This 10 day international school aims at training young academical/industrial researchers and students at research level in the interdisciplinary fields of principles and advances of x-ray scattering/diffraction, protein and molecular crystallography, x-ray absorption and florescense spectroscopy, x-ray imaging and tomography, nuclear resonance scattering, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ultra fast applications in the nano and fempto regimes. The target audience range from physics, chemistry, structural and functional biology, bio-organic chemistry, geology, mineral physics, material science, earth and enviromental sciences, botanics and medical sciences.