COST: 2023 in numbers
The year 2023 has been particularly productive for COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). The number of COST Action Members increased by 38% reaching 46.822 members in Management Committees and Working Groups of active Actions, while 70 new COST Actions were approved.
Cyprus participated with 55 researchers in 33 out of the 70 new COST Actions approved in 2023, coordinating one of them. Overall, in 2023 more than 85 new nominations in Management Committees were completed, leading to a total number of Management Committee Delegates from Cyprus of more than 251 in 165 active Actions. In addition, an important number of people from Cyprus participates in Working Groups.
An important increase was observed in networking activities as well, with 2.090 short-term scientific missions being organised, 500 more than in 2022, 270 Training Schools, increased by 50 compared to 2022 and 464 Conference Grants for researchers from Inclusiveness Target Countries (160 more than in 2022).
COST continued to support the COST community through in-house trainings in the frame of the COST Academy, on topics such as ‘How to achieve greater policy impact’, ‘Social media for COST Action Chairs’, ‘Introduction to Science Diplomacy’, ‘How to coordinate international research networks’ and more.
The following infographics, present some interesting statistics about COST’s activities in 2023.
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) aims to create networking and cooperation opportunities for researchers, in order to strengthen Europe’s ability to face scientific, technological and social challenges. In particular, COST finances the coordination and management of networks, known as COST Actions, which are collaboration networks of researchers from different countries, who implement research work on a similar subject.
For more information, contact the responsible Scientific Officers of RIF, Ms Katerina Karakasidou ([email protected], 22205036) and Dr Mary Economou ([email protected], 22205051).