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The Open Call 2023 is now open. The next collection date will be 25 October 2023 at 12.00 (noon) CEST. The following collection date is expected in Autumn 2024.
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support for activities such as:
• the development of European-based scientific and technological networks in any scientific or
interdisciplinary domain;
• the exploitation of the research outcomes by integrating all stakeholders, thereby intensifying
the links between scientific communities, enterprises, policy makers and society;
• the dissemination of results of such research activities in order to improve their scientific, social
and economic impact;
• the provision for collaboration opportunities to all researchers in order to employ all talented and
creative human resources available in Europe overcoming the bottlenecks linked to geographic
location, age or gender;
• the facilitation of the international collaboration of the European research networks, thereby
increasing their efficiency, effectiveness and impact at global level;
• the appropriate further developments for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
in the context of the European Research Area based on European and global developments.
COST Action proposals must:
• represent a Network of Proposers from at least 7 different COST Full or Cooperating Members
among which at least 50% shall be from COST Inclusiveness Target Countries as detailed
in the Annex of this document;
• respect fundamental ethical principles as described in the Annotated Rules for COST Actions
(COST 094/21) and in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity10, with particular
emphasis on originality of findings and ideas, and on peaceful purposes of the addressed S&T
challenges;
• respect word and page limits as described in chapter 2.4.2 of this document. Do not change
in any way the compulsory format of the “Technical Annex” (font, margins, line spacing, etc.)
and make sure any added figures or tables are readable. Furthermore, do not provide links or
references to any additional information about the proposal (web link to pages describing the
proposal, audio-visual material, etc);
• be written in English, the working language of the COST Association;
• be anonymous, in order to comply with the double-blind principle of the evaluation
Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs)
Geographical spread includes less research-intensive COST Members. They are known as COST Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs):
The current list of ITCs include: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine (visible also on the map below in green).
