The file contains: draft minutes of the meeting (Chairman: Juan M. Rojo), including the list of participants, agenda, draft minutes of the Core Group meeting (25/10/2001) including list of participants and agenda; correspondence; Chairman’s brief.
Working documents enclosed for the meetings include: Notes from the PESC materials workshop (19/09/2001) and on priorities in materials research; PESC core group comments on the 6th FWP "Integrating research" document, reports such as on the workshop on Future Advanced Light Sources (23-24/10/2000) and "A review on the ESA microgravity programme advances protein rystallisation facility", conclusions of the ESF policy forum on Materials Sciences (22-23/03/2001), lists of programmes, and networks also of network proposals; exploratory workshops proposals reports and rapporteur’s report and research assessments.

Topics discussed include: discipline coverage in the standing committee and the core group; strategic activities: report on current completed reviews and studies, interaction with other European Science Foundation and external bodies (CRAF, ESSC, NuPECC, COST), European research area and 6th FWP, future strategy initiatives; scientific activities: recommendations for exploratory workshops and networks proposals, updates of EUROCORES; scientific session: presentation of the ESF scientific programme "Quantum information theory and quantum computation".

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