Network for Evaluation of One Health

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  • COST Petition: Future budget cuts

    In context of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), drawing budget from Horizon 2020, the COST Association is facing a potential 7% budget cut for operating the COST Framework. Not only would this impact the future number of COST Actions to be funded but most likely lower the funds of all ongoing COST Actions.

    Given COST great leverage and high impact on the European Research and Innovation capacities, the Committee of Senior Officials has therefore made a statement pleading for a conservation of COST budget. This statement has been shared with the European Commission and can be downloaded here.

    Moreover, we have decided to launch an online petition on the COST website where Actions’ participants and COST stakeholders and friends can show their support. This can be found at https://forms.cost.eu/petition

    If you believe that the COST should have stable and sufficient budgets to allow European researchers, engineers and scholars to connect and collaborate, please sign our online petition “Engaging for COST”.

    You will find the related News release here.

  • Applications for our first set of Short Term Scientific Missions is now open

    Applications are now open for Missions Occurring between 1 March 2015 and 31 January 2016

    Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are aimed at supporting individual mobility and at strengthening the existing networks and fostering collaborations by allowing scientists to visit an institution in another participating COST country or an approved NNC or IPC institution.

    This first STSM call aims to attract applications from researchers wishing to contribute to the tasks of Working Group 1 (WG1), i.e. to inform and engage in the development of a handbook/protocol for evaluation of One Health initiatives.

    STSMs in NEOH should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and / or methods not available in their own institutions / organisations, in particular of relevance for developing and performing evaluations of One Health activities.

    Highest priority should be given to encouragement of early-stage career investigators’ (ECIs) participation in the COST Action activities.

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