Throughout March and April, we hosted over 600 researchers and specialists from all over the continent, involved in 25 new networks. The 25 kick-offs were a chance for them to meet and set out their networks’ goals and priorities. The Actions will receive an estimated EUR 13 million for the usual timeframe of 4 years, helping them put their research networking activities into practice.
All the Actions include researchers and specialists from a broad range of scientific fields. Almosthalf of the network leaders (48%)indicated their research coveredat least two main OECD fields of science and technology.Roughly half of the Actions (44%) mainly touch on natural sciences and medical and health sciences, while 24% are working in the field of engineering and technology and social sciences. The other Actions cover Agricultural sciences (16%) and humanities (4%).
Some of the topics include:
– personalised therapies for teenagers with mental disorders
– MRI biomarkers for diagnosing and treating chronic kidney disease
– wearable robots augmenting human motor functions
– crowdsourcing for language learning
– imaging techniques used in forensic science
– gravitational waves and black holes
The networks are growing, so if you are interested in playing an active role in an Action’s core group, visit www.cost.eu/participate/join_action.
If you would like to simply participate in an Action’s networking activities, have a look at the COST networking tools first:
http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/networking.
Contact your preferred Action’s Chair for details on how to sign up for such activities in the coming months.
See the whole list of new 25 COST Actions here