COST was a partner of the fourth European Innovation Summit held at the European Parliament in Brussels under the motto ‘Building bridges – Creating Synergies’.
Dr Ángeles Rodríguez-Peña, COST CSO President, spoke at the Summit about ‘The Role of Science & Technology in Support of Innovation’ and stresses the importance of the human connection to achieve innovation in this highlight video.
Climate fingerprints and footprints
How do we identify solar signals in climate data? Two scientists (Kristoffer Rypdal from the University of Tromsø, Norway, and Yoav Yair, from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel) discuss this topic. This movie was produced by COST action TOSCA (Towards a more complete assessment of the impact of solar variability on climate), a multidisciplinary European network of scientists from 20 countries whose objective is to provide a better understanding of the hotly debated role of the Sun in climate change. For more information, and more movies, see http://www.tosca-cost.eu
Prof Milica Pavkov Hrvojevic, from the Faculty of Sciences of Novi Sad in Serbia, talks about how COST Actions help to create a network between different research fields and institutions.
Ice-cold without the Sun
What would happen is the Sun were to fade away? Two scientists (Eija Tanskanen, from the Finnish Meteorological Institute, in Helsinki, Finland, and Yoav Yair, from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel) discuss this topic. This movie was produced by COST action TOSCA (Towards a more complete assessment of the impact of solar variability on climate), a multidisciplinary European network of scientists from 20 countries whose objective is to provide a better understanding of the hotly debated role of the Sun in climate change. For more information, and more movies, see http://www.tosca-cost.eu
COST Science Night 2013 provided European policymakers and representatives of the EU institutions, the scientific community and the press the opportunity to meet researchers leading selected COST science and technology research networks called Actions. The Actions showcased their cutting-edge work in a number of scientific fields and explained how such pan-European science and technology networks supported by COST contribute to addressing key global scientific and societal challenges.
Quantitative Wood Anatomy: From Sample to Data for Environmental Research
Quantitative wood anatomy investigates relationships between plant growth, functioning and environment, and typically also how these relationships change over time. It is a challenging multi-step approach, in which deficiencies in one step propagate to the following steps with negative consequences for data quality. This film gives and overview of how to quantify anatomical features in digital images, presents guidelines and pitfalls, and introduces different anatomical metrics used for environmental research.
This is the third COST-STReESS instruction film, launched by the Dendroclimatology group, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Switzerland) in cooperation with the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF), University of Padova (Italy), the Department of Wood Science and Technology, University of Ljubliana (Slovenia), and the Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University (Netherlands).
The script for this film was written by Georg von Arx (Dendroclimatology group, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL).
The film is produced by Hans Reijnen of R Media in association with the COST Action STReESS
Electroporation - Damijan Miklavcic - TEDxLjubljana
Prof Damijan Miklavcic’s talk at TEDx in Ljubljana, an independently organised TED event.