COST Academy

Today we welcomed yet another group of new @costprogramme.bsky.social Action Grant Holder Managers, who will be taking care of their Action budget 💶 for the next four years. Thanks for joining us in Brussels to learn more about your role and COST financial rules and tools. 😊

Third group of new COST Action Grant Holder Managers joined us today at the @costprogramme.bsky.social office to learn more about COST rules and their important role in managing the Action budget for the next four years. 💶👩‍💻
Thank you all for joining and spending the day with us! 👏

The second #COSTAcademy Grant Holder Manager workshop of 2026 is currently on-going at our office! 💶🧑‍🔬
A big welcome to these new Grant Holders, who have joined us to learn more about COST financial rules and our e-COST system 💻 in order to manage their @costprogramme.bsky.social Action budget. ☺️

New year, new #COSTAcademy trainings!🙌
Today we were online with almost 50 new Grant Awarding Coordinators discussing the role and managing @costprogramme.bsky.social Action grants. 💶 Special thanks to Natasa Bozic (CA21162) and Donal Murphy-Bokern (CA22146) for sharing your experiences with us! 👏

We're live 📣 with young researchers 🧑‍🔬 from @costprogramme.bsky.social Actions learning about Open Peer Review from Emma Smith and Kelly Woods from Open Research Europe (ORE)/F1000. Big thank you to Inês Figueira from IMMUPARKNET(CA21117) for sharing your experiences from COST Action perspective. 👏

Supporting Young researchers is one of the main elements of @costprogramme.bsky.social inclusiveness policy. Today we're doing that through a specific training organised for them. Thanks to Blisard Zani and Lucas Chojnacki 🙌 for sharing your experiences as young researchers with the participants.

Great #COSTAction websites 💻 in the making. Today we were working on improving the Action websites with our Science Communication Coordinators. 👩‍🔬 Thank you all for joining! 🙌
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We're live 📣with our #COSTAction science communication teams learning more about online attacks 👩‍💻 towards scientists and science communicators. How to deal with them and what to do? Thanks to Matthias Fejes from Scicomm-Support for sharing your experiences and advice. 👏@costprogramme.bsky.social

The second day of #COSTAcademy Social media trainings this week was aimed at the #COSTAction Chairs. 📱 Thank you all for joining us to learn more about the different platforms and ways to promote your Actions and results. 🧑‍🔬👏 Don't forget to keep ➡️ @costprogramme.bsky.social updated on your posts.

Webinar. Peer review: tips for an open research approach. 21st october 2025

Calling young researchers, familiar with Open Peer Review? Are you new in your publishing journey & have questions on how it works? Join our @costacademy.bsky.social webinar with #OpenResearchEurope for peer review tips from an open research approach.

📆 21/10
🕒 14h-15h30
📄 Register: bit.ly/4nPYBdE

Spreading the results of @costprogramme.bsky.social Action networks to different target audiences is crucial. That’s why we’re focusing this week on mastering social media. Starting today with our Science Communication Coordinators. Thanks to all for joining us for the #COSTAcademy training! 😊

Yesterday we had our auditorium full for the third and final Leadership workshop for the young researchers in the newly approved @costprogramme.bsky.social Actions! 🤗 Great discussions and learning with this enthusiastic group. 😊 Looking forward to seeing you back soon, leading your COST Actions. 🧑‍🔬

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Starting the second week focused on Young researchers with a #COSTAcademy Leadership workshop. 🧑‍🔬 We got to engage in inspiring discussions with this amazing group. Thanks for the great insights and experiences of leadership roles by Indrek Heinla, Milorad Dragic, Neda Nikolovski and Olesia Kulyk. 👏

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Today was dedicated to learning about leadership and the different leadership roles in a #COSTaction with young researchers from the new Actions. Big thanks to Evis Trandafili, Raquel Villar Hernández and Quim Pena for sharing their experiences of different Action leadership roles. 👏

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This week has been all about Young researchers at #COSTAcademy! 🧑‍🔬 On Tuesday and Wednesday we organised a pilot Young researcher training for running #COSTactions. Thanks to Adna Ašić, Daniel Patauner and Amil Orahovac for sharing their experiences from Actions with the participants. 🙌

We're live with the first #COSTAcademy follow-up online training on How to write policy briefs with Bart Veys, Head of the Policy unit at @costprogramme.bsky.social. Learning more about what to take into consideration when sharing the results of #COSTactions with policymakers.

The cooperation between science 🧑‍🔬 and policymakers is important. This is why we learned today more about the EU institutions and competences and discussed how and when #COSTactions should contact policymakers to share their research results. Thank you all for joining! 🙌 @costprogramme.bsky.social

Great day of learning how to manage large #COSTAction research networks. 🤝 We've had engaging discussions and exercises on e.g. how to get decisions made, delegate and manage multidisciplinary and multicultural research networks. Thank you all for joining us today!
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We shared a great day with these young #COSTaction leaders and future leaders learning more and discussing about different aspects of leadership.
Thank you all for joining the #COSTAcademy Leadership workshop! 🙌 Looking forward to seeing you soon again! @costprogramme.bsky.social

Young researchers are important for #COSTactions. 🧑‍🔬 That's why we're focusing today on training them on leadership skills. Starting with presentations by experienced Action leaders Indrek Heinla, Ghazal Etminan and Jitka Cejkova. Thank you for sharing your experiences! @costprogramme.bsky.social

Leading large international research 🧑‍🔬networks can be challenging. 🌍 Today we discussed with new #COSTaction Chairs the dynamics of Actions, e.g. group decision making, situational leadership and cultural differences in research cooperation. Thank you for joining us! 😊
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The afternoon of the #COSTaction Chairs' Forum was all about discussions between the Chairs on common topics in managing the Action. Thank you all for joining and for your contribution to the discussions. 🤝☺️
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Second #COSTaction Chairs' Forum today bringing together new Action Chairs to discuss common topics in managing Actions. Starting with presentations by experienced Chairs Martin Mokros, Gordana Rakic and Eduard Doujak, who shared their knowledge and tips with new Chairs. @costprogramme.bsky.social

Many of the #COSTaction Chairs share similar challenges in managing their Action. The afternoon of our #COSTAcademy Chairs’ Forum was dedicated to peer discussions and sharing to address the issues and to find common solutions. Thank you all for your contributions!
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Today is all about #COSTaction Chairs. Starting the Forum with presentations by experienced Chairs Mattia Mori, Christophe Chassard and Meri Cvetkovska, who shared their valuable experiences and tips on managing the Action networks with the newer Chairs. 🤝
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COST Academy supports different leadership roles within COST Actions by organising hands-on trainings tailored to the different needs. 🧑‍🔬 In this way the learnings can be directly applied to benefit the research networks.
More here: 🔗https://www.cost.eu/academy/
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