Ministerial Conferences
COST was set up by a Ministerial Conference on 22 and 23 November 1971 bringing together ministers responsible for research and technology from 19 countries and laying the foundations for scientific and technical cooperation at European level.
Since 1971 four more conferences at Ministerial level have taken place to provide political guidance for COST: in Vienna 1991 , Prague 1997 , Dubrovnik 2003 [DE][EN][FR] and Palma de Mallorca 2010.