COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Information Day
Auditório do Pavilhão do Conhecimento
22 April 2014
Programme
14.00 - Registration
14.30 - Welcome of the participants
Tribute to Fernanda Sepúlveda, Portuguese delegate to the COST Committee of
Senior Officials and COST National Coordinator, from 1971 to 2013
Speaker: Miguel Seabra, President of the Foundation for Science and
Technology
14.45 – COST: a brief history, mission, objectives
Paula Elyseu Mesquita, COST National Coordinator, Portugal
15.00 - COST in Horizon 2020
Ángeles Rodríguez-Peña – President of the COST Committee of Senior Officials
15.15 - How COST works and the added value of participation in COST Actions
Mafalda Quintas - COST Office
15.30 - Coffee-break
16.00 - How to submit and coordinate a COST Action
Luís Fontes, Action Chair
16.15 – The evaluation of COST proposals
Gustavo Cardoso - Delegate to a Domain Committee
16:30 – The added-value of participation in a COST Action
Rute Costa, Management Committee Delegate
16:45 – Debate
Chair: Joana Pacheco Palha, COST Senior Official, Portugal
17:30 – End of session