This volume incorporates the documents on educational research institutions and their research projects which were prepared for the Seminar for Directors of Educational Research Institutes and Professors of Education held at the Unesco Institute for Education, November, 1969. These documents, dealing with 32 institutions from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia, have not been previously published in any other international survey. For each entry, the description of the institution is given first, followed by a description of its research projects wherever these are indicated. The numbering of these projects corresponds to the order in which they were organized by the institutions concerned. The volume is published in English and French and two indexes are included to facilitate the reader's use of the work. (FDI)