The COST Association has announced that cooperation with Hungarian legal entities, operated by public interest trust foundations, will be suspended.
Following a Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506 of 15 December 2022, as of 4 July 2023 and until further notice:
- Participation and eligibility of COST Action participants affiliated to the Hungarian legal entities affected by the Council Decision shall be suspended for all COST Actions and COST activities. Therefore, these COST Action participants shall not be invited to participate in any type of Action activities.
- Management Committee and Working Group participants affiliated to Hungarian legal entities affected by the Council Decision are suspended from this role. In case Actions receive new MC or WG membership applications from the affected Hungarian legal entities, such requests cannot be approved.
- No Action activity is allowed to take place in any of the affected Hungarian institutions.
- Participants from the affected entities shall not be invited or reimbursed for attending any Action activity.
This suspension follows similar restrictions placed on these Hungarian entities under Horizon Europe.
Action Chairs, Grant Holders and WG members concerned are being informed directly by the COST Association.