The file contains: the draft minutes of the meeting (Chairman Guido Martinotti), list of participants, agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: CV; reports, list of applications submitted, proposals, notes from Peter Golding on the paper "Mass Media and the European Dimension" by Gerard Darmon and Ib Bondejerg and research programme; report from the Centre for Economic Policy Research to the European Science Foundation on the Network in Financial Markets 1988-94; minutes of the meeting Standing Committee for Humanities (01/03/1996) and of the ESF Asia Committee, newsletters on transition in youth and on gender inequality and the European regions.

Topics discussed include: third annual meeting between SCSS Core Group and ESF Members Organisations' Research Administrators (recommendation on the Fifth Framework programme and their relationships to national proposals, means and mechanisms for the European funding of comparative research projects); Standing Committee for Social Sciences exploratory grant scheme; input to the EU Fifth Framework Programme; Strategic Scientific Program Development: progress report of the TERM (Tackling Environmental Resource Management); SCSS exploratory activities (Media and the European Dimension, workshop on Transport research; Infrastructure Issues: social science databases; ESF scientific networks; brochure SCSS ESF; report from the SCH and the Asia Committee.

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