The interim statistics for the recently closed 2024 application round for the COST actions are now available.
The current round of applications recorded the highest number of proposals ever submitted in response to a COST Open Call. Entities from 41 COST member countries submitted as the main proposers. In total, over 35000 main and secondary proposers were involved in proposals for this call. This represents an increase of 63% compared to the previous call.
Submitted proposals showed high interdisciplinarity, with 53% of proposals having two or more main fields of science.
UK entities submitted the second-highest number of applications as the main proposer, behind Italy.