News

6 March 2026 - Call for grant applications

We have opened the call to apply for Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI) conference grants, Inclusiveness Target Country (ITC) conference grants, and for Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) grants. See the grants page for details on how to apply.

2 March 2026 - WG3 kick-off meeting

Working group 3 on Automated Preprocessing Pipelines will have its online kick-off meeting on Tuesday 17 March, at 14:00-15:00 CET. The zoom link for the meeting was posted on the WG3 mailing list.

23 February 2026 - WG1 and WG4 kick-off meetings

Working group 1 on Quality Assessment and Quality Control will have its first online kick-off meeting on Tuesday 3 March, at 14:00-15:00 CET.

Working group 4 on Ethics, Practices, and Regulations will have its first online kick-off meeting on Wednesday, 4 March at 14:00-15:00 (CET).

We hope that many of you will join. The locations for both meetings have been announced through the respective mailing lists. If you signed up and have been accepted for one of the working groups, you should automatically have been added to the corresponding mailing lists and received the announcement. If you have any questions, please contact the WG leads.

6 February 2026 - new logo

We have a new logo, please see the style guide for further details.

30 September 2025 - MC1 meeting

The first management committee (MC) meeting was hosted on 30 September 2025 at the COST headquarters in Brussels and attended by 21 members, representing 17 countries. The COST action was explained to all members by Wioleta Walentowska (Science Officer) and Flavya Ricci (Administrative Officer), including the networking tools and financial support. We discussed the initial actions to be undertaken by the working groups. Furthermore, the action chair, vice chair and others of the core team were selected and voted into position, and the budget for the first year was agreed upon.

20 May 2025 - INDoS approved

We are happy that our proposal Improving Neuroimaging Data for Sharing (INDoS) was approved by the COST Committee of Senior Officials.