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.