The file contains the following documents:

-Preparatory correspondence, list of participants and observers, agenda and draft minutes. Minutes of General Assembly meeting held in 1985. Accounting and budgetary reports.

-Working documents distributed during the meeting: lists of ESF members, accounting and budgetary reports, standing committees and study-groups, progress reports of committees (Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, European Medical Research Councils (EMRC), Standing Committee on Space Science (SSC) and Working Group on Image Coding and the Human Visual System.

-Topics discussed include: ESF network operations, network on longitudinal studies on individual development, earth science study centres, network on transport, communications and mobility (TCM), polar science, history of European expansion, gerontology, brain and behaviour research, forest ecosystem research, taxonomy, ESF consortium for ocean drilling (ECOD) (ODP), brain and behaviour research, toxicology and polymer science.

-Text of lecture "Science in a peripheral Country: A Personal View" held by Ivo Šlaus on 18/11/1986.

-Contains also:
"Scientific Networks in Europe: Progress report from the European Science Foundation to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe" (30/09/1986).
"Mobility of Researchers in Europe: Progress Report from the ESF to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe" (14/10/1986).

English, French

Textual