Shenkar faculty are active participants of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), which is a funding organization for the creation of research networks.

Rebeka Vital, senior lecturer at the Department of Interior Building and Environmental Design is a science dissemination officer in COST Action on Archaeological Practices and Knowledge Work in the Digital Environment and participant in another three actions (on Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age; Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City; and Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings).

Ayelet Karmon, head of the CIRTex Center for Textile Research in Israel, and senior lecturer in the master's degree program in design and the Department of Interior Building and Environmental Design, is the Israel management committee member for the COST Action entitled European Network to Connect Research and Innovation Efforts on Advanced Smart Textiles.

Dr. Dan Lewitus, faculty member and senior lecturer in the Department of Plastics Engineering is a participant in five COST Actions. He is the Israel Management Committee Member for the COST Actions entitled: European network of multidisciplinary research to improve the urinary stents; European network for algal-bioproducts (EUALGAE); Improved Protection of Medical Devices Against Infection (IPROMEDAI); New Generation Biomimetic and Customized Implants for Bone Engineering; and member committee substitute for – Electrospun nano-fibres for bio inspired composite materials and innovative industrial applications.

"COST is bottom up, this means that researchers can create a network (COST Action) – based on their own research interests and ideas – by submitting a proposal to the COST Open Call. The proposal can be in any science field. COST Actions are highly interdisciplinary and open. It is possible to join ongoing Actions, which therefore keep expanding over the funding period of four years. They are multi-stakeholder, often involving the private sector, policymakers as well as civil society." – as stated on the official website of COST.