| 3 - 5 July 2018 |
Founding General Assembly in Paris, France |
| 30 June 2018 |
Effective date of merger |
| 11 - 16 May 2018 |
Electronic General Assembly |
| 21 - 27 October 2017 |
General Assembly Taipei (see GA website for breakdown of events) |
| 22 July 2017 |
Statutory deadline for distributing General Assembly agenda and documents |
| 28 - 29 June 2017 |
Joint meeting of the ISSC and ICSU executive bodies |
| 1 - 2 June 2017 |
Transition Task Force meeting |
| 30 - 31 May 2017 |
Strategy Working Group meeting |
| April 2017 |
Transition Task Force teleconference |
| 3 - 4 February 2017 |
Transition Task Force meeting |
| 31 January - 1 February 2017 |
Strategy Working Group meeting |
| 30 - 31 January 2017 |
Strategy Working Group workshop with external experts |
| 5 - 6 January 2017 |
First teleconferences of the Strategy Working Group (5 Jan) and Transition Task Force ( 6 Jan) |
| December 2016 |
Strategy Working Group and Transition Task Force appointed by the Executives of ICSU and ISSC |
| November 2016 |
Call for nominations for the Strategy Working Group and the Transition Task Force |
| October 2016 |
Joint ISSC/ICSU General Assembly decides in-principle to pursue a merger |
| June 2016 |
Joint meeting of the ISSC and ICSU Executives |
| April 2016 |
Executive bodies of ISSC and ICSU follow the Working Group's recommendation for the two Councils to merge, and recommend this course to the Councils' members |
| January 2016 |
First meeting of the Joint ICSU-ISSC Working Group |
| November 2015 |
Agreement reached on Terms of Reference for an ICSU-ISSC Working Group to explore closer institutional alignment, and possible amalgamation, between the two Councils |
| 2015 |
Exchange of letters between the ISSC and ICSU Presidents on the future relationship between the two Councils |