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For innovative drug discoveries Everyone at some point in their life may need to take medication to treat an illness or disease. By finding new and better ways to create drugs, the COST Action Multi-target paradigm for innovative ligand identification in the drug discovery process (MuTaLig) helped improve the effectiveness and safety of the medications,…

What mechanisms exist in the US & Europe to support networking for the scientific community? How much networking and international collaboration is actually happening between researchers and innovators either side of the pond? As we are sure you know by now, COST funds research and innovation networks. Its Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe…

On 10 April 2019, the world discovered the first-ever picture of a black hole in stunning detail. While this groundbreaking achievement emerged from a global collaboration, the fruitful knowledge developed under COST Action NewCompStar helped to shape this titanic research landscape.

Young physicist Humeyra Caglayan received a European Research Council (ERC) grant after taking part in a COST Action on how to harness light energy. Nanoscale Quantum Optics has kick-started both her international career and a drive to greater gender equality in this field, she says.

Millions of people worldwide endure energy poverty, with their health and well-being suffering as a result. A new European network is helping researchers and policymakers to develop a common approach to improving energy access, and empowering at-risk consumers.

Over 5000 European researchers in academia and industry are involved in the Quantum community, firmly placing Europe at the forefront of innovation. However, women are woefully underrepresented within this number, a situation that is echoed within the wider research community, where according to the UN, women comprise only 30% of total researchers.  Above: Attendees of…

The JRC-COST INGSA 2021 satellite panel on ‘Independence in science advice’ explored how to improve the science-policy interface. Following a series of summer webinars exploring the stakes of science communication and science for policy exercises, COST and the JRC (Joint Research Centre) joined forces once again at the International Network for Government Science Advice‘s INGSA2021…

On 15 September 2023, as part of the Science Summit at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78), COST co-organised a session with the U.S. National Science Foundation AccelNET Program, in New York City, to discuss global scientific networking collaboration. For the first time, this concrete initiative joins two funding schemes and their projects. International…

On April 2021, COST introduced the new Virtual Networking Tools (VNTs) to support COST Actions’ activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.