The file contains: the draft minutes of the meeting (Chairman Robert Erikson), list of participants, agenda and schedule, brief for Chairman, as well as the 1998 membership list.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: CV, reports including the report from European social survey Steering and Methodology Committees, brochure on the Environment, Science and Society blueprint, exploratory workshop report and programme proposals, network proposals.
It also contains the paper "Patterns of social protection expenditure in the European Union by Franco Pieracchi.

Topics discussed include: summary of discussions of SCSS Core Group meeting; report from the Chairman on European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA) and on the OECD workshop on the social sciences; exploratory research grant scheme; scientific programme: preparation of a Blueprint for a European social survey; new scientific programme launched in 1998 (Tackling Environmental Resource Management, Summer Research Institutes on Comparative Studies of Economic Organisations); programme "Social Variations in Health Expectancy in Europe"; Geographic Information Systems: Data Integration and Data Base Design; Scientifics Networks (Gender, Politics and the State in Europe, The Foundations of Collective Action in the Metropolitan Areas of Europe, Innovative Practices and Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Urban Management in Developing Countries, Transport in the 20th century European City); Stockholm workshop on social science research in the EU Fifth Framework Programme; European Science Foundation/National Science Foundation research cooperation in the social sciences; Working Group on New Mechanisms for European Funding of Comparative Research projects in the social sciences; cooperation with the Standing Committe for Humanities; interdisciplinary cooperation with the Standing Committee for Medical Sciences and the Standing Committee for the Life and Environmental Sciences (LESC); ethic in research.

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