The file contains: the draft minutes (also handwritten) of the meeting (Chairman Helga Nowotny), list of participants, brief for the Chairman, draft of the agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: CV, a proposal for action of the European Science Foundation Standing Committee for Social Sciences; interim reports of the additional activity’s Steering Committees (comparative law, language); reports on workshops, proposals of activities and workshops, "A proposal for a cross national comparison based on a network strategy" by Peter Nijkamp, paper "Research items in Transport and mobility planning: some recommendations and suggestions for future work" by Ian Masser; programme and background briefs for workshops; Minutes of meeting of the Standin Committee for Humanities (10-11/12/1984); report from the ESF and the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Scientific networks in Europe; proposal for a European Fund for Promoting Co-operation of Young Researchers in the Social Sciences; notes, correspondence.

Topics discussed include: new members of the Committee and disciplinary background of the members; the programme of the Committee; transportation Research; health and ageing; centre/periphery; welfare State; additional activities (second language acquisition by adult immigrants, migration, comparative law); Swedish social science research; preparation of the Summer school in linguistics (poster attached); SCH; ESF involvement in scientific networks in Europe; the programme of the Committee with possible research themes and procedures; proposal for a European fund for promoting co-operation among young researchers in the social science; proposal for a series of interdisciplinary workshops; proposal of a European network for collaboration with Brazil in social sciences.

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