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 (23/10/2002) including list of participants and agenda; correspondence; Chairman’s brief.
Working documents enclosed for the meetings include: proposals, evaluations and rapporteur’s report for the full programme proposals, networks proposals, and exploratory workshops; review of the EMRC, LESC and PESC by the Royal Society report; report of the ERCIM-European Science Foundation collaboration (30-31/05/2002), ESF working agenda, reports, lists of programmes, networks, and exploratory workshops, networks proposals including CV, evaluations [CONFID.]

Topics discussed include: European Research Council debate; review of PESC, LESC and EMRC; strategic activities: European Spallation Source, future advanced light sources, EUROHORCS, ERCIM/ESF workshop, forward looks (Nanoscience and the long term evolution of information Technology, Urban Science), research infrastructures, relations with ESF expert committees, external interactions; scientific activities: overview current programmes, networks and exploratory workshops, reviews mid-terms and final, recommendations for exploratory workshops and networks, EUROCORES, EURESCO; NSF/ESF, Core Group memberships.

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