Objectives
COST is one of many European financial instruments to contribute to the build-up of the European Research Area. COST now involves 36 countries (35 Member States and one cooperating state). COST helps co-operation in common research projects that themselves are funded by national means. COST's projects (called "COST Actions") cover basic and pre-competitive research as well as activities of public utility. The support will cover the costs of networking activities such as meetings (e.g. travel, subsistence, local organiser support), conferences, workshops, short-term scientific exchanges, training schools, publications and dissemination activities. COST does not fund the research itself. In essence COST funds researchers' mobility. In this role COST complements European Commission's Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development.
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“Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)