The file contains the minutes of the meeting of the Working Group on Selection and support of scientific conferences and symposia in Bonn on 11/01/1979, of the ESRC meeting in Vienna on 23-24/04/1979, and of the informal ESRC discussion in Paris on 19/09/1979. Are also included agendas, lists of participants, and the working documents for the meetings.

Topics discussed include: Scientifics meetings; Travel grants; ESRC status; On-going activities and studies: Biological recording, systematics and taxonomy; Basic marine Science, Energy research, contact with developing countries, Scientific cooperation with the People’s Republic of China, occupational safety and health, rationalisation of scientific journals, selection and application of scientific conferences and symposia, fellowships and travel grants; future of ESRC; European Drosophila centre, UN conference on Science and technology for Development, European Physical Society Seminar, European Mathematical Council; ESF recent activities of interest to ESRC such as Synchroton radiation research, Space Science and Polymer Science.

Working documents enclosed for the meetings include: memorandum, notes, reports, letters; Terms of reference for the European Science Research Council Group; Results of an International Gathering of Scientists (Munich October 1978) on X Ray and Gamma Ray Astronomy in the 1980’s; Survey of existing contacts with the People’s Republic of China, article from the New Scientist (13/10/1977) "Specialist jamborees – Who benefits?"; Minutes of the Working Group on Basic Marine Science meeting in Bonn (04/07/1978).

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