, whether in full or in part, which have carried out activities in furtherance of their public mission since 1800 under that associative Name, under that designation, or under that business name, and does not stand in the way of their activities. On the contrary, it seeks, where possible, to express recognition for such associate and/or business activities whenever they make reference to the original concept of the Society’s functions. The Society stands under the historical patronage of the character of Ignacy Potocki Pilawa c.o.a. (1750-1809).
The Society engages in the production of publicly published and non-public reports, expert studies, commentaries, methodological studies, historical materials, synthetic-analytical descriptions, as well as informational documents intended for management boards, investors, and scientific communities, whether transparent or confidential in the civil-law, private, and business sense, especially where the highest degree of diligence is required in view of anonymisation or confidentiality requirements.
Within the framework of its publishing activities, it is also possible to prepare source texts, comparative compilations, working documents, expert opinions, and materials for use in research and decision-making work.
The Society remains interested in cooperation with communities, foundations, enterprises, editorial offices, archives, and legal entities interested in the reliable preparation and dissemination of knowledge.
Society of Friends of Science Pro Publico Bono C.C.A.A. Cth S.J.S.C.
The registered settlement: Łódź; while the office address is: Apartment 11, 48 Juliana Tuwima Street, 90-021 Łódź, Republic of Poland
Messages concerning cooperation, publications, events, scientific activities, research, and strategic projects may be directed to the Society's e-mail address: info@towarzystwoprzyjaciolnauk.pl. Phone no.: 00-48-42-2032212.