Next to the well-established six main CENIDE research areas with great results and ongoing coordinated third-party funded projects, new ideas and cooperation activities will be the future of CENIDE. During last year´s CENIDE summer party, potentially new research topics were suggested and first ideas were exchanged. The focus of this year´s CENIDE Conference is to follow up these ideas and discuss the topics in more detail in parallel workshops. And of course, there will be enough time for personal exchange and communication as well as networking with other CENIDE members.