Structure
Management committee
The action had a management committee (MC), whose role was to oversee progress on all objectives and make recommendations for future action. The MC also oversaw the development of research bids and policy recommendations emerging from the action. Members of the MC are detailed here.
Steering group
The COST action steering group ensured that all action objectives were met. It set the agenda for the MC meetings and implemented MC policy decisions. It oversaw the project evaluation, website and dissemination plans. Its membership was as follows:
Chair: Jackie Marsh, UK
Vice Chair: Ola Erstad, Norway
Co-chair WG1: Kristiina Kumpulainen, Finland
Co-chair WG1: Julia Gillen, UK
Co-chair WG2: Stavroula Kontovourki, Cyprus
Co-chair WG2: Eufimia Tafa, Greece
Co-chair WG3: Adriana Bus, Netherlands
Co-chair WG3: Natalia Kucirkova, Slovakia/UK
Co-chair WG4: Julian Sefton-Green, UK
Co-chair WG4: Giovanna Mascheroni, Italy
Co-chair WG5: Rosie Flewitt, UK
Co-chair WG5: David Poveda, Spain
Editorial co-manager: Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer, Germany
Editorial co-manager: Iris Susana Pires Pereira, Portugal
Co-training schools manager: Reijo Kupiainen, Finland
Co-training schools manager: Claudia Van Kruistum, Netherlands
Co-STSM manager: László Karvalics, Hungary
Co-STSM manager: Roel Van Steensel, Netherlands
Co-stakeholder manager: Brian O’Neill, Ireland
Co-stakeholder manager: Anca Velicu, Romania
Web and dissemination manager: Bernadette Dwyer, Ireland
Early stage researcher manager: Eithne Kennedy, Ireland
International Advisory Board manager: Kjartan Olafsson, Iceland