The file contains: the minutes of the meeting (Chairman: Hiddo Michiel Jolles), list of decisions taken by the Committee, draft agenda, brief for the Chairman, CV, some preliminary notes and correspondence.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: minutes of the Council of Europe "Standing Conference on University problems: new project on identification, selection and implementation of training modules" [DECS/ESR(78)4], notes and reports on additional activities, proposal on foreign language acquisition in social context, minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Humanities (05-06/09/1978), draft minutes of meeting of the European Science Research Councils Working Group on Selection and support of scientific conference and symposia (Bonn, 05-06/09/78), draft resolution concerning financing of the coordination of Research.

The file also includes a letter from Vitorino Magahães Godinho, member of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences about the crisis of the social sciences and humanities in Portugal.

Topics discussed include: membership of the Committee, report on proposed questionnaire on social science research councils (report included), Social sciences Data Banks, censuses, Information and documentation in the social sciences, topics for cooperation (centre/periphery problems, regional minorities, national priorities, emigration and transport policy), social sciences activities (history and sociology of science, migration, socio-economics consequences of technical and organisational innovation, foreign language acquisition in social context, socio-economic of health and health services), report on on-going activities of other European Science Foundation bodies (Assembly, Humanities Committee, European cooperation in comparative law, European Science Research Council), Information on the social science.

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