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Dr. María Moragues Cánovas

Science Officer MPNS

1st MC Meeting of COST Action MP1307

StableNextSol

“Stable Next-Generation Photovoltaics: Unraveling degradation

mechanisms of Organic Solar Cells by complementary characterization

techniques”

Brussels (BE), 20/03/2014

AGENDA

• Welcome

• Adoption of the agenda

• Presentation of the delegates

• Introduction to COST

• Grant System and the Grant Holder

• Status of the COST Action

• Agreement on the internal rules of procedure for the

Management Committee of the COST Action

• Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair

10:00 – 12:30

COST Office

Minutes

AGENDA

• Working plan for the implementation of the MoU

Objectives and working programme

Working method/organisation and management

Distribution of tasks and election of WG leaders

Time-table

Budget plan for the first period

• Approval of IPC participation, if any.

• Place and date of next meeting

• AOB

13:30 – 16:00

MC

Minutes

Presentation of

the delegates

What is COST?

Founded in 1971, COST is the first and widest European

intergovernmental framework for transnational Cooperation in

Science and Technology

For 40 years COST has supported networking of research

activities across all its 36 Member countries and beyond

COST is open to all disciplines and all novel and ground-breaking

S&T ideas, and to all categories of partners where mutual benefit

is real

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COST Mission Statement

COST enables break-through scientific developments leading to

new concepts and products and thereby contributes to strengthen

Europe’s research and innovation capacities

COST Key Principles & Features

Intergovernmental

Pan-European

Open to global cooperation

on the basis of mutual interest

Lean administration

Easy implementation

Highest S&T quality

Action proposals are S&T-

driven (bottom-up)

Transdisciplinarity

Young researchers

Inclusive

Leverage of national

resources

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COST Strengths

All fields of S&T (including interdisciplinary, new and emergent fields)

Any novel and original idea (innovative)

All partners (public and private, big and small)

All career stages (young and senior investigators)

All countries (small and big, leader and follower countries), including

COST Near Neighbour Countries (NNC) and International Partner

Countries (IPC) – fostering international cooperation

COST supports the networking of researchers through science

and technology networks (COST Actions), which are open to:

COST in Figures

“

”30 000 The number of researchers benefiting from COST Actions every year

130 000 The average annual budget of a COST Action (EUR)

250 000 000 The COST budget over the 7 years of FP7 (EUR)

5 billion The amount of national research funding leveraged by COST over 7

years of FP7 (EUR)

• Established by Ministerial Conference of 19 European States in 1971,

Brussels

• From 19 countries to currently 36 COST countries.

• From 7 Actions to over 310 Actions running, networked research

projects

• From 7 Domains in to 9 Domains plus a trans-domain

COST Countries (35+1)

The 28 EU Member States

EU Acceding & Candidate

Countries

former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia

Iceland

Republic of Serbia

Turkey

Other CountriesBosnia and Herzegovina

Norway

Switzerland

COST Cooperating State Israel

300297296294

288259258

251250250250

245243

220215214

204194

181174

165163

149145

139137

115108

9290

8177

7269

4335

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

United KingdomGermany

SpainItaly

FranceBelgiumGreece

SwitzerlandDenmark

NetherlandsPoland

PortugalFinland

SwedenIreland

NorwayAustria

IsraelCzech Republic

HungaryRomaniaSlovenia

SerbiaTurkey

BulgariaCroatia

SlovakiaLithuania

The Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaEstoniaCyprusLatvia

IcelandMalta

LuxembourgBosnia and Herzegovina

Total running Actions 2012:

301

COST Countries participation

Near Neighbour Countries participation

Ukraine (31)

Russia (47)

Algeria (7)

Tunisia (10)

Georgia (6)

Egypt (8)

Morocco (12)

Moldova (2)

Armenia (4)

Lebanon (7)

Belarus (5)

Montenegro (7)

Albania (13) Azerbaijan (4)

COST Countries

NN countries

Jordan (1)

165 Participations in running COST Actions (16 countries) – May 2013

Syria (1)

482 Participations in running Actions (31 countries) – May 2013

International Partner Countries Participation

COST Countries

Japan (12)

Canada (39)

USA (109)

Rep of Korea (3)

India (07)Hong Kong (2)

Brazil (11)

Colombia (2)

China (27)

Mexico (9)

