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

Topics discussed include: explorative visits to member organisations, physics in the less developed European countries, mobility and employment of scientists in Europe, ESF guidelines for sponsored activities, co-operation with Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils, the International Scientific Committee, co-operation with the French Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, preparations for the General Assembly 1981, the Standing Committee for the European Medical Research Councils, toxicology, human reproduction, mental illness research, biomedical research, genetic disorders, medical technology, cell biology, recombinant DNA, the Standing Committee for the Space Sciences, the European Space Agency, co-operation with American organisations in the space sciences, planetology, space physics, an international astronomical centre on the Canary Islands, the Standing Committee for the European Science Research Councils, the European Geotraverse, the European Drosophila Centre, taxonomy, energy research, forest ecosystem research, neutron research, nuclear physics, polymer sciences, paleoethnobotany, electron microscopy, the Standing Committee for the Humanities, scientific journals in the humanities, anthropology, migration studies, archaeology, dendrochronology, Byzantine studies, Chinese studies, archives, conservation sciences, linguistics and Persian studies.

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