COSTRedes de Cooperación Europea en

Ciencia y Tecnología

Jornada nacionalMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

19 de junio de 2019

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I. Acciones COSTII. Políticas COSTIII. ¿Cómo participar en COST? - ProcedimientosIV. COST en EspañaV. Resultados de la OC-2015 y OC-2016VI. Servicios de la Oficina Europea

Acciones COST

Es el instrumento que utiliza el programa COST para permitir a los investigadores,

ingenieros, etc desde los países miembros de COST y/o estados cooperantes unirse para

desarrollar sus propias ideas y nuevas iniciativas en un campo o topic de interés común.

COST NO FINANCIA INVESTIGACIÓNCOST NO FINANCIA INVESTIGACIÓN

CARACTERÍSTICASCARACTERÍSTICAS

A network of researchers, engineers and scholars with

nationally funded research

Collaborating in S&T fields of common interest to at

least seven COST Countries

Answering to the COST Open Call for proposals

Evaluated and selected via a tailored procedure

Based on a joint work programme for 4 years

Expandable to new participants

Implemented through networking activities: Meetings,

Working Groups, Conferences, Workshops, Short Term

Scientific Missions, Training Schools and

Dissemination Activities

Average Annual COST Budget EUR 130 000

Pursuing the fulfilment of the objectives and

deliverables described in the approved proposal

(Memorandum of Understanding)

Países COST – 48 años de colaboración científica

• 38 COST MembersAlbania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Republic ofMoldova, Montenegro, The Netherlands, TheRepublic of North Macedonia, Norway, Poland,Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia,Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and UnitedKingdom

• 1 Cooperating MemberIsrael

• Near Neighbour Countries participation

Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt,Georgia, Jordan, Kosovo*, Lebanon, Libya,Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Syria,Tunisia and Ukraine

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with

UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration ofindependence.

• COST Members• COST Members (ITCs)• COST Cooperating member

International Cooperation

Acciones COST – Estructura

COSTAssociation

AdministrationWG1

WG2

Horizontal groups

WG leaders

WG3

WG4

WG5

WG6

MANAGEMENTCOMMITTEE

(MC)

GRANT HOLDER(GH)

Action Chair

Vice Chair

GH Scientific Rep.

STSM coordinator

Scientific Com. Manager

Leadership Positions

WG leaders

WG3

WG4

WG5

WG6

MANAGEMENTCOMMITTEE

(MC)

GRANT HOLDER(GH)

Action Chair

Vice Chair

GH Scientific Rep.

STSM coordinator

COSTNETWORKING

TOOLS

MC & CORE GROUPMEETINGS

WORKSHOPS &

CONFERENCES

DISSEMINATION

SHORT TERMSCIENTIFIC MISSIONS

TRAININGSCHOOLS

Acciones COST – Herramientas

WGMEETINGS

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II. Políticas COSTIII. ¿Cómo participar en COST? - ProcedimientosIV. COST en EspañaV. Resultados de la OC-2-2018VI. Servicios de la Oficina Europea

aiming at:

Excellence & Inclusiveness Geographical coverage

Early Career Investigators

(ECI)

Gender balance

Openness All fields of S&T

All kind of participation

Academia, SME/Industry,

…

All countries

Políticas COST

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III. ¿Cómo participar en COST? -Procedimientos

IV. COST en EspañaV. Resultados de la OC-2-2018VI. Servicios de la Oficina Europea

¿Cómo participar en una Acción COST?

De acuerdo con el principio “bottom -up ”, la iniciativa depresentar una nueva Acción COST procede de losinvestigadores, ingenieros, estudiantes.

Esencialmente hay tres formas de participar en una Acción:

Open Call = Propuesta de una nueva Acción.

Approved Action = Unirse a una Acción en marcha.

Become a COST Expert

Become a COST Expert

EVALUADOR COST -Convocatoria Abierta

https://www.cost.eu/who-we-are/working-with-us/participate-external-expert/

Approved Action

Unirse a una Acción en marcha…

La formalización de la participación de un investigador en el MC de una acciónCOST, es a través del CNC mediante la e-COST. El procedimiento para aceptarel Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) también pasa por la e-COST.

Como miembro del Management Committee (MC):Contactar con CNC

Como participante de un Working Group (WG ):Contactar con los responsables del WG.

