The file contains the minutes of the General Assembly of 1991, preparatory correspondence, lists of observers and participants, agenda and working documents.

The working documents distributed at the meeting are: the annual reports of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the Standing Committee for the European Medical Research Councils and the Standing Committee for the European Science Research Councils, a progress report and a evaluation on ESF Scientific Network, a review of the work of the European Geotraverse, a paper "ESF Forward Look", the budget and financial reports, application papers by the Finnish Academy of Science and Arts, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research, a report on nominations by the Electoral Commission, the annual report of the Executive Council, a progress report on ESF Scientific Programmes and a report on the European Research Conferences.

Topics discussed are: individual development, communications and transport networks, polar science, history of European expansion, crystallography, volcanology, science of learning, financial markets, demographic research, sociology, linguistics, developmental biology, neuroscience, economic history, insectology, population ecology, genetics, quaternary mammals, Hebrew studies, biomembranes, literacy, the classics in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, biosciences, environmental research, radio astronomy, nuclear physics, space science, marine science, forest ecosystem research, chemistry, physics, polymer science, brain and behaviour research, paleoclimatology, history of the modern state, political science, spatial planning research, sociology of science, mathematics, mental illness, Europrobe, material sciences, biochemistry, geographic information systems, disease research, epidemiology, toxicology.

English, French

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The text of the speech "The Internationalisation of the Scientific Enterprise" by Frederick Bernthal of the US National Science Foundation is missing.