Publications

The 2025 Annual Report presents a year marked by growth, wide participation and clear impact for COST.

This edition brings together the key highlights of the year, combining activities and figures that illustrate how COST’s influence continues to expand.

The report’s success stories show how collaboration leads to real results, from advancing research and supporting careers to delivering innovation and benefits for society. In this context, COST Actions help transform scattered knowledge into shared resources, contribute to European priorities and prepare the ground for future funding opportunities. As a result, their impact spans a wide range of fields, demonstrating that by bringing people together, COST creates lasting networks, tools and solutions that continue well beyond the lifetime of each project.

We introduce MPIF (Material Preparation Information File), a standardized format for recording materials synthesis data for MOFs and related materials. It captures detailed experimental procedures and conditions in a structured, machine-readable format, enabling consistent reporting of synthesis workflows. This improves reproducibility, transparency, and data sharing across laboratories. By establishing a common standard for synthesis reporting, MPIF aims to transform how the MOF community records, shares, and analyzes synthesis data, enabling large-scale data-driven discovery and accelerating progress toward automated and AI-assisted materials research.

Explore key facts and figures from COST’s 41 member countries and one cooperating member.

The factsheets illustrate each country’s participation in COST Actions and networking activities, as well as the number of leadership roles held and the budget received. The data is also grouped by age and gender.

Read success stories involving researchers from the country and find out what they have to say.

Created within COST Action BeSafeBeeHoney (CA22105), this Recipe Book celebrates honey as a natural treasure and a versatile ingredient used in kitchens around the world. It brings together honey-based recipes shared by our network, alongside cultural stories that highlight how honey connects food, tradition, and sustainability.

Share your dish using #BeeHoneyHoliday (and tag @BeSafeBeeHoney on social media): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gh7kJwiXdIdrWZDWkeJxR2TzguTlRZKg/view

Contact person for further information:

BeSafeBeeHoney Communication Team | Email: besafebeehoney@gmail.com

Science Communication Coordinator | Email: marta.leite@iniav.pt

This publication presents a new hybrid Gaussian processes approach to estimate gross primary production (GPP)—the amount of carbon plants fix through photosynthesis—at high spatial resolution using Sentinel-2 reflectance data. By combining physical knowledge with data-driven modelling, the method produces more accurate and spatially detailed GPP maps, particularly in complex forest and vegetation landscapes. The results highlight the approach’s strong potential for improving carbon cycle assessments and supporting climate- and ecosystem-related monitoring efforts.

This review highlights how in situ and operando spectroscopic and scattering techniques are advancing our understanding of reticular materials such as MOFs and COFs. By probing these porous frameworks under working conditions, researchers can track active sites, reaction intermediates, and structural dynamics during catalysis, gas adsorption, and photochemical processes. The article surveys recent progress across characterization methods, discusses how these insights inform synthesis and design, and points to opportunities for developing more efficient materials for energy and environmental applications.

Guidance for researchers and innovators in Near Neighbour Countries and Third/International Partner Countries. This publication explains how to get involved in COST Actions and what opportunities are available.

The COST corporate publication ‘Growing ideas through networks’ explains the COST Programme and COST Actions, including how they operate, who they are for, and how to propose or join an Action.

The book emerges from COST Action COREnet, a European research network initiated in 2021 that connects theory and practice in the field of migration and religious diversity. Over the course of several years, COREnet scholars from diverse disciplines and cultural contexts engaged in collaborative research, dialogical formats, and innovative methodologies to critically analyse how narratives influence migration experiences and to explore the role of religion and secular worldviews in these processes.

One of the most innovative aspects of the volume is its methodological emphasis on listening to the voices of migrants themselves. To facilitate this, the network developed and implemented the concept of “narrative cafés.” These dialogical spaces allowed migrants to share their personal stories in a supportive, interactive environment, thereby highlighting their lived experiences beyond abstract political or academic debates.

By bridging theoretical frameworks and practical concerns, Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration offers scholars, policymakers, and practitioners critical tools for engaging migration in ways that are both academically rigorous and socially constructive.

The volume will be of particular interest to researchers in theology, sociology, philosophy, and education, as well as policymakers and organisations working in the fields of migration, integration, and interreligious dialogue.