COST Actions

A COST Action is an interdisciplinary research network that brings researchers and innovators together to investigate a topic of their choice for 4 years. COST Actions are typically made up of researchers from academia, SMEs, public institutions, and other relevant organisations or interested parties.

Open to all science and technology fields, including new and emerging fields; COST Actions offer an inclusive, pan-European environment for individuals of all levels of seniority to grow their professional research networks and boost their careers.

In today’s world it is essential for research to be interconnected, interdisciplinary, collaborative and data-intensive. By focusing on networking activities, COST Actions help to advance knowledge and strengthen the research and development sector, by creating networking opportunities for researchers to meet and discuss ideas, complex problems can be addressed in a targeted way, across a large geographical area.

In addition to the dedicated COST Gateway, many COST Actions have launched their own Collections covering different thematic areas representing a wide range of disciplines. These Collections also also welcome submissions from non-COST authors. Here is an overview of the current COST Action Collections:

• Advances in Natural Language Generation
• Agonistic engagements and climate action: Inviting multidisciplinary concepts, methods and practices
• Blastocytosis
• Circular Economy in the Built Environment
• DepolarisingEU
• Fintech and AI in Finance
• Geophysics and Soil Science in Archaeology
• Linking Euroscepticism and Populism (EUPopLink)
• Marine Animal Forest Toolbox
• Multidisciplinary approaches to historical health inequalities (1800 – 2022)
• Non-machines: Playground of perspectives
• RELINK for Democracy
• Remote Sensing for Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
• Sexual Health and Sexual Medicine
• Toolkit of Care
• Universities for Sustainability
• Women on the Move