COST Countries
COST Member States -
The 27 EU Member States, EFTA Member States (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland), EU Candidate Countries (Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Turkey), COST Cooperating States (Israel), and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
According to the COST rules, participation of member states is based exclusively on a voluntary approach. They participate only in mutually agreed Actions, depending on their interest, relevance of joint research and shorter time needed to achieve envisaged results. The achieved results are the property of all participants, who have to provide full funding for agreed research and concerted activities themselves. COST member states merely endorse the Actions by signing a Memorandum of Understanding, thus increasing their importance and providing moral support.
