Its primary mission is to acquire new knowledge of nature, society and technology, specifically targeted at ensuring scientific basis for the advancement in Slovakia.

These institutions, which were built on the ancient Platonic traditions, became the starting point of our present day academies of sciences.

Matej Bel’s project, submitted in 1735, marked the first attempt to establish such an institution on the territory of modern Slovakia.

In 1792, upon a proposal issued by a group of patriotic philologists, Slovenske ucene tovarisstvo (The Slovak Learned Society) was founded.

On 2 July 1942, the Parliament of the Slovak Republic instituted Slovenska akademia vied an umeni (Slovak Academy of Sciences and Arts), which developed into a representative and, concomitantly, working institution fostering scientific scholarly research.

Since then, far–reaching transformations enabled the Academy to become similar to counterpart organisations of science and research in advanced countries abroad.

Nowadays, the Slovak Academy of Sciences successfully presents itself nationally and worldwide through the results in basic and applied research.