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, and CV.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: lists of the 1995-1996 and 1998 grants awarded and list of the applications under 1998 competition; draft summary of decisions at the Fifth annual meeting between the Standing Committee for Social Sciences Core Group and the European Science Foudation Member Organisations’ Senior Research Administrators; press cuttings; report from European social survey Steering and Methodology Committee meetings; proposals; ESF position paper on environment and health research for Europe (09/1998); newsletter from the EMOT (Issue n. 8).

Topics discussed include: European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA) and on ethics in research; SCSS exploratory grant scheme; scientific programme: preparation of a Blueprint for a European social survey; new scientific programme on social variations in health and expectancy in Europe; progress report on the interdisciplinary ESF scientific programme on environment and health; progress report on the preparation of a joint SCSS and Standing Committee for Humanities scientific programme on "Changing Media-Changing Europe"; Asian studies; scientific programmes (LHM, EMOT); ESF/NSF research cooperation in the social sciences; progress report from the Working Group on New mechanisms for European funding of comparative/collaborative research projects in the social sciences; scientific network.

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