Forestry, the Mediterranean, Women: a networking perspective Dr Ángeles Rodríguez-Peña President of the COST Committee of Senior Officials Women Making a Difference, Tunis, 14 June 2012 COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme ESF provides the COST Office through a European Commission contract
What is COST? COST is the widest and longest-running intergovernmental framework for pan-european Cooperation in Science and Technology. For over 40 years, COST has supported networking of S&T activities across all its member countries (36 today) and beyond. COST is open to all disciplines, to all novel and ground-breaking S&T ideas, to all categories of partners, and to the world for real mutual benefit. 2
What is COST s Mission? COST enables breakthrough scientific developments leading to new concepts and products, thus strengthening Europe s research and innovation capacity. 3
What are COST s Principles? Highest S&T Quality S&T-driven (bottom-up) Transdisciplinarity Young researchers Gender-balance Sharing knowledge Inclusive Leverage 4
COST in Figures Established in 1971 19 founding COST countries now 35 member countries + 1 cooperating state 4 reciprocal agreements with 'Non- COST Countries' 250 M EUR received from FP7 5
COST Action At least 5 countries Expanding networks Average 20 countries Across 9 Domains or interdisciplinary Obtains funds for networking research activities 6
COST Countries The 27 EU Member States EU Acceding & Candidate Countries Croatia Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Iceland Turkey Other Countries Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic of Serbia Norway Switzerland COST Cooperating States Israel 7
Near Neighbour Countries participation (12/2011) Belarus (7) Russia (42) Moldova (3) Ukraine (28) Georgia (3) Montenegro (2) Albania (8) Morocco (7) COST Countries Tunisia (6) Armenia (5) Azerbaijan (2) Lebanon (6) Palestinian Auth. (1) NN countries only one Action Algeria (1) Egypt (5) 12
Near Neighbour Countries COST welcomes the participation of researchers from non-cost 'Near Neighbour Countries', through funding to participate in COST Action activities Balkan countries Albania Montenegro 9
Near Neighbour Countries Mediterranean countries Algeria Egypt Lebanon Libya Morocco The Palestinian Authority Syria Tunisia 10
Near Neighbour Countries Eastern European countries Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Moldova Russia Ukraine 11
COST Domain for Forests, their Products and Services (FPS) Aims to ensure a sustainable provision of forest products and services 12
COST Actions in FPS wood and wood products, water and soil protection, climate regulation, bioenergy, rural development, recreation and public health, habitats for wildlife, landscape diversity, carbon sinks and reservoirs. 13
Gender balance policy COST promotes Early Stage Researchers and gender balance: The COST Action will respect an appropriate gender balance in all its activities and the Management Committee (MC) will place this as a standard item on all its MC agendas. The Action will also be committed to considerably involve early-stage researchers. 14
Open Call 2006-2010 female representation in % All Domains FPS Pre-proposals (1st stage) led by women Full proposals (2nd stage) led by women 26% 23% 23% 41% 15
Women leadership in FPS STReESS - Studying Tree Responses to extreme Events: a SynthesiS - COST Action FP1106 New possibilities for print media and packaging - combining print with digital - COST Action FP1104 Determining Invasiveness And Risk Of Dothistroma (DIAROD)- COST Action FP1102 Improving Data and Information on the Potential Supply of Wood Resources: A European Approach from Multisource National Forest Inventories (USEWOOD) - COST Action FP1001 16
Women leadership in FPS Biosafety of forest transgenic trees: improving the scientific basis for safe tree development and implementation of EU policy directives - COST Action FP0905 Climate Change and Forest Mitigation and Adaptation in a Polluted Environment - COST Action FP0903 Experimental and Computational Micro- Characterisation Techniques in Wood Mechanics - COST Action FP0802 17
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Thank you. https://www.facebook.com/cost.programme http://www.youtube.com/costoffice http://twitter.com/costoffice http://linkd.in/costgroup Dr Ángeles Rodríguez Peña President of the COST Committee of Senior Officials c/o COST Office Avenue Louise 149 1050 Brussels, Belgium T: +32 494 52 40 94 F: +32 (0)2 533 3890 president@cost.eu www.cost.eu/president