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COUNCIL OF
THE EUROPEAN UNION
Brussels, 23 May 2011
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182nd MEETING OF THE COST COMMITTEE OF
SENIOR OFFICIALS 1 2
Istanbul (TR), 17 – 18 May 2011
The 182nd meeting of the COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) was held in
Istanbul on 17 – 18 May 2011 at the invitation of the Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).
The meeting was chaired by Dr Angeles Rodrigues Peña (ES), the President of the CSO.
Additional budget for COST from FP7
The Committee welcomed the information from the European Commission DirectorateGeneral for Research and Innovation of the decision to allocate additional budget to COST,
as provided for in the Specific Programme “Cooperation” of the FP7, and as recommended
by the FP7 Mid-Term evaluation of COST in 2010. Of the total possible additional funds
of up to EUR 40 million, EUR 30 million will be released to COST, which will raise the
total budget for COST in FP7 to EUR 240 million. A further release of EUR 10 million
will depend on the development within the EU budget.
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COST, established in 1971, is an intergovernmental framework for cooperation and
networking of European research activities. COST does not fund research itself, but supports
networking activities such as meetings, conferences, short term scientific exchanges and
outreach activities. COST receives financial support for its coordinating activities from the
EU RTD Framework Programme (FP).
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Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom; Israel (cooperating state).
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COST position on the next FP
The Committee agreed to forward its contribution to the European Commission on the
consultation on the Common Strategic Framework for future EU Research and Innovation
Funding. COST aims to remain a vital player for the development of the European
Research Area and to contribute to the delivery of the Europe 2020 strategy and the goals
of the Innovation Union.
In this context the Committee also adopted a “COST Mission Statement” (doc.
COST 4152/11) as the basis for the COST strategy to respond to the new challenges –
while building upon its 40 years of successful history of implementing scientific
cooperation and networking in Europe.
COST approves 31 new Actions
The Committee approved the following new COST Actions1:
Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)
BM1101
European network for the study of dystonia syndromes
IT proposal)
BM1102
Ciliates as model systems to study genome evolution, mechanisms of
non-Mendelian inheritance, and their roles in environmental adaptation
(IT proposal)
BM1103
Arterial spin labelling Initiative in Dementia (AID) (UK proposal)
BM1104
Mass Spectrometry Imaging: New Tools for Healthcare Research
(NL proposal)
Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies (CMST)
CM1101
Colloidal Aspects of Nanoscience for Innovative Processes and Materials
(PL proposal)
CM1102
Multivalent Glycosystems for Nanoscience – MultiGlycoNano
(CH proposal)
CM1103
Structure-based drug design for diagnosis and treatment of neurological
diseases: dissecting and modulating complex function in the
onoaminergic systems of the brain (UK proposal)
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Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM)
ES1101
Harmonizing Global Biodiversity Modelling (HarmBio) (UK proposal)
ES1102
VALUE - Validating and Integrating Downscaling Methods for Climate
Change Research (DE proposal)
ES1103
Microbial ecology & the earth system: collaborating for insight and
uccess with the new generation of sequencing tools (UK proposal)
Food and Agriculture (FA)
FA1101
Omics Technologies for Crop Improvement, Traceability, Determination
of Authenticity, Adulteration and Origin in Saffron (ES proposal)
FA1102
Optimising and standardising non-destructive imaging and spectroscopic
methods to improve the determination of body composition and meat
quality in farm animals Acronym: FAIM (UK proposal)
FA1103
Endophytes in Biotechnology and Agriculture (DE proposal)
Forests, their Products and Services (FPS)
FP1101
Assessment, Reinforcement and Monitoring of Timber Structures
(CH proposal)
FP1102
Determining Invasiveness and Risk of Dothistroma (DIAROD)
(UK proposal)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
IC1101
Optical Wireless Communications - An Emerging Technology
(TR proposal)
IC1102
Versatile, Integrated, and Signal-aware Technologies for Antennas (VISTA)
(DE proposal)
IC1103
Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale
(IT proposal)
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Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH)
IS1101
Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy and Theory
(UK proposal)
IS1102
Social services, welfare state and places. The restructuring of social
services in Europe and its impacts on social and territorial cohesion and
governance (IT proposal)
IS1103
Adapting European health systems to diversity (ADAPT) (NL proposal)
Materials, Physical and Nanosciences (MPNS)
MP1101
Biomedical Applications of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Technology
IE proposal
MP1102
Chemical imaging by Coherent Raman microscopy – microCoR
(SE proposal)
MP1103
Nanostructured materials for solid-state hydrogen storage (IT proposal)
MP1104
Polarization as a tool to study the Solar System and beyond
(FR proposal)
Transdomain
TD1101
A Collaborative European Network on Rabbit Genome Biology
(RGB-Net) (FR proposal) (BMBS)
TD1102
Photosynthetic proteins for technological applications: biosensors and
biochips (PHOTOTECH) (IT proposal) (CMST)
TD1103
European Network for Hyperpolarization Physics and Methodology in
NMR and MRI (UK proposal) (MPNS)
Transport and Urban Development (TUD)
TU1101
Towards safer bicycling through optimization of bicycle helmets and
sage (SI proposal)
TU1102
Towards Autonomic Road Transport Support Systems (UK proposal)
TU1103
Operation and safety of tramways in interaction with public space
(FR proposal)
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Global participation in COST
COST has a tradition of being open to participation of institutions from non-COST
countries following the bottom-up principle and mutual benefit. Currently 459
institutions from 38 "non-COST countries" participate in 143 COST Actions.
At this meeting the Committee welcomed 43 new participants in COST Actions of
institutions from Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Georgia, India,
Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Russia,
Ukraine and USA.
Next CSO meeting
The next meeting of the CSO is scheduled for 30 November and 1 December 2011, also
including a joint session with the Chairs of the COST Domain Committees.
For further information call the COST Secretariat at + 32 2 281.68 96 or consult website
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cost
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