The file contains: the draft minutes (also handwritten) of the meeting (Chairman Michael Vivian Posner), list of participants, brief for the Chairman, draft agenda, draft summary of decisions and ensuing actions taken at the meeting, as well as correspondence.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: memorandum from the Committee to the Executive Council concerning the financing of multinational research projects, paper "Joint and comparative research in the activities of the SCSS" by Henri Tajfel, report of the Steering Committee meeting for the additional activity in Comparative law, reports and notes on Migration studies (proposed study of second generation migrants, workshops and research projects launched), progress report on project Ecology of adult language acquisition, minutes of the workshop on centre/periphery problems (July) including the paper "Some suggestions for Centre-Periphery Analysis" by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, report on the Symposium on the Development of joint databases for regional analysis and computer cartography (17-22/03/1980), minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Humanities (12-13/06/1980), statement on the protection of privacy and the use of personal data for research.

Topics discussed include: support of joint European research, comparative law, migration, ecology of adult language acquisition, technical innovation and social change, social and economic research for European transport, Centre/Periphery, report on the activities of the Humanities Committee, European Science Foundation declaration on the protection of privacy and the use of personal data for research, collaboration with the Vienna Centre.

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