Pakistan (3)

Singapore (3)

UAE (1)

Indonesia (1)

Chile (3) Uruguay (1)

Mauritius (1)

Taiwan (1)

Sudan (1)

Peru (1)

only one Action

Thailand (1)

Namibia (1)

Bangladesh (1)

Costa Rica (1)

Iraq (1)

Saudi Arabia (1)

Argentina (29)

RA CountriesSouth Africa (36)

Australia (112)

New Zealand (62)

Funded through the FP7 ‘Cooperation’ programme

The European Science Foundation (ESF) is COST’s implementing agent

Operated by the COST Office (Brussels)

European

Commission

FP7

ESFCOST

Office

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COST Funding

Until 2014

• Resolution adopted by all the Representatives of the

Governments of the 35 COST Member Countries on 6 September

2013, the ‘COST Association’ was established on 19 September

2013 with the aim of providing the legal entity for the

implementation of COST activities in the near future

• The COST Association is established as an International Non-Profit

Association under Belgian law (AISBL).

COST Association

COST Funding 2014

European

Commission

Horizon 2020

COST

Association

COST and HORIZON 2020

COST will continue to foster scientific and technological

excellence and inclusiveness in Europe, by supporting

bottom-up, open science and technology networks

involving researchers across the continent.

COST is expected to contribute in particular to the ‘Societal

Challenges’ and ‘Spreading Excellence and Widening

Participation’ pillars of the Horizon 2020 strategy.

COST will receive an increased budget compared to the

budget allocated under FP7.

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COST Policies under H2020

Inclusiveness.

Early stage researchers,

ESRs.

Gender balance.

International

cooperation.

SMEs/ industry

participation.

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COST has identified its priorities and developed its policies on:

COST Office

Management

Committee (MC)

Working Groups (WG)

Action

Domain Committees (DCs)

DC Rapporteur

COST Governance

Ministerial Conference

JAF

Committee of Senior Officials (CSO)

Committee of Senior Officials

• Main decision-making and governing body of COST

• Representatives of the 35 COST Member Countries and one Cooperating

State.

• Each COST Member Country appoints up to two representatives to

the CSO, one of whom is the COST National Coordinator (CNC)

• Formulates the general strategy of COST

• Appoints the COST Domain Committees

• Approves the new COST Actions to be launched.

• Approves participation of NNC and IPC

CSO President: Dr Ángeles Rodríguez-Peña

CSO Vice-President: Dr Primož Pristovšek.

• Evaluates proposals for new COST Actions (not in TDP)

• Monitors running COST Actions through Rapporteurs

• Assesses completed COST Actions through Final Assessment

Panels

• Proposes strategic initiatives in its Domain

• Disseminates and highlights COST activities

• Promotes synergies between and among all COST Domains, the

European Commission (EC) and other relevant stakeholders

• Chair of the DC MPNs: Dr Anthony R. Flambard

Domain Committee (DC)

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COST Scientific Domains

• Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences

• Food and Agriculture

• Forests, their Products and Services

• Materials, Physics and Nanosciences

• Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies

• Earth System Science and Environmental Management

• Information and Communication Technologies

• Transport and Urban Development

• Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health

In addition, Trans-Domain Proposals allow for broad, multidisciplinary

proposals to strike across COST’s scientific domains.

Science and Technology Network with a duration of four

years and a minimum participation of five COST Member

Countries, and is organised through a range of

networking tools:

• Meetings (MC, WG)

• Conferences

• Workshops,

• Short-term scientific exchanges

• Training schools,

• Publications & dissemination activities

What is a COST Action?

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Maria

phD

Clémentine

Senior Researcher

John

Consultant

Thorir

Assistant Professor

Ülle

Full Professor

Lech

Post-doc

Zeynep

Industry

representative

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Maria (phD)

1 phD thesis

Clémentine (Senior Researcher)

3 projects

John (Consultant)

4 Projects

Thorir (Assistant Professor)

1 project Hanna (Full Professor)

2 projects

Lech (Post-doc)

1 draft project

Zeynep (Insdustry

representative)

Several on-going projects

Nationally/institutionally funded activities

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Maria (phD)

1 phD thesis

Clémentine (Senior Researcher)

3 projects

John (Consultant)

4 Projects

Thorir (Assistant Professor)

1 project Hanna (Full Professor)

