On September 13-15, Ēriks Birks (ISSP UL Head of Laboratory of Ferroelectric Materials) and Andris Šternbergs (ISSU UL Deputy Director of science) participated in the International Symposium on Piezocomposite Applications 2017 (ISPA 2017) at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden, Germany and discussed possibilities of collaboration.