Como participante en las actividades de la Acción:Short Term Scientific Mission, ITC Conference grant, Training School,Workshop/Conference, …

¿Cómo encontrar Acciones COST en marcha?

Open Call

Solicitar una Acción nueva - Open Call

COST Open Call

Collection every 9 monthsNext: 5 September 2019 – 12:00

CET

One stage online submission of proposalseCOST account

Who? Main proposer(and secondary proposers)

40 – 45 Actions approved per collection

Portal COST: www.cost.eu

SESA Guidelines, Technical Annex, Etc…

https://www.cost.eu/funding/how-to-get-funding/open -call/

Proposals

Proposals

Eligibility!

COST Excellence and Inclusiveness Policy Specific objectives

Technical Annex1. S&T excellence*2. Networking Excellence3. Impact4. Implementation

General features

Network of proposers

Anonymous*Min ITCFormatPeaceful purposeEnglish

Online submission tool (e -COST)www.cost.eu/ecost

Open Call for proposals –Technical Annex

Sections Sub-sections

1. S&T EXCELLENCE 1.1 soundness of the challenge1.2 progress beyond the state-of-the-art

2. NETWORKING EXCELLENCE

2.1 added value of networking in s&t excellence2.2 added value of networking in impact

3. IMPACT 3.1 impact to science, society and competitiveness, and potential for innovation/break-throughs3.2 measures to maximise impact

4. IMPLEMENTATION 4.1 coherence and effectiveness of the work plan

Open Call for proposals –Technical Annex

Evaluation - SESA

Step 1: External remote evaluation

Step 2: Revision and quality check by Review Panels

Step 3: Selection by the Scientific CommitteeCOST policy and objectives

Step 4: Approval by COST committee of Senior Officials - Results 7-8 months after submission

3 independent external experts

Technical Annex

Evaluation criteria – step 1

S&T EXCELLENCENETWORKING EXCELLENCE

IMPACT IMPLEMENTATION

- Soundness of the Challenge- Progress beyond the state-of-the-art

- Added value of networking in S&T Excellence- Added value of networking in Impact

- Impact to science, society and competitiveness, and potential for innovation/ break-throughs- Measures to maximise impact

- Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan

Total marks forthe section: 15 points

Total marks forthe section: 15 points

Total marks forthe section: 15 points

Total marks forthe section: 5 points

Total marks awarded: 0-50 pointsOverall threshold: 34 points

Open call for proposals – how -to

oRead the official announcement

oRead the SESA Guidelines

oOnline registration and submission (e-COST)

oTechnical Annex template

oHelpdesk: opencall@cost.eu

o Crear una nueva red (diferente a las redes existentes).

o Mostrar la necesidad de la creación de esa red (importancia de lospartners).

o Abordar las prioridades de COST (inclusiveness, integration of ESR, genderbalance, international cooperation, SME).

o Centrarse en los objetivos propuestos en la Acción (Grupos de Trabajo –WG).

o Usar todas las herramientas de la Red mostrando cómo su uso contribuirá ala consecución de los objetivos de la Acción propuesta.

¿Cómo preparar una buena propuesta?

o ‘Institutions’ from COST Member Countries, Near Neighbour Countries and

International Partner Countries.

o Government Organisations, except Intergovernmental Organisations.

o Universities and Associated Organisations.

o Business Enterprises (ranging from SMEs to multinationals).

o Private Non-Profit Organisations/NGOs (even if international).

o Standards Organisations (even if international).

o European Commission and EU Agencies.

o European RTD Organisations Los miembros de éstas representan al país que los

nomina, no a la organización.

o International Organisations (i.e. intergovernmental organisations whose members

are countries).

¿Quiénes pueden participar?

Nominaciones al MC - procedimiento

Cuando 7 países han firmado el MoU la Acción COST puede comenzar

Kick off meeting en Bruselas

Procedimiento español:

Mes 1: recepción de EoIs

Mes 2: evaluación

Mes 3: nominaciones y firma de MoU

1.- Acciones COST se publican en la web de COST

2.- COST Association informa a los proposers de las Acciones financiadas

3.- Cada país pone en marcha su procedimiento para nominar al Management Committee (MC)

Novedades del programa

Vademecum update

o Clarification on MC decision going against

COST rules (Section 2)

o Change of eligibility of Grant Holder Managers

(Section 3)

o Adding Lobbying firms to the list of non-eligible

costs (Section 3)

o Minor improvements (Section 4)

o Extra information concerning V.A.T reimbursed

to individuals (Section 3.4)