2 projects

Lech (Post-doc)

1 draft project

Zeynep (Insdustry

representative)

Several on-going projects

COST Action

Nationally/institutionally funded activities

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Maria (phD)

1 phD thesis

Clémentine (Senior Researcher)

3 projects

John (Consultant)

4 Projects

Thorir (Assistant Professor)

1 project Hanna (Full Professor)

2 projects

Lech (Post-doc)

1 draft project

Zeynep (Insdustry

representative)

Several on-going projects

COST Action

Nationnally/institutionally funded activities

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

• ‘Institutions’ from COST Member Countries, Near Neighbour Countries

and International Partner Countries, including:

Government Organisations, except Intergovernmental Organisations

Universities and Associated Organisations

Business Enterprises (ranging from SMEs to multinationals)

Private Non-Profit Organisations/NGOs (even if international)

Standards Organisations (even if international)

• European Commission and EU Agencies

• European RTD Organisations, including: CERN, EMBL, ESA, ESO,

ESRF, European XFEL, ILL, EFDA JET;

• International Organisations (i.e. intergovernmental organisations whose

members are countries), excluding European RTD Organisations

• COST countries:

• Membership in a new Action is open to all COST countries within 12

months of Action approval by the CSO.

• After that, MC approval is required

• International Partner Countries (IPC)

• Applicants should directly contact Chair of the Action

• If mutual benefit exists, then several approval steps (SO, MC, DC,

JAF) taking about 6 months

• Near Neighbour Countries (NNC)

• Applicants should directly contact Chair of the Action

• If mutual benefit exists, then several approval steps (SO, MC, DC,

JAF) taking about 6 months

• Top-up (up to 10% of Action budget) based on effective attendance of

approved NNC participants

Joining an Action

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Action Structure

MANAGEMENT

COMMITTEE

(MC)

WG 1 WG 2 WG X

GRANT HOLDER

(GH)

WG 3

COST

OFFICE

Management Committee

Coordination, Implementation, and Management of an Action.

Supervising the appropriate allocation and use of funds.

To achieve the Action’s final objectives.

DECISION MAKING BODY

COMPOSED BY:The MC is composed of delegates nominated by their

respective COST National Coordinator (CNC).

Up to 2 representatives per COST country.

Chair, Vice-Chair, WG leaders, Grant Holder…

MC Observers.

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Management Committee

Minimum once a year in a participating

COST Country.

Typical duration ½ day.

Decisions only valid if at least 2/3 of the

Participating COST Countries are

represented.

Simple majority vote of MC Members

with one vote per Participating COST

Country.

MC decision must be minuted and sent

to the COST Office.

IF WE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE TAKING THE DECISIONS…..

WHAT IS THE PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW?

MC MEETINGS E-VOTE

Initiated and managed by the MC Chair.

All MC members are in the e-mail list.

Vote open (7 days).

Simple majority vote of MC Members

with one vote per Participating COST

Country.

MC decision must be minuted and

should be included in the official MC

minutes of the following MC Meeting.

EXCEPT approval IPC and NNC.

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Management Committee

ACTION STRATEGY as defined in the MoU.

ACTION STRUCTURE:

Election of the Action Chair, Vice-chair, Grant Holder and other relevant COST

Action positions needed to achieve Actions Objectives.

Working Group structure and membership.

ANNUAL WORK & BUDGET PLAN.

DISSEMINATION & EXPLOITATION STRATEGY.

Approval of NEW PARTICIPANTS.

Implement COST Policies

MONITORING & ASSESMENT.

Supervising the appropriate allocation and use of funds.

MAIN TASKS TO BE PERFORMED by the MC

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Management Committee

ACTION CHAIR

ACTION VICE CHAIR

WG LEADERS

GRANT HOLDER

And other horizontal activities

KEY ROLES in order to ORGANISE AND DISTRIBUTE THE WORK

CORE GROUP:

Prepare MC decisions

CORE GROUP MEETINGS

Exception:

WG leaders can be exceptionally MC substitutes in case of serving the

COST mission and Policies.

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WORKING GROUPS

The objectives of Working Groups are to perform the necessary tasks required

for the Action to fulfil its scientific objectives as defined in the MoU.

WG leaders must be MC Members.

Working Group Meetings: Coordinate the research work, production and

exchange of research, prepare reports to MC and have specific agenda and

minutes.

