Minutes of the meetings held in Nice on 26-27/04/1982 and in Brussels on 25-26/04/1983 (Chairman: Ingvar Lindqvist). Are also included the lists of participants, and agendas.

Topics discussed include: Recommendation of the ESRC to special relations between ESF and European Institutes of high reputation; European Geotraverse project, Wegener project; European Programme on the Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems; European Drosophila centre; Taxonomy; ESF activities in natural Sciences; Energy research; Review on the research funding situation in the United States and Canada; Joints NSF/ESRC Seminar on Planning and Evaluation of Research; International Programme of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES); Environmental Protection; Molecular Liquid Research; Polymer Science; Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

Working documents enclosed for the meetings include: memorandum, notes on the activities of some member organisations; Study on Crustal dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean by the Working Group on European Geo-scientists for the establishment of Networks for Earthquake Research (WEGENER); Reports on the European Drosophila Centre, on the Symposium on Physics in Developing Countries of Europe (Istanbul 4-5/09/1981), and on the European Threatened Plant Conservation.

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