Our roles

Working with national and international experts GO-Science supports the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser in:

• working with departments to assess their performance in managing and using science and engineering, and to support them in introducing improvements 
• supporting the independent Council for Science and Technology to provide high level advice to the Prime Minister and Cabinet 
• Supporting the provision of independent science and engineering advice to government 
• Bringing together departmental CSAs to build capacity, share good practice and address cross-cutting issues where science and engineering can add value, for example in counter terrorism 
• Undertaking Foresight projects which bring together leading edge science and engineering with futures techniques to address cross-cutting issues such as Global Environmental Migration 
• advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet directly on issues of global impact such as pandemic flu or those which affect many or all government departments such as energy generation 

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