The file contains: the draft minutes (also handwritten) of the meeting (Chairman Helga Nowotny), list of participants,correspondence, brief for the Chairman, draft of the agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: CV, report from a visit to the United States; overview of the Member Organisations’ present and future social sciences activities; reports and minutes on Committee activities (comparative law, second language, migration, health and ageing, centre/periphery, Summer school); presentation to SCSS "Economics in Europe" by Richard Portes, programme and copy of the speech "The case for Science and the Place of Social Science" by Michael Vivian Posner; information notes on the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the European University; programme and background briefs for the workshop on a network on gerontology, general progress report on Scientific networks, draft report of the first meeting of the Co-ordination Committee for the network on longitudinal studies on individual development, Standing Committee for Social Sciences report for 1985, draft minutes of the meeting of the Steering Committee in comparative law, in second language acquisition by adults immigrants.

Topics discussed include: future activities of the Committee; European Science Foundation involvement in scientific networks in Europe (gerontology, longitudinal studies in individual development, transport, second language acquisition); members of the Committee; report on the Committee activities; European Mobility Fund in the Social Sciences; Standing Committee for Humanities; SCSS report, replies at the questionnaire about social science priority areas in the Member Organisations.

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