The file contains: the draft minutes (also handwritten) of the meeting (Chairmen Hiddo Michiel Jolles and Michael Vivian Posner), list of participants, brief for the Chairman, draft of the agenda, decisions made and action to be taken.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: reports, minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Humanities (30-31/03/1982), minutes of meeting of some working groups (comparative law, transportation, ecology of adult language acquisition), draft proposals of workshops, programme and list of participants of the first summer school in Socio-Linguistics, preliminary report of the Centre-Periphery Research, proposal on publication policy of the Committee, proposal for Research, workshops and seminars on Convergence and Divergence of European Societies, note on the Welfare State topic for European Science Foundation, correspondence, Impact index of the Social Science Journals, report on the Standing Committee for Social Sciences (04/1982). It also includes the paper "Social Sciences in Finland, The finish University System" by Pertri Kettunen.

Topics discussed include: Work of the Standing Committee for Humanities, technological change and social development, research on transportation, comparative law, second language acquisition by adult immigrants, summer school in linguistic, migration, socio-economics of health, centre/periphery, Social Science publications, proposed seminars, relations with other organisations, first European Science Foundation interdisciplinary conference, budgetary developments within the ESF.

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