The file contains: the minutes of the meeting (Chairman Helga Nowotny), the list of participants, the agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: CV, the list of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences members, proposal for an interdisciplinary and comparative research programme, annual reports 1990 and minutes of meetings on beliefs in Government project and on regional and urban restructuring in Europe, summary report on meeting with the United States funding agencies in the social sciences (05-08/03/1991), minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee for Humanities (10-11/12/1990), background briefs outlines, and programmes for workshop.

Topics discussed include: Committee membership, exploratory workshops for new scientific programmes (geographical information systems, new social sciences approaches to organisations, human and machine learning); reports of the scientific programmes (beliefs in Government, regional and urban restructuring in Europe, environment science and society), report on visit to US funding agencies in the social sciences, CEC (DG XIII) Contract on social sciences and the next Framework programme, Scientific networks, European Research Conferences, post-doctoral research fellowships, European Science Foundation brochure on the social sciences, SCH, history of science, information from members on important new research developments in their respective organisations.

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