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COST Actions

COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe.

COST funds pan-European, bottom-up networks of scientists and researchers across all science and technology fields (COST does not set any research priorities). These multi- and interdisciplinary networks, called 'COST Actions', promote international coordination of nationally funded research. COST supports high-risk, innovative and emerging research themes.

COST does not fund research itself, but provides support for networking activities carried out within COST Actions. COST Actions are very oriented towards engaging the next generation of young researchers.

COST Actions are active through a range of networking tools, such as meetings, workshops, conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions (STSMs) and dissemination activities. COST Actions are open to researchers at any career stage from universities, public and private research institutions, as well as to NGOs, industry and SMEs. Actions can expand, as researchers from new countries can join in during the first three years. On the basis of mutual benefit, Near Neighbour Countries and International Partners Countries may join.

To learn more about participating in COST Actions, please visit the Participate page.

COST invites researchers throughout Europe to submit proposals for COST Actions through a continuous Open Call

Researchers can also apply to join an existing COST Action or become involved in various COST Action activities.

Here, you can browse through all the running COST Actions

COST Actions in which UPV staff participate

CM1304: Emergence and Evolution of Complex Chemical Systems

COST CM1304 website

Specific programme: COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Member of Management Committee
UPV/EHU PI: Kepa Ruiz Mirazo
Project start: 03/12/2013
Project end:   02/12/2017


Brief description: This Action brings together over 80 European research groups focusing on complex chemical systems or Systems Chemistry. Complex systems are all around us, ranging from ecosystems, to global infrastructure and computational grids and social networks. Complexity science is well developed in many disciplines, including sociology, physics and biology, but has remained underdeveloped in chemistry. Yet, of all disciplines, chemistry probably harbors the richest diversity of all complex systems, since it deals with the smallest entities that can still be readily manipulated: molecules. A stunning example of what may emerge from chemical complexity is life. Yet life is only one example, and with the creativity that comes natural to chemists many other systems may be created.
Until recently the development of complex chemical systems has been next to impossible, due to a lack of tools for analyzing complex mixtures. However with the recent advances in instrumentation, complex mixtures are now tractable, opening up a huge, exciting and fundamentally new research field. This field is the chemical counterpart to two topical areas in biology: systems biology and synthetic biology. Where the latter fields take a top-down approach, developing complex chemical systems takes place from the bottom up. The advantages of a bottom-up approach are in the ability to control every component and in the unlimited structural variety that is at the synthetic chemist's disposal. The momentum in this field of complex chemical systems is gathering rapidly, but it remains fragmented. Researchers from the mostly unconnected fields of the origin of life, supramolecular chemistry and researchers working on far-from-equilibrium systems are now independently converging on the central topic Systems Chemistry. This COST Action is at the heart of this exciting development.

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Contact information:

International R&D Office UPV/EHU
Email: proyectoseuropeos@ehu.es