{"id":325,"date":"2010-07-22T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T14:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2010-07-22T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T14:24:54","slug":"new-assignment-in-scientific-and-technological-cooperation-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miguelpdl.com\/weblog\/new-assignment-in-scientific-and-technological-cooperation-across-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"New assignment in scientific and technological cooperation across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently returned from beautiful Tallinn where the weather was hot and the city was beautiful. I was in Estonia for two items one was the COST-ICT<\/a> Annual Progress Conference and the other was the COST-ICT domain committee meeting.
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\nBefore getting into the conference and meetings a little info on COST. Set up to run as an intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in science and technology, it allows for the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. COST does not fund research itself but provides a platform for European scientists to cooperate on a particular project and exchange expertise. These projects are called “Actions”.
\nA slide set overview of COST can be seen at this link [pdf]<\/a>.
\nMy most recent experience of a COST action has been throught the ICT Action IC0703 TMA<\/a>. The purpose of TMA is to host a community of researchers around the area of data traffic monitoring and analysis particularly looking at the theory, techniques, tools and applications for future networks. I have seen this community in full effect when collecting and identifying network traffic trace collections<\/a>. Also Alan Davy has benefited from participating in a short-term scientific mission (STSM)<\/a> in October 2009.
\nAnyway back to the Annual Progress Conference and from it I learned about a much broader community of projects such as<\/p>\n