# COST Action proposal "Making Agent-Based Modelling Policy-Ready"

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cost-action-proposal-making-agent-based-modelling-policy-ready/87035>\
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**Created:** [September 10, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cost-action-proposal-making-agent-based-modelling-policy-ready/87035 "2022-09-10T11:12:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![bkamins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bkamins/32/208538_2.png) [@bkamins](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bkamins)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cost-action-proposal-making-agent-based-modelling-policy-ready/87035/1 "2022-09-10T11:12:20Z")

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Hi,

This message is relevant for researchers in EU countries or affiliated countries supported by [European Cooperation in Science and Technology](https://www.cost.eu/).

Soon a COST Action proposal “Making Agent-Based Modelling Policy-Ready” (MAMP) will be submitted.

At the moment, we are working on the proposal. Working Groups structuring the COST Action MAMP are:

- WG1. Developing theory on the relationships between technological innovation, policy and society.
- WG2. Sharing experiences with policy modelling using agent-based models.
- WG3. Hot topics in public policy research and their modelling requirements.
- WG4. Cocreating networks for inclusive policy design.
- WG5. Rigorous approaches to agent-based modelling lifecycle (design, implementation, calibration, validation, experimentation and interpretation).
- WG6. Preparing and linking data for use in simulations, visualizing and analysing simulation results.

I plan Julia language to be a part of this call (especially in WG5).

COST Actions fund certain expenses in the frame of activities regarding to networking, such as: **meetings, training schools, mobility of researchers and innovators, presentations at conferences organised by third parties, dissemination and communication products,** among others. You can find detailed information in the [COST Applicants’ Guidelines](https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2022/04/104-21-REV-COST-COST_Open_Call_Applicants_guidelines_SESA.pdf), section 2.6.5. (“Financial support to COST Actions: networking activities and other expenses”) of .

Please feel free to contact me in case you would be interested to join the proposal.

Best,  
Bogumił

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Fisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/christopher_fisher/32/26132_2.png) [@Christopher\_Fisher](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Christopher_Fisher)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cost-action-proposal-making-agent-based-modelling-policy-ready/87035/2 "2022-09-10T12:00:34Z")

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I wonder if this would be of interest to the developers of [Agents.jl](https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/Agents.jl)