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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

EUSpec MP1306: Modern tools for advanced materials spectroscopy: a European modelling platform

Specific programme: COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology
UPV/EHU: Member of the Steering Committee
UPV/EHU IP: Ángel Rubio
Project start: 18/03/2014
Project end: 17/03/2018

Brief description: This Action brings together the expertise of experts working in advanced materials science to build a coherent theory and computing platform with a new common data format to model sophisticated spectroscopy experiments performed at advanced radiation sources (ARS) as well as in academic and industrial research laboratories. Complementary theoretical approaches will allow to address a wide variety of materials. Ultimately, accurate interpretation of spectroscopies will provide the means to access the intimate origin of the macroscopic behaviour of materials, for which a detailed knowledge of the electronic, magnetic and geometric structure at the atomic level is a prerequisite. The platform established through this Action will be widely available to academic and industrial users. Close contact will be maintained through an extensive website, a series of workshops and a network of contact points at European synchrotron radiation (SR), X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) and neutron source (NS) centres. As the Action primarily aims to coordinate and synchronise ongoing research developments and activities, as well as to enhance the interaction between theory and experiment in the broader field of spectroscopy, COST is the most suitable framework to achieve these objectives.

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Contact information:

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