The file contains: the draft minutes of the meeting (Chairman Guido Martinotti), the list of participants, the agenda and schedule, as well as the 1993 Standing Committee for Social Sciences membership list.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: summary of proceedings by John Martinussen of the Conference on European Research Cooperation in the Social Sciences; decision minutes of the SCSS Core Group meeting; progress report, CV; annual report SCSS, reports and minutes including the minutes of the meeting Standing Committee for Humanities (21-22/06/1993); press cuttings; programs for workshop; responses from the members Organisations on the reappraisal of the European Science Foundation’s strategic mission, report of the meeting of the Member Organisation’s on the initiatives to stimulate Research cooperation in the social sciences between Western and Central/Eastern European countries, proposals for workshops.

Topics discussed include: Committee membership; reappraisal of the strategic role of the ESF; implications of the ESF reappraisal for the future work of the SCSS; Current exploratory activities (Research cooperation in the social sciences between Western and Central/Eastern Europe integrating the social science database, new dynamics of urban processes in Europe, interdisciplinary research on health); new proposals for exploratory activities (Workshop on "Nationalism, Ethic conflict and Conceptions of citizenship", "Religious and Moral Pluralism in Europe"); SCH: Proposed initiative on Advanced Asian Studies; SCSS strategic activities: social science frontiers report; reports on current scientific programmes (learning in humans and machines, EMOT, Gisdata, beliefs in Government, regional and urban restructuring in Europe, environment, science and society); scientific networks progress report, European research conferences.

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