The file contains: handwritten notes and draft minutes of meeting (Chairman: Jens Erik Fenstad), list of participants, agenda, correspondence.
Working documents sent and distributed at the meeting include: notes; reports; draft proposals for programmes; review of proposals for programmes and networks; calls for proposals for scientific programmes in the PES; press releases; article "Defining a European space research policy, the role of the European Space Science Committee" by F. Becker and J.C. Worms; Commission Working paper "Towards the 5th Framework Programmes: Scientific and Technological Objectives" [COM (97) 47].
Also: Agenda 1997 from the ESF PESC Standing Committee and the Secretariat.

Topics discussed include: PESC action on European Science Foundation scientific activities: programmes and networks (Proposals: Structure and Dynamics of Complex fluids and Electronic Structure Calculations for Elucidating the Complex Atomistic Behaviour of Solids and Surfaces); issues to current ESF scientific programmes: Biophysics of Photosynthesis; PESC action on ESF scientific strategic activities: ESF plan 1998-2001, WG on Large Research Facilities, Framework Studies into Large Research Facilities (AUSTRON and EURO-CRYST, European Neutron Source Studies, Nuclear fusion, 100 Tesla Science Eurolab); ESF committees related to the PES: CRAF, ESSC, NuPECC, EERO; Reports from and PESC relations with CERC3, EUPRO, EPS.

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