Author(s)

Franck Charmaison & Leo Verhoef

Abstract

Research can no longer be seen as a national task alone. Cooperation between countries and between researchers of different countries becomes more and more important. The choice for the right platform is extremely important for dissemination of results and to learn from each other. Congresses as the STREMAH offer such a platform. Other gremia such as COST also brings researchers together on topics of importance. Special for COST is the bottom-up approach for European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research which is an interesting one. 1 Mission Founded in 1971, COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Co- operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research, allowing the co- ordination of nationally funded research on a Europ

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