- It is a fortunate coincidence that I am meeting with you a dozen or so hours after I spoke with the prime ministers of the Scandinavian and Baltic states, and quite surprisingly, a significant part of those conversations and meetings concerned what you deal with on a daily basis, namely science and innovation – stated Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the PRM awards ceremony for scientific activity.

- It was quite obvious to everyone that the future of our world, and also the values on which this world of ours is built, this broadly understood West in a political-civilizational sense, will depend on whether we will be able to maintain Europe, and Poland within it, in terms of creativity, innovation, science, and knowledge. And if our states and the EU as a whole do not overdo it with regulations that can stifle, or sometimes hinder scientific research, and certainly today at this crucial moment, this capacity of the state, society, scientists, and business, the ability to apply your discoveries in practical life — he continued.

- We have a very serious gap to close, when it comes to today's scientific-civilizational centers. The United States, China – he emphasized.