The file contains the draft minutes of the General Assembly held in 1997, preparatory correspondence, lists of participants and observers, agenda, and working documents.

The working documents distributed at the meeting are: a review of the activities of the Framework Programme, the reports of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences, the Standing Committee for the European Medical Research Council, the Standing Committee for the Life and Environmental Sciences, a report and recommendation of the Electoral Commission, a position paper on ESF Strategy and Science Plan 1998-2001, review of the European Research Conferences, application papers by the Italian National Institute for Physics of the Matters, Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences and reports and reviews of ESF Scientific Networks.

Topics discussed are: administrative policy research, geographic information systems, database usage, research on learning, environmental research, brachytherapy, leukaemia research, Parkinson’s disease, environment and health, developmental biology, neuroscience, toxicology, mental illness research, polar science, bio-sensing interfaces, photosynthesis, quaternary mammals, ocean drilling, climatology, lake drilling, volcanology, Europrobe, population biology, tropical canopy research, nuclear physics, mathematics, physics, art history and fossil research.

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The budget and financial reports, the text of the address "European Science and Science Policy: The 5th Framework Programme" by Jan Borgman and the text of the panel discussion "European Science in a Global Context" are missing or incomplete.