The file contains correspondence, the agenda, minutes and working documents, including financial reports.

Topics discussed: review of the ESF’s main activities, the ESF Framework Plan, international co-ordination of research initiatives, the Bonn Round-Table, ESF's publication policy, relations with the Council of Europe, mobility of researchers in Europe, change of membership status of Irish member organisations, co-operation with the French Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, ESF Scientific Networks, crystallography, neurobiology, mental illness research, toxicology, environmental toxicology, ecology, the Standing Committee for the Humanities, origins of the modern state, medieval historiography, Huguenots, linguistic typology, onomastic dictionaries, archaeology, lexicography, history of European expansion, ethnic minorities, Byzantine studies, Chinese studies, the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, unemployment in Europe, comparative law, migration studies, second language acquisition, studies on centre and periphery, the Standing Committee on Space Sciences, the European Space Agency, space science in the USA, space science in the USSR and the Hubble space telescope.

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