The file contains: the minutes of the meeting, and the agenda.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: papers "ESF: acting as a catalyst for European Social Sciences" by John H. Smith; "The crisis facing Research in Europe, East of the Oder" by Michael Vivian Posner (01/1992); Joint statement by the Euroepan Science Foundation and the academia European on problems in the scientific community of the former Soviet Union" by Umberto Colombo and Arnold Burgen; proposals; newsletters on current scientific ESF programmes: Beliefs in Government (BIG), Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE); press cuttings.

Topics discussed include: ESF/European Science Research Council report to CEC DG XII; report on current scientific programmes (BIG, RURE and ESS); new programmes under preparation in 1992: GIS, European Management and Organisations in Transition (EMOT), Human and Machine Learning; proposal for an European social science network and drug abuse and its control; Standing Committee for Social Sciences futures priorities; Central and Eastern Europe role of SCSS and the scope for new initiatives; new links with US funding agencies; ESF brochure on the social sciences.

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