Cost News Feb 2017

COST highlights

COST Actions turn the spotlight on Portugal

The e-COST tool reopens for submissions

What would you like the new COST website to be? We’d love to hear from you!

 

Science &
technology focus

Researchers uncover the origins of ash tree dieback and set out ways to fight it

COST Action EURNEGVEC publishes guidelines for diagnosing vector borne-diseases

Events

CITIZEN SCIENCE AND OPEN DATA: A MODEL FOR INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES IN EUROPE
A JRC-COST JOINT WORKSHOP

8 FEBRUARY 2017 | BRUSSELS

The workshop focused on strategies for collecting and sharing data gathered by citizens, with the aim to support a European early warning and rapid information system. Speakers’ presentations are available for download.

AGEING AND TECHNOLOGY
A COST-AAL-MYBL JOINT WORKSHOP

9-10 FEBRUARY 2017 | BRUSSELS

The event brought together the research community and technology developers to find ways to provide better ICT-enriched living environments for the elderly, leading to technologies that “older people” actually use. Speakers’ presentations will be available shortly.

In Brief
European Conference on Networks and Communications – EuCNC 2017 – call for papers, workshops and posters

The StableNextSol COST Action Project: Towards Stable Organic and Perovskite Solar Cell Technologies

COST Action TU0905 – Structural Glass Novel- Design methods and next generation products

ITS: A Tool or a Toy? Interview with the State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Transport, Viktor Stromček

ITS: A Tool or a Toy? Dr Floridea di Ciommo (TU1209) about how ITS can enable transport for all

ITS: A Tool or a Toy? Dr François Peyret (TU1302) on satellite positioning for better road traffic
ITS: A Tool or a Toy? – speakers’ presentations are now available

2017 Edouard Fabre prize – call for nominations