1. Impact through networking
What is in it for me?
Katalin Alföldi, policy officer, COST Association
COST Info Day, Bratislava, 07/02/2019

2. Ingredients for networking People Ideas Resources
Research networks connect researchers who are physically separated, to facilitate sharing of expertise and resources, and to exchange valuable skills
What networking means and does it need to network?

3. different networking tools meetings, training schools,
COST offers
different networking tools
meetings,
training schools,
short-term scientific missions (STSMs),
dissemination tool,
conference grants
events to bring COST Actions together with stakeholders (COST Connect)
COST stirs
Network effects – getting into contact with peers
Capacity building – entry point, management skills
What does COST do to allow networking happen?
Next slides to look at the “what is in it for me” at different distance to the time of the OCST activity

4. New interdisciplinary research collaborations
Outputs
New interdisciplinary research collaborations
Peer-reviewed co-created publications,
New research leadership skills and experience for less-connected researchers
Common research proposals for H2020 or other European schemes or for various national grants
What can come out of a COST Action, I can directly benefit from?

5. Approved common research projects on interdisciplinary research
Outcomes
Approved common research projects on interdisciplinary research
Coordination of standards, procedures and methods
New research infrastructures and programs on societal challenges
Career advancement for less-connected researchers
What can come out of a COST Action, my research can mid-term benefit from?

6. Impacts
Scientific: interdisciplinary collaborations leading to breakthrough science, attained
somewhere along the way;
a concrete product or application developed out of an idea;
consolidation of the field, with different players coming to common understandings and collaborations
Societal: bridge the innovation divide and participation gaps and brain circulation in the European Research Area (ERA)
What can come out of a COST Action, my research field can benefit from?

7. Visual representation of COST impact philosophy
Summary of the previously described. Like the black box, you add ideas, resources, people, stir them via the COST activities and you could receive the outputs, outcomes and scientific and societal impact.

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