PRODUCTION & EXCHANGE OF RESEARCH

COMPOSED BY: Any researchers from Participating COST Member

Countries.

MC Members, or MC Observers from NNC, IPC, Specific

Organisations.

Every MC Member must join a Working Group and

actively participate as Working Group Member.

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• Working Group Meetings• Coordinate the research work• Prepare reports to MC

• Workshops and Conferences• To serve the scientific Action objectives and acts as a showcase for

the activities of the Action.

• Dissemination Meetings• To showcase an Action at e.g. relevant conference in the field

• Training Schools• Provide intensive training on a subject that contributes to the aim of

the Action• If applicable, offer familiarization with unique equipment or know-

how in one of the laboratories of the Action

COST Science and Technology

Activities

COST Co-Funded Science and

Technology Activities

• Short Term Scientific Missions • all researchers from participating countries, but preference for

Early Stage Researchers (PhD + 8 years), PhD students…

• fostering collaboration, learn a new technique or take measurements using instruments not available in their own institution (excellent mean to produce joint research)

• Dissemination (publications, website and outreach

activities)

• COST Activities from other budget lines• ESR Conference Grant

• R-STSMs

• Monitoring of Actions is carried out via:

• Annual Monitoring Progress Reports

• Attendance of Action meetings by the DC

Rapporteurs assigned to each Action

• Annual Progress Conference

• Annual Progress Conference (APC):

• MC Chairs present Action progress

• MPNS APC 2014: 9-10 September 2014

Monitoring/Evaluation of Actions

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DC Rapporteur ROLE

To evaluate the Actions scientific progress and output in relation to the

objectives defined in the MoU, and to provide updates to the DC and

the COST Office.

• The level of achievement of the Action objectives;

• The Work and Budget Plan implementation against the scientific and/or

technological objectives;

• The effective use of the appropriate COST Networking Tools to

achieve the scientific objectives;

• Reasons and justifications of possible deviations from achieving the

Actions scientific objectives;

• Country balance, gender balance and ESR participation;

• Effective dissemination of scientific and technological outputs and the

generated impact.

Professor Gabriela Carja

Technical University Gh.Asachi of Iasi

Romania

How are COST Actions funded?

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Yearly Grant Agreement

GRANT

HOLDERInstitution that

complies with

COST rules.

COST

OFFICE

MANAGEMENT

COMMITTEE

(MC)

COST Office negotiates and

approves Work and Budget Plan

with MC

COST Office signs GA with GH

INFORMATION Available

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http://www.cost.eu/participate/networking

Materials, Physics & Nanosciences Domain

(MPNS)

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The Domain is home to material science, extending from

conception through to production including characterization,

examination, evaluation, fabrication and development, to actual

application and service, as well as related databases, codes,

standards and inspections.

Also incorporates nanomaterials and nanosciences and the

nanotechnological applications thereof.

It also supports exploratory basic and applied research in physics,

theoretical and experimental, as a key to understanding the laws

governing the behaviour of matter and energy.

MPNS Domain

• 1971 Domain “Materials”; 1997 Domain “Physics” ; 2006 Domain

MPNS = Materials, Physical & Nanosciences became Materials,

Physics & Nanosciences; 2010 Materials, Physics &

Nanosciences

• 32 DC delegates & DC Chair Anthony Flambard (DE, 2010), Vice-

Chair Laurens Katgerman (NL, 2011), BA, LU, MK, SE not

currently represented

• September - 40 running MPNS Actions (includes 6 TD)

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http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/mpns

Advanced Functional Materials

Physics

Nanoalloys

Electrospun Nanofibers

Hybrid organic-inorganic

interfaces

Energy Storage

Bubbles & drops

Flame retardancy

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

Nanocomposites

Smart

Nanotoxicology

Compact stars

Bio-Based

Nanotubes, Nanoparticles,

Nanostructured materials

Green

Inertial Confinement Fusion

String Theory

Quantum Physics

Ion TrapsPolarization

Black Holes

Spectroscopy

Metrology

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12 Actions 13 Actions

MPNs Domain Actions portfolio 2013

COST Office staff for MPNS Domain

Ms Milena Stoyanova (MS)

Administrative Officer (AO)

Tel: +32 (0)2 533 38 49

[email protected]

