The COST Action’s common work is organised by a Managing Committee (MC) as its core group, with organisational tasks and WGs. The MC coordinates activities between WGs, oversees project management and administration, coordinates reports on progress and supervises the appropriate allocation of COST funding.

The MC pursues the following specific management tasks and activities:

• Develop and maintain the COST Action website and blog
• Organize COST Action meetings and internal communication
• Approve new participants/WGs and monitor network and WG membership to ensure balanced representation
• Monitor and revise COST Action objectives, WG tasks and deliverables
• Organize mentoring sessions for early-career scholars
• Develop procedures to counter ostracism or bullying among network members/countries
• Produce interim and final financial achievement reports (quarters 4, 8, 12 and 16)
• Manage calls for papers and organise short-term scientific missions (up to four per year, at different institutions).

In line with COST guidelines, the MC consists of delegates from all member countries represented in the core group of grant holders. The MCs supervises networking and communication within the WGs and ensures research coordination across the subject-specific WGs. Members from NNCs and IPCs are elected by the network members to take part in the MC meetings with a monitoring function to ensure the representation of interests of members from countries that are not EU COST Members. A grant administrator will be appointed by the grant holders to support the overall administration of the COST Action. Another grant holder will be elected by the MC to oversee the financial and administrative management and coordination tasks of the COST Action. The MC will organise plenary sessions for all members at least twice a year.