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.