Dr. Maria Moragues Canovas (MM)

Science Officer (SO)

Tel: +32 (0)2 533 38 14

[email protected]

Ms Tania Gonzalez Ovin (TG)

Administrative Officer (AO)

Tel. +3225333816

[email protected]

MP0901 MP0902 MP0903 MP0904 MP0905 MP1001

MP1002 MP1003 MP1004 MP1005 MP1006 MP1101

MP1102 MP1103 MP1104 MP1105 MP1106 MP1201

MP1202 MP1203 MP1204 MP1205 MP1206 MP1207

MP1209 MP1210 MP1301 MP1302 MP1303, MP1304,

MP1305, MP1306, MP1307, MP1308.

MP0901 MP0902 MP0903 MP0904 MP0905 MP1001

MP1002 MP1003 MP1004 MP1005 MP1006 MP1102

MP1103 MP1104 MP1201 MP1204 MP1205 MP1207

MP1209 MP1210 MP1301 MP1302 MP1303, MP1304,

MP1305, MP1306, MP1307, MP1308.

MP1101 MP1105 MP1106 MP1202 MP1203 MP1206

Objective: Support the scientific research for the development of a unified

picture of flowing matter.

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MP1305 Flowing matter

• WG1 Experimental techniques

• WG2 Numerical techniques

• WG3 Analytical techniques

• WG4 Applications, dissemination and outreach

Proponent: Prof. dr. Federico Toschi <[email protected]>

• Task 1 Complex fluids

• Task 2 Active matter

• Task 3 Complex flows

Complexfluids

Ac vema er

Complexflows

• Granularmaterials,glassesanddensesuspensionsofsolidpar cles

• So par cledispersions(microgels,emulsions,foams,vesicles,biologicalcells)

• Polymersolu ons,molecularaggregatesandhydrogels

• Biological:plankton,bacteria,flo

c

k s

• Ar ficial:januspar cles

• Newtonianandnon-Newtonianchao cflows

• Turbulence

Flowingma er

Interested Countries : 13

NL, BE, BG, DE, DK, ES, FR, IE, IS, IT, PT, SI, UK

Objective: To gather theory activities in the field of spectroscopy to supply outstanding high

level and up-to-date support for demanding and sophisticated spectroscopy experiments

using advanced large facility or laboratory radiation sources performed within academic as

well as industrial fundamental and applied research.

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MP1306 MODERN TOOLS FOR SPECTROSCOPY ON ADVANCED

MATERIALS: A EUROPEAN MODELLING PLATFORM

• WG1 Correlation ground and excited electronic state

• WG2 Spectroscopy description and implementation

• WG3 Time-resolution femtoseconds spectroscopy

• WG4 Platform integration of codes and cloud facility

• WG5 Experiment test and push theoretical models

Proponent: Hubert Ebert <[email protected]

muenchen.de>

Interested Countries : 14

AT, CZ, CH, ES, FR, HU, IT, NL, PL, RO, SE, SI, UK

Proposer : DE

NON-COST : JP

Objective: Create a network of laboratories with different and complementary

analytical techniques to study and understand the degradation in state-of-the-art

Solar Cells to foster the Next-Generation of Organic Photovoltaics..

MP1307 Stable Next-Generation Photovoltaics: Unraveling Degradation Mechanisms of Organic Solar Cells

by Complementary Characterization Techniques

Proponent: Monica Lira-Cantu <[email protected]>

• WG1 Technology Monitoring

• WG2 Solar cells and test structure fabrication

• WG3 Solar cell and test structure degradation

• WG4 Non-destructive analysis

• WG5 Destructive analysis

• WG6 New Device Engineering

Countries : 19

ES, AT, BE, CH, CY, DE,

DK, EL, ES, FI, FR, IL,

IT, LT, NL, PL, PT, SE,

TR, UK

*NON-COST : RU,

US, CN

Objective: to network nationally-funded and EU-funded researches on metal

oxides and on their applications in the fields of nanolectronicis,

microactuation/microsensing and macroelectronics.

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MP1308 TO-BE:

Towards oxide-based electronics

• WG1 Management

• WG2 Fundamental Understanding

• WG3 Control Growth

• WG4 Towards Applications

Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio [email protected]

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Dr Maria Moragues Canovas

MPNS Science Officer

[email protected]

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