This year over 60 participants from many countries of Central and Southeast Europe participated in the symposium: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine. Among the participants were Ukrainian specialists, members of the Ukrainian Association of Geologists.
The symposium addressed the issues of stratigraphy of Paratethys and the Great Pannonian basin, macro- and micropaleontology of Neogene minerals, hydrogeology and oil and gas potential of Neogene deposits in the region.
The conference began daily with a field trip to familiarize participants with key detachments of Neogene rocks (both sedimentary and volcanic) in South Styria and Burgenland, and in the afternoon, there were plenary sessions.
Before the symposium, the organizers published a wonderful collection containing theses of reports and a field trip guide, along with general information about Neogene in Austrian lands. It worth noting that the complaints of Europeans on the methodological discrepancy in the stratigraphic division of the Neogene in the southern Ukraine were included in the scientific results of the symposium.