The objective of the sessions was to present the key achievements of the activities regarding integration of Ukraine into the European Research Area in 2021 and the plans defined by the Ministry for further comprehensive integration of Ukraine into ERA perspectives.

This info day was organised to create synergies between the public sector and the research community, business, civil society, and EU partners. In this context, the COST presentation aimed at providing researchers relevant information with key insights into a wide range of funding opportunities available at national and EU level.   There are currently 86 COST Actions with UA participation involving 23 institutions.

Katalin Alföldi, policy officer at the COST Association gave a detailed overview of the COST Programme and answered the question from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Ms Alföldi focused on the main differences between possibilities for the researchers and innovators from a COST Neighbouring Country and opportunities that are open when the country becomes an official member state of the program. She highlighted that researcher from Full COST Members are eligible to become main proposers. Therefore, they can submit a proposal on behalf of a proposing network and there are no limitations for hosting COST networking tools.

Source: COST I News (https://bit.ly/32s3Oo0)