During three days in Leipzig we listened to the current status of ten PhD students within the priority program MemrisTec and gave plenty of opportunities to network and learn from each other. A huge thank you from the MemrisTec coordinator Ronald Tetzlaff from Technische Universität Dresden to all participants and the local organizers around Kirill Monakhov from the Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering in Leipzig who offered perfect conditions to perform this Seminar.