The dossier includes reports, draft agendas, documents for information and for decisions and network proposals of the meetings of the Selection Committee for Scientific networks: first meeting held on 20 March 1986 in Strasbourg; second meeting held on 23 May 1986, at the C.N.R.S., in Paris; third meeting held on 25 September 1986 in Strasbourg; fourth meeting held on 18 November 1986 in Strasbourg; fifth meeting held on 12 February 1987 in Strasbourg; sixth meeting held on 22 May 1987 in London, at The Royal Society; seventh meeting held on 30 September 1987, at Vereinshaus Glockenhof, in Zurich; eighth meeting held on 8 January 1988 at the ESF office, in Strasbourg; ninth meeting held on 27 April 1988 at the University of Stockholm.

Topics discussed include: procedure for selecting and managing Networks; Network proposals (Networks on Polar Science, Neurosciences, Molecular Biology of Mental Illness, European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Polymer Science, History of European Expansion, Inequalities in Social and Cultural Resources, Geochemistry, Crystallography of Molecular Biology, Alpine World, European Volcanology, Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, Surface Crystallography, Plant Science, Neural Mechanisms of Information Storage, Climate Research, Code-Switching, Non-Linear Mathematics, Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Adaptation, Science Policy, Financial and Monetary Technologies); phase 2 proposals (Earth Science Study Centres, Polar Science, Transport, Communication and Mobility); preparation of the Foundation's progress report on Scientific Networks to the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers; appraisal of the Trial Period 1985-1987.

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