Publications

Climate change has wide-ranging adverse effects on wildlife and the essential ecosystem services they provide. Bats are a diverse and widely distributed group that make up about a fifth of all the native mammal species in Europe. All but one of our 45 species are insect-eaters, and they play a vital role in regulating insect populations. Despite their vulnerability to climate change, bats have received relatively little attention compared to other animal groups.

The COST corporate publication ‘Growing ideas through networks’ explains the COST programme and COST Actions, including how they work, who they are for and how to propose or join an Action.

View all running COST Actions and learn how you can participate.

Concepts, Ethics, and Methods

Childhood should be free of violence, and victims of childhood
maltreatment should be entitled to participate as expert informants in
research about these experiences. Placing children and adult survivors
at the heart of research efforts on child maltreatment is critical to
effective response and prevention measures in fighting this form of
violence.
Embedded in the European context, Participatory Research on Child
Maltreatment with Children and Adult Survivors presents a mosaic of
contexts, theories, and methods relating to children’s and adult
survivors’ participation in research about their adverse experiences.
Contributors demonstrate how research can mobilize children and
adult survivors to become agents in constructing and disseminating
reliable, evidence-based knowledge about child maltreatment.
Enriching ongoing debates about ethical concerns and challenges of
participatory research in the field of child maltreatment, this
contribution to Emerald Studies in Child Centred Practice highlights the
advantages that participation as a human right and as a valued
endeavour of scientific knowledge accumulation can bring to
communities of researchers and helping professionals.

This report presents the findings of the fourth wave of the COST Association Customer Satisfaction Survey, conducted in March and April 2023.

Overall, the survey results suggest customers hold COST, its services and its tools in high regard. At the same time, it points to some areas of improvement for the organisation’s work.

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This open access book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective regarding the immediate and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on coworking spaces in the European Region. The current pandemic has imposed several effects on work and spaces for work. Some are immediate effects and will last for a short time (such as the closing down of the space), some will last longer (namely, the reorganisation of the space to meet the physical distancing), and some will stay for a long time (remote working and hybrid working). Although the literature on coworking spaces and the effects of the pandemic is growing fast, empirical studies are yet limited. Within this context, this book seeks a twofold aim: (i) to contribute to the fast-growing literature on coworking space and their effects at different scales; (ii) to present a multidisciplinary perspective about the effects of the yet-lasting Corona-pandemic effects on the patterns of remote working and consequently on coworking spaces, as the most diffused form of new working spaces. 

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This paper produced by EurofamNet undertakes ‘a scoping study of the conceptualisation and delivery of family support in Europe’. It provides some starting points for the conceptualisation of family support in broad terms and highlights the centrality of children’s rights and family welfare perspectives to the aims and objectives of EurofamNet. It also sets out the aims, approach and design of the scoping study.

Recognising that efforts are still necessary to reckon with the heterogeneity of service delivery in family support, the internal disparities of professional cultures upon the external EurofamNet’s position of family and parenting support evaluation strategies | 6 input of evidence-based practices and the standards of an evaluation culture, this paper intends to contribute to a thorough and comprehensive position of the EuroFamNet COST Action on parenting support evaluation strategies. In what follows, this paper briefs the rationale of the evidence-based practice outlining its advances in family support services delivered in community settings. The short historical account traces how the perspectives and approaches to evaluate the putative effects of evidence-based parenting programmes also brought about an interest in the relations and linkages among research, professional practice and, more recently, policies and children and family participation.