Strategic workshops

Principles and Development of Bio-Inspired Materials

Bio-inspired materials are becoming of increasing interest in many fields of practical applications. In contrast to man-made materials natural materials such as wood, bone and shells are composed of only limited number of basic components. They gain their diversity in mechanical properties by hierarchical structuring which allows them to fulfil a variety of functions e.g. self-healing, mechanical stability, high toughness.

Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)
Forests, their Products and Services (FPS)
Materials, Physics and Nanosciences (MPNS)

Registration open

Strategic workshops

Benefits of Research Infrastructures beyond Science - The Example of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a $1 billion+ international project to create a radio telescope incorporating a receiving surface of a million square metres, fifty times larger than the biggest receiving surface now in existence.

Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Upon invitation only

External events

Standing Up for Science II

COST will give its Early Stage Researchers the opportunity to take part in a media workshop organised by Sense About Science.

Registration closed

External events

Portugal SB10 - Sustainable Building Affordable to All

This international conference sets out to make sustainable buildings more accessible.

Transport and Urban Development (TUD)

Open to public

Exploratory workshops

Physics of Amorphous Solids: Mechanical Properties and Plasticity

The objective of the workshop is to review state-of-the-art research in the fundamental physics of amorphous solids. The event will also look at the mechanical response of amorphous solids to large deformations, including homogeneous yielding via the elasto-plastic transition and flow localisation.

Materials, Physics and Nanosciences (MPNS)

Registration open

COST-ESF events

Cultural Literacy in Contemporary Europe - 2nd Workshop: Biopolitics, Biosociality and the Body

Over the past decades, the ontological status of the human body has become more and more questionable. The idea of the body as something naturally given which by definition precedes culture was securely anchored during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the traditional nature-culture-opposition.

Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH)

Upon invitation only

Seminars

Venture Philanthropy as a New Approach to Funding for Research

Beate Trück from the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) joined this February’s COST Seminar.

Ended

Exploratory workshops

Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Blood-Brain Barrier: State of the Art, Needs for Future Research and Expected Benefits for the EU

Despite recent advances, the treatment of brain diseases and neurological disorders, such as the Parkinson and Alzheimer syndromes, schizophrenia, many forms of epilepsy, chronic pain and migraine, remains a major challenge.

Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)

Upon invitation only

External events

Standing Up for Science

COST gave its Early Stage Researchers the opportunity to take part in a media workshop organised by Sense About Science.

Registration closed