Summary

COST aims to enable breakthrough scientific developments leading to new concepts and products. It thereby contributes to strengthening Europe's research and innovation capacities.

COST does NOT fund research itself, but supports networking by the means of different tools such as meetings, short term scientific missions, training schools and dissemination activities through COST Actions.

COST invites proposals for Actions aiming at contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe to close the gap between science, policy makers and society throughout Europe and beyond.

Requirements

Proposals for a COST Action must represent a network of proposers from at least 5 COST countries (COST Member Countries or Cooperating State).

Submission & Evaluation

COST has established a new Action Proposal Submission, Evaluation, Selection and Approval procedure. This new procedure, fully Science and Technology-driven, will ensure simple, transparent and competitive proposal evaluation and selection, in line with the bottom-up, open and inclusive principles of COST.

Proponents benefit from a one-stage submission based upon a proposal of up to 15 pages.

The final decision on approval and funding for new COST Actions will be taken by the CSO in October 2015. Approximately 42 new Actions will approved, subject to available budget. Selected proposals for COST Actions will get a financial support in the range of EUR 130.000 p.a., normally for four years, subject to available budget.

The new Proposal Template (in electronic format) as well as the Guidelines for submitting COST Action proposals and evaluation criteria will be available here in January 2015. You can see the Provisional Proposal Template in PDF format attached.

Important: If you are interested in submitting a proposal to COST action, please contact Leonor Norton (lnorton(ELIMINAR)@fsjd.org) to get further information and  support.