Participating Countries Map

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey

*Current COST Member Countries targeted by the COST inclusiveness Policy: EU 13 (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia), EU candidate countries (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Turkey) and potential EU candidate countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina). In addition, to comply with the EC criteria for ‘Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation’, Portugal and Luxemburg are included.

Israel

*Cooperating State is any country that has been approved by the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) to participate in COST and its governance but has no voting rights within the CSO. 

Australia, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United States of America

*All those countries that are neither COST Member Countries / Cooperating State nor are they COST NNC.

Georgia, Jordan, Tunisia, Ukraine

*NNC are the countries approved by the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) to benefit from dedicated support for the integration of their researchers in COST activities.

Joint Research Center (JRC)

*International Organisation is any organisation with a European or international membership, scope or presence, with its own legal personality, governed by international public law or recognized to have value in promoting scientific and technological cooperation, which should contribute to the fulfillment of the COST Mission.