The file contains: the draft minutes of the meeting (Chairman Guido Martinotti), the list of participants, the agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: progress report, CV; 1993 Committee membership list; article "Education and Research in the Czech Republic: Burden of the Past and Hope for the Future" by Jiří Musil; letter from Guido Martinotti as provisional views of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences and suggestions for the social sciences in the Fourth Framework Programme Report of the NOS-S (Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Science Research Councils) Task Force on European Cooperation; proposals for the new scientific programmes; Workshop report on "Making Data European : Integrating the Social Science Data Base"; reports and minutes as the minutes of the meeting Standing Committee for Humanities (10-11/12/1992); press cuttings; leaflet of the European Science Foundation programme for 1993.

Topics discussed include: Committee membership, report on visits to the Central European University and Czech Academy of Sciences, to United States funding agencies and to Interdisciplinary Research on Health; reappraisal of the strategic role of the ESF; task force on European cooperation ; social science and the European community; new Core Group; proposal for a new scientific programme on learning in humans and machines; current exploratory activities; current Scientific programmes (beliefs in government, regional and urban restructuring in Europe, environment, science and society); SCH.

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