Novedades del programa Vademecum update

o Specification on travel costs of infant in case of

breastfeeding added (Section 5)

o Travel insurance removed from non-eligible costs

(Section 5)

o LOS – Update of the list of eligible expenses

(Section 7)

o Simplification on STSM rules (Section 8)

o Simplification on the ITC Conference Grant (Section

9)

o Update of the list of eligible and non-eligible costs

under Dissemination (Section 10)

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Participación española I

The graph below shows the total number of

reimbursed participants from national

institutions in COST Action networking activities

(meetings, Short Term Scientific Missions,

Training Schools).

Participación española II

COST stimulates the participation of

Early Career Investigators - ECI

(between PhD and PhD + 8 years) The

graph below shows the share of ECI

among participants from national

institutions in COST Action networking

activities (meetings, Short Term

Scientific Missions, Training Schools).

Participación española III

The first graph below shows the total amount that benefitedparticipants from Spain. This includes the financial supportto meetings (travel reimbursement, organization), ShortTerm Scientific Missions, Training Schools, administrativesupport to the Grant Holder institution (FSAC) but notdissemination expenses.

The second graph shows the country’s share in relation tothe total budget of the Actions.

Participación española IV

The graph below shows the number ofparticipations from Spain in thefollowing networking activities: ShortTerm Scientific Missions – STSM (up to6 months) and Training Schools – TS(up to 2 weeks) as trainee or trainer.

The graph below shows thenumber of COST Action activitiesheld in Spain and open toparticipants from abroad:meetings (conferences,workshops, etc.), Short TermScientific Missions (STSM) andTraining Schools.

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V. Resultados de la OC -2-2018VI. Servicios de la Oficina Europea

Resultados de la OC-2-2018

• 483 proposals were registered in e-COST.

• 356 proposals were submitted by the collection date of 29th November 2018.

• 127 proposals (26,3%) were not submitted.

Resultados de la OC-2-2018

There were no Main Proposers

from Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus,

Moldova, Montenegro and

Slovakia.

Resultados OC-2-2018

El detalle de las 4 Acciones COST lideradas por investigadores afiliados a entidades españolas son:

Código Título de la Acción Institución

CA18221 Pesticide Risk AssessMent for Amphibians and ReptilesUniversidad de Castilla La

Mancha

CA18229 Non-Conventional Yeasts for the Production of Bioproducts IMDEA Energy

CA18222 Attosecond ChemistryInstituto Madrileño de

Estudios Avanzados

CA18209 European network for Web-centred linguistic data science Universidad de Zaragoza

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VI. Servicios de la Oficina Europea

La OFICINA EUROPEA

• Promote the participation and leadership of theSpanish R&I system in H2020.

Objective

•EXCELLENT SCIENCE: ERC, FET & MSCA

•SWAFS

•Challenge 6

•COST

Areas

• OPIs, Universities, public R&I centres

Target group

Objetivos de participación en Horizonte2020

• Aumentar un 30 % el retorno obtenido por cada uno

• Liderar al menos el 10 % de los proyectos financiados

• Aumentar un 15 % el número de nuevas entidades que acceden a H2020.

Servicios como COST National Coordinator

• Assistance and advice.

• Approval of the Action Memorandum of Understanding

(MoU).

• Nomination of representatives to the Action Management

Committee (MC).

• Nomination of Review Panels experts.

• Communication to national communities.

Communication to

nationalcommunities

Nominationof Review

Panel experts

Nominationof

representatives to the

Action MC

Approval of the Action

MoU

Assistanceand advice

Servicios como COST National Coordinator

• Resolución de dudas (≥850 correos).

• Entrevistas.

• Asesoramiento en la preparación de propuestas.

• Nominación cada 2 años.

• Nominar a 18 expertos (3*6 áreas temáticas OCDE).

• 2 MC members.

• 3 MC substitutes.

http://www.eshorizonte2020.es/mas-europa/otros-programas/cost

Assistanceand advice

Approval of the Action

MoU

Nominationof

representatives to the Action MC

Nominationof Review

Panel experts

Communication to nationalcommunities

Gracias por su atención!!

Noelia Romero López - CNC COSTOficina Europea/FECYT

MCIU

Contacto: noelia.romero@fecyt.es