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would increase international subscriptions.
However this failed, and after 24 issues had
been published the Index was discontinued
in 1969. Another index on surface and
vacuumphysics (Index zur Oberflächen- und
Vakuumphysik), compiled at the Max Planck
Institute for Plasma Physics at Garching
through the efforts of K. Diels (D), was
published in cooperation with the IUVSTA
for 17 years (1966-1982) but eventually met
with similar financial difficulties because of
insufficient subscriptions.
Another activity of the Documentation
Committee related to the preparation of a
subject classification for vacuum in close
collaboration with Technical Committee 112 of
the International Standards Organisation
(ISO). The working groups on measurements
and standardisation also worked closely with
the ISO and eventually all of these activities
were taken over by the ISO.
Other initiatives were made possible through
liaison with UNESCO. In 1983, at the start
of his period as President, J. Antal (H)
recognised that the educational objectives of
UNESCOclosely resembled one component
of the Union’s educational aspirations.
Accordingly he set up a UNESCO Liaison
Committee with M. Croset (F) as chairman
and by the following year a Protocol for
Cooperation with UNESCO had been
drawn up and accepted by the EC. The first
achievement of this committee, resulting
from personal contacts established by
M.Croset with people within the UNESCO
headquarters in Paris, notably S. Raither,
was the granting of US$ 3000 support for
scientists from developing countries (Brazil,
China and India) to travel to a Joint Vacuum
Conference (JVC-3) in Debrecen in Hungary
in 1985.
The committee was later renamed the Liaison Committee, in 1986, to acknow
ledge its broadened scope but it has continued to be chaired by M. Croset,
supported strongly and actively by S. Choumoff (F). Over the early years, grants
totalling about US$ 10,000 per triennium continued to be received fromUNESCO,
principally to help scientists and students from developing countries and Eastern
Europe to attend and participate in international conferences and schools.
In 1987 it was recognised that the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP) in Trieste was partly supported by UNESCO and that UNESCO was
encouraging ICTP to develop an emphasis on AppliedPhysics topics. Accordingly,
IUVSTA approached ICTP with the suggestion that a joint Educational Workshop
should be organised on the Science and Technology of Thin Films. This was so
successful that continued collaboration with ICTP has led to a series of these
workshop/schools, as reported in Section 13.
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