Participation in international programmes

COST

COST (Coopération européenne dans le domaine de la recherche scientifique et technique) is an initiative of European countries which aims to promote scientific and technical cooperation in the field of pre-competitive research. Projects are supported in the course of subject-specific COST actions.

Member states (currently 35 European countries) decide whether to join specific COST actions and finance their respective national projects.

COST provides researchers from Europe and from associated non-European countries with an infrastructure to exchange expertise and cooperate with one another. The programme supports participating researchers by financing scientific events (workshops and conferences), travel costs to foster scientific exchange (short-term scientific missions) and participation in committee meetings as well as publications.

The FWF supports Austrian research projects participating in COST actions within the framework of its standard funding programmes.

Contact at the FWF
Reinhard Belocky

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