According to the results of young graduate students research (participants of the CERES program, the Faculty of Transport Engineering)there where prepared two publications in the journal Metallurgical and Mining Industry, which is included in the international databases Index Copernicus, eLibrary, Scientific Indexing Services, UlrichsWEB, Academic Resource Index «ResearchBib», WorldCat, Eurasian Scientific Journal Index, International Innovative Journal Impact Factor. The articles present the research results with the participation of young scientists on the regulation of road structures water-thermal regime.

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National meeting was held at National Transport University from October 16 to 18, 2017. Representatives from different countries and universities were gathered at the roundtable. The meeting was attended by participants from Slovakia (University of Žilina), Germany (University of Paderborn), and Ukraine (National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya National Technical University, National Transport University, Radiy: Research and Production Corp.). They were welcomed by the rector of National Transport University, Prof. Mikolay Dmytrychenko, and the vice-rector for scientific work, Prof. Mikolay Dmytriev. In their welcome speech, the rector and vice-rector underlined importance of projects as CERES for universities in Ukraine and thanked to all participants for preparing the project and for their active involvement in solving a lot of questions that arose during the project. At the meeting, participants reported on the work that was carried out during the reporting period, presented reports and discussed the operation and using of the CERES Portal for target groups of young scientists, university lecturers and industrial enterprises. Several opinions on the further development and operation of the CERES Journal and site for young scientists were also discussed. All project partners commended the work and underlined the need for further cooperation. External experts were actively involved in the meeting. They were made familiar with the performed work and reports about the achieved results, and they provided an independent assessment of the work of the Ukrainian team in the frame of the CERES project. They expressed satisfaction with the outputs of the project and they underlined that the cooperation that began by this project between educational and industrial institutions from Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Germany should be further developed and deepened after the end of the project. This agreed with opinion of other participants of the meeting. The second day of the meeting began with an excursion to the industrial partner of NTU, which is Brovary Road Construction Department No. 50. The guests were acquainted with the process of repairing the real object of the north-eastern bypass of the city of Kiev road P-03. Participants were able to see the birth of a new high-qualityroad from the preparatory works (marking with the help of a spacecraft) to the direct work of construction machinery. Modern road vehicles made arrangement of layers of the basis of the road construction and sealing them in accordance with all the rules and norms. The participants of the meeting from Brovary Road Construction Department No. 50 stressed the importance of involving young people in scientific development, which would be an impetus for the introduction of innovative technologies at every stage of production process of their company. Other participants completely agreed with these words. The reports and the results of fruitful cooperation of 16 participants of the CERES project, 8 external experts and 6 participants of the TEMPUS projects FKTBUM and EcoBRU were presented in this meeting. They liked the CERES projects and appreciated the work that was done during the project. Participants from other TEMPUS projects saw a big potential in the CERES Portal that was developed during the project and had several interesting comments. They also expressed possible interest to publish results of works of young scientists from their teams in CERES Journal.

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Workshop on CERES: Modern Experience on Young Researcher’s Organization was held at University of Žilina on July 5-7. This workshop was organized in the frame of conference on Information and Digital Technologies (IDT 2017) in accordance with WP 3.3 Intense training of teachers and young researchers. Conference IDT 2017 provided a forum for presentation and discussion of research contributions covering theories and methods in fields of information and digital technologies, and their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. IDT 2017 was also an opportunity for teachers, researchers, practitioners, academics and engineers to meet, exchange ideas, and gain insights from each other. IDT 2017 offered a platform to address the technological, societal and other aspects of information systems of TEMPUS CERES project.

The main aim of the CERES workshop was to bring together young researchers, teachers from academy as well as industry working in all areas of information technologies. Organizers tried to create good atmosphere and conditions for current and interesting presentations, discussions and cooperation. Participants could also take attendance in other workshops of the conference. Namely, they could visit and discussed within workshops on (a) Dynamical Systems and Real World; (b) New Frontier Information Digital Technology: From Logic Design To Real-World Applications; (c) Reliability Technologies and (d) Biomedical Technologies. More than 50 works of workshop’s participants and experts were presented. Some of presentations of young researchers were discussed at 4 oral workshop sections and 68 11 conference sections. Some of them were included into the well-known IEEE Xplore and Scopus repositories. This guarantees increasing of potential of workshop’s participants. In the plenary sessions, distinguished invited experts gave a review of the future perspectives in their research areas: reliability, medical informatics, information technologies and logic design. In particular, next invited lectures were given:

• Prof. Frank Coolen, (Durham University, UK). The Survival Signature for System Reliability;
• Prof. Radim Bris (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic). Stochastic Ageing and Maintenance Models for Unavailability Quantification of Complex Multi-Component Systems;
• Prof. Max A. Viergever (University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands). Challenges in Medical Image Analysis;
• Prof. Claudio Moraga (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany). Selected Aspects of Multiple-valued Bent Functions;
• Prof. Charles El-Nouty (Universite Paris 13, France). On the Mixed Integrated Fractional Brownian Motion;
• Dr. Michal Varga (University of Žilina, Slovakia). Application of Diverse Techniques and Paradigms in Pedestrian Movement and Behavior simulator.

The organizing team prepared several cultural and social events that were held in pleasant atmosphere. Participants visited to two famous Slovak castles, which are located in Trenčín and Strečno. The Trenčín Castle, whose origins are dated to the end of 9th century, had seen below its walls hostile armies of Czech and Polish kings, Tatar hordes, imperial landsknechts, soldiers of the Turkish sultan, Tatars of the Khan of Krym, companies of the Duke of Sesia, and Kurucs and Labanec armies. However, it has never been conquered by a direct attack. The oldest stone construction of the castle is the pre-Romanesque rotunda, which dates back to Great Moravia period. 69 The Strečno Castle is a ruin of a medieval castle of an irregular plan located in northern Slovakia, 12 km east of Žilina. The castle stands on a 103-metre-high cliff above river Váh. The first recorded mention of the stone castle is from 1316. Participants of the workshop really liked the scientific part and cultural events. The workshop’s participants obtained the official certificates that confirmed quality of their works.

Based on their feedbacks, the organizers hope that similar workshops will also be organized in the frame of next IDT conferences. The organizers also expressed hope that the CERES workshop became a good start point for participants in their research career, and it allowed them to increase their research potential.

On April 24-26, 2017, a coordinating meeting of the participants of the project Centers of Excellence for young RESearches (CERES) took place in Paderborn University (Federal Republic of Germany).

During the meeting, there were made presentations and were discussed the issues of functioning and the first experience of the Ceres-portal using for target groups (young scientists, university professors and research-production enterprises). The problems of the development and sustainable functioning of the Ceres Journal for young scientists and the Internet site were raised. The meeting was greeted by Dr. Karen Suresh-Sloan, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, and leading experts from the Paderborn University.