Porto Conference 'The Rationalization of the University' 06-07.05.1982:

The file contains preparatory correspondence, the programme and list of participants to the 23rd Bi-annual conferences, the list of members of the four working groups, the minutes of the 49th meeting of the Permanent Committee (07.05), as well as working documents including financial reports.

Working documents include: Application forms of CRE candidate members; ‘Points of view’ (Bulletin AIU Vol. XXIX, 1981/3); ‘Rationalization of universities – Porto 1982’; ‘The rationalisation of the university: the UK experience’ by Geoffrey Sims; ‘Rationaliser l’université: l’expérience néérlandaise’ by Jan Sperna Weiland (French text only); ‘The rationalization of the university: the Portuguese experience’ by Eduardo R. Arantes e Oliveira; ‘The rationalization of universities’ by Walter Kroll; ‘The rationalization of the university: the French experience’ by Lucien Braun; ‘The revival of collective autonomy’ by Markku Mannerkoski; ‘A new activity: CRE Information / Consultation service’; ‘Un projet interuniversitaire de recherche de la CRE’.

Hamburg 'The position of Research in the Universities' 18-19.11.1982:

The file contains preparatory correspondence, the programme and list of participants to the 24th Bi-annual conferences, the minutes of the 50th meeting of the Permanent Committee (19.11), as well as working documents and press cuttings.

Working documents include: Application forms of CRE candidate members; ‘Was ist die CRE?’; ‘University research and industry’ by Luigi Dadda; Text of an intervention by Prof. Dr. B. De Schutter; ‘The relationship between teaching and research – an introduction to the university point of view’ by Carl F. Wandel; ‘The relationship between university research and national research agencies’ by Lord Flowers; several booklets from the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Hamburg (DESY); ‘The future of universities as institutions of research’ by Peter Fischer-Appelt.

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