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Over 100 participants attended the COST Info Day at the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information in Bratislava on 7 February 2019, to discover how they could participate in pan-European research networking. Director of the COST Association, Ronald de Bruin addresses attendees at the Bratislava Info Day. During the Info Day, attendees learnt more…

Chairing COST Action TU0802, Sarah McCormack developed a well-knit interdisciplinary community in the area of energy storage systems. She is now an ERC Starting Grantee, developing new, efficient solar devices that store and use the energy that current systems in buildings and homes are wasting.

Introducing PIMENTO COST Action: promoting the innovation of Fermented Foods Microbes are important in human life and health in many ways, serving to ferment foods among other things. Fermented Foods (FF) have played a key role in human diets for millennia. Historically, the main role of the fermentative microorganisms was to counteract the action of…

COST welcomes the official launch of Horizon 2020, the European Union’s new research and innovation programme, announced on 11 December 2013 in Brussels. The highly anticipated announcement is an essential milestone in the transition to a more innovative and competitive Europe.

Director of the COST Association, Ronald de Bruin joined a high-level panel on Tuesday 26 January, for the Science Business event, “What’s next for UK-EU relations in science and technology?” The online event aimed to explore the latest developments and possible future impact on the R&I community following the finalised UK-EU trade deal made at…

21 March 2021 marks the International Day of Forests and is the first one celebrated in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Despite the many commitments, global and regional programs, the Global Forest Resources Assessment, FRA 2020, reports that an estimated 420 million ha of forest have been lost worldwide through deforestation since 1990. More than two billion…

Together with researchers in COST Action New Frontiers of Peer Review - PEERE, Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley have agreed on a protocol that enables peer review data sharing in a journal sample. This collaboration is meant to improve the quality, efficiency and sustainability of scholarly peer review.

The COST governing board – the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) – has appointed Utrecht University Prof. Dr Sierd A.P.L. Cloetingh as the new President of the COST Association for the next two years. His mandate is officially due to start on 21 June 2017, as he succeeds the outgoing President, Dr Ángeles Rodríguez Peña.…

Fostering multidisciplinary collaborations amongst researchers is essential to help address the complex challenges our society is facing. And sometimes, it only takes one workshop to spark a breakthrough idea. This is exactly what happened when representatives of three COST Actions, EuroScitizen, ALIEN-CSI and CS-EU, met during a workshop in Berlin in 2020 and decided to…