Publications

The main objective of the Action was to improve the predictive potential of scientific information gathered within the framework of development of new, efficacious and safe drugs, as well as sustainable industrial chemicals. Some form of modelling is performed during any of the “steps” of new drug development. By necessity, scientists active in any of these “steps” have some contact with others, active in “neighbour steps”. However, as often demonstrated in practice, valuable information is not necessarily available for scientists active in “steps” that are further apart. For industrial chemicals, “empirically fixed safety factors” are presently used to scale up from animal data to humans.
This approach is not scientifically well based and does not take into consideration all information which is available. In this context, Action COST B15 provided a powerful tool to improve communication between scientists from Academia, the Industry and Governmental Entities.

Ever since GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) extended the accessibility of mobile phones to almost every member of our society, the drive for wireless communications has been relentless. This has, however, put enormous pressure on the provision of the essential resource needed for wireless information exchange – the radio spectrum. As a result, the radio spectrum – initially a wireless facilitator – has now become a bottleneck. Ironically, it is this same spectrum which often inhibits the innovation of new services and impacts on the outreach, capacity and quality of service of current wireless communications systems.

Thanks to COST Action 724, space weather now has a European definition: Space weather is the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. The associated discipline aims, through obversation, monitoring, analysis and modeling, at understanding and predicting the state of the Sun, the interplanetary and planetary environments, and the solar and non-solar driven perturbations that affect them, and also at forecasting and nowcasting the potential impacts on biological and technological systems.