50 years of research networks

2019

EMMY AWARD FOR COST ACTION CHAIR

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2012

40 YEARS OF ‘NETWORKS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY’

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2019

EUROPEAN EXPERTISE PROVIDES FERTILE GROUND FOR FIRST-EVER BLACK HOLE IMAGE

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Women's participation in COST Actions

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I was very open about my ideas for the ERC proposal and talking them through with COST collaborators helped improve my concepts or added new aspect.
Professor Urszula Stachewicz

COST is a gap-filler – it supports cooperation between different types of organisations, different career levels, cooperation between participants with different opportunities, etc.

Interview with Dr Ülle Must

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2020

ACTION PARTICIPANTS CONTRIBUTE TO FIRST ONLINE TOOL FOR DRUG REPURPOSING PREDICTION AGAINST SARS-COV-2

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2018

DOORS OPENING ACROSS EUROPE THANKS TO TREE TALK

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2014

THE COST ASSOCIATION IS UP AND RUNNING

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Prof. Paulo Ferrão

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Mobility is important and it is necessary. It broadens your horizons and allows you to learn different techniques.

2011

INTERVIEW WITH 2010 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE IN PHYSICS PROF. KONSTANTIN NOVOSELOV

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2008

WIDENING FRONTIERS

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2019

COST SCIENTIST AWARDED 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

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WHY JOIN A COST ACTION?

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COST – What's in it for researchers?

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DR ÁNGELES RODRÍGUEZ PEÑA

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MR Robert-Jan Smits

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COST EXHIBITION AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

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COST GREEN ENGINEERING CAMP (GEC)

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2018

COST NETWORK MAKES LASTING IMPACT ON CARBON-SAVING STANDARDS

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COST is agile and focused on networking of excellent scientists on a European scale and can quickly be mobilised to support cross-disciplinary or emerging fields of RTD which is even more relevant today.

Peter Wintlev-Jensen

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THE COST CONNECT AND THE COST ACADEMY

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EXCELLENT RESEARCH REQUIRES TOP RESEARCH SUPPORT

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This is a significant characteristic of COST: the formation of persistent networks that continue beyond the end of any single Action. The nature of COST is to enable and amplify the cross-fertilisation of ideas through international networks of scholars. It enables the construction of very stable and meaningful relationships.

PUTTING THE SOCIAL INTO OLD AND NEW MEDIA

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Prof Janet Mifsud

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Prof. Sierd Cloetingh

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COST SCIENCE NIGHT 2012 HIGHLIGHTS

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Dr Eva Klapper

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Dr Emmanuel Pasco -Viel

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2019

NURTURING SUSTAINABLE BIO-BASED CONSTRUCTION

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The COST Action helped us to recognise patterns in the innovation chain. To see what investors need and understand the common strategies for success.
Martin O'Halloran, Researcher at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
2021

‘MATH-A-THONS’ FIND SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES AND SOCIETY

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2020

COATINGS NETWORK FIGHTS AGAINST FUTURE PANDEMICS

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Ms Rita Ward

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Prof. Francesco Fedi

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How genomic can help farmers

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DR Ivana Ognjanovic

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A very important time for me personally was when the former Czechoslovakia joined the COST Programme in 1991.

PROF MILAN DADO

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2017

ROBOTS ACROSS EUROPE HELP CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

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DR MERSIHA MAHMIC KAKNJO

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GORAN TMUSIC

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2018

THE BIG CHILL: HOW FREEZING FOOD MAY HELP THE BATTLE WITH CANCER

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Dr Arta Lugaj

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ESOF 2014: LEADERS IN TRANSDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE

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The COST programme helped me to increase my personal scientific networking. The Action brought my work on modelling into contact with people working on measurement and I benefited a lot from that

MOTIVATING MOBILE COMMUNICATION

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MR Dren Gerguri

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Prof ELENA DUMOVA-JOVANOSKA

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Finally, my lab hosted a successful AMICI seminar in Tallinn (2017) and was active in all the annual and working group meetings of AMICI. Thus, this COST Action has been a real success story for my lab. ”

Prof. Anne Kahru

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2016

THE FIRST REFERENCE FOR SIGN LANGUAGE GRAMMAR WRITING EMPOWERS SIGNERS ALL OVERTHE WORLD

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If COST did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it. COST is based on excellent ideals like openness, knowledge creation and sharing, international cooperation, added value and inclusion.

Prof. Sjur Baardsen

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COST celebrates its 50 years anniversary – 50 years of science without borders

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