Not enough ...We are a good...

Not enough ... We are a good team with several expertise connected to the climate change: extreme events, philosophy, agronomy, policy, forestry, anthropology, ecology, hydro/biology. The group is shaping very well, but this is not enough for applying to a COST call. The COST aims to create a network between countries (2 representatives from each country) and the initiators must come at least from 5 different EU countries. As I see we are mostly Italian, counting the represented countries we are exactly 6 (Italy, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Czech) but this is not enough. COST is really competitive and even for a perfect and promising proposal the small number of interested countries could be considered as a weakness by the evaluators. If we wanna try for a COST there are 2 main points to be addressed: - increasing the number of participating countries - finding common goals for all the fields ... remind that COST funds networking and training and not the research activity! So for being funded we must find common reasons for creating a network (and the common reason can´t be "just" meeting for writing a proposal) In case we are looking for something different (i.e. MC ITN or cooperation), then it is "easier" since we are talking about research and the climate change id obviously the connection. Riccardo