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Sub-committees
The ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (COST)
Sub-committees
Sub-Committees are established in all the major programme areas of the ASEAN COST.
They are responsible for the management, coordination, evaluation and implementation
of regional programmes and projects. The Sub-Committees are also entrusted to
review ongoing projects under their purview and assess the effectiveness and impact
of their projects in strengthening the regional S&T capabilities. Currently, the
ASEAN COST has the following nine Sub-Committees:
Each Sub-Committee identifies its priority areas within every planning period.
The functions of the Sub-Committees are:
- To plan, implement and monitor regional projects;
- To generate and promote development of expertise and human resource;
- To facilitate and accelerate the transfer of scientific development and technologies;
- To promote collaborative activities with relevant international organizations;
- To suggest and establish suitable programme implementation bodies;
- To advise ASEAN COST on any other relevant matters; and
- To assist in obtaining financial support and to seek funding sources.
From time to time, the Sub-Committees may also form Project Management Committees
(PMC) to take charge of the management and implementation of specific projects.
The PMCs are responsible for the successful execution and delivery of outputs
of projects entrusted to them.
Other subsidiary bodies of the COST. The COST has established two Advisory
Bodies to make policy recommendations to the COST on specific programmes.
The Advisory Body of the ASEAN Science Fund (ABASF) assists COST in management
of the ASEAN Science Fund,
including setting up mechanisms for the review of project proposals for funding
from the ASEAN Science Fund. The Advisory Body on the ASEAN Plan of Action on
Science and Technology (ABAPAST) monitors the progress of the Sub-Committees in
implementing the ASEAN Plan of Action on Science and Technology and renders policy
advice on three types of issues:
- intra-ASEAN matters;
- external relations; and
- science and society, including public awareness.
The Organizational Structure of the COST
External relations of the COST. To oversee collaboration with Dialogue
Partners, the COST joins their counterparts in Dialogue Partners of the ASEAN
to form a Working Group. Currently, the following Working Groups have been formalized:
- ASEAN-China Joint Science and Technology Committee (JSTC)
- ASEAN-EC Joint Cooperation Committee Sub-Committee on Science and
Technology
- ASEAN-India Working Group on Science and Technology
- ASEAN-Russia Working Group on Science and Technology
- ASEAN COST+3 Cooperation in Science and Technology
The COST also initiated consultations in 2001 with China, Japan and the Republic
of Korea on the establishment of an ASEAN+ 3 Cooperation in Science & Technology
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