Strategic workshops

Foresight on Future Demand for Forest-based Products and Services: Scenario Building

The aim of the COST Strategic Workshop series 2010-2011 is to carry out a wide-angle foresight exercise on the future demand for multiple forest-based products and services. The project combines expert workshops and a collection of data and perceptions by means of internet-based tools.

Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM)
Forests, their Products and Services (FPS)

Upon invitation only

External events

Shrinkage in Europe; causes, effects and policy strategies

COST Action TU0803 - Cities Regrowing Smaller organised a conference that looked at all aspects of shrinkage with the aim to present and discuss local experiences and research.

Transport and Urban Development (TUD)

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Seminars

The ERRIN network – 10 years of growth

In 2001 the European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN) was set up as an informal network of regional offices in Brussels discussing research and innovation opportunities within EU programmes. Ten years on, the network is now an established, dynamic and successful Brussels-based network of 90 regions, engaging regional representation offices across Europe.

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COST-ESF events

Cultural Literacy in Contemporary Europe: Synthesis Workshop

This workshop will draw together outcomes from the debates, discussions and conversations conducted within the thematic workshops.

Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH)

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External events

Water Scarcity Winter School 2011

The Z_GIS Winter School 2011 was dedicated to the theme of analysing, mapping and evaluating spatio-temporal water scarcity problems and was hosted by Salzburg University's Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS).

Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM)

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External events

Fifth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-5)

2011 is a most auspicious year marking the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity, and 25 years since high temperature superconductivity was first observed. 2011 has also been chosen as the International Year of Chemistry. This is intended as a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind. The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-5) offered a broad interdisciplinary overview of advanced materials and nanotechnology, and provided an exciting forum to discuss new and exciting advances in the field.

Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies (CMST)
Materials, Physics and Nanosciences (MPNS)

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External events

Academic Enterprise Awards Europe

The ACES, now in their third year, are the only pan-European awards for enterprise in university and public research institutes. They give public recognition to those researchers, engineers, professors, students and government officials in Europe who have done the most in 2010 to foster a culture of enterprise on campus. The awards culminate in a gala dinner and conference on academic enterprise.

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Seminars

COST & ERRIN Seminar: COST benefits?

COST gave a presentation to ERRIN members to explain the COST funding programme.

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Seminars

Promoting Research Integrity in Europe

The COST Office kickstarted the 2011 COST Seminar series by looking at a matter of worldwide concern: Research Integrity. At the Second World Conference on this topic, a key outcome was the agreement to the Singapore Statement which sets out 4 principles and 14 responsibilities which should be followed by researchers worldwide. Tony Mayer and Professor Nicholas H. Steneck, Co-Chairs of the First and Second World Conferences on Research Integrity, presented the Singapore Statement and Laura Marin, Science Officer at the European Science Foundation, introduced the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. They discussed how to promote research integrity to the highest level throughout.

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