During the Meeting of the INBIL Board of Trustees, representatives of the INBIL projects informed about the current developments of their projects, and the Managing Director of the INBIL, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, reported on the developments and cooperations of the institute within the University of Bamberg. During the Meeting of the NEPS Scientific Board, the members were informed about the large progress of the project within the past year and they discussed different aspects of the general course of the project, the sampling procedures, the field work and the new NEPS Data Center. In addition, several members of the NEPS Scientific Board presented relevant research studies and discussed different approaches with the NEPS team.