Networks covering at least 5 participating COST countries are funded by COST actions. The actions are based on joint work programmes lasting four years. The funding amounts to up to 100,000 euros per year for the network. There are nine scientific areas:

• Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences;
• Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies;
• Earth System Science and Environmental Management;
• Food and Agriculture;
• Forests, their Products and Services;
• Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health;
• Information and Communication Technologies;
• Materials, Physical and Nanosciences;
• Transport and Urban Development.

Science management / working group meetings, scientific workshops and seminars, short term scientific missions (STSMs), training schools and research conferences, and dissemination and publications are funded. More

• Deadline for new applications: next application round is 20 October 2022, 12:00 noon.
• Joining ongoing cost actionsfor German partners

National contacts in the COST Programme