The Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, INFN-LNF Frascati and Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Cracow are organizing a biennial workshop to establish closer contacts between experimentalists and theorists involved in the studies of meson production, properties and interaction.

The meeting will include lectures on both experimental and theoretical aspects of this field, especially the presentation of new results.

The main topics of the workshop are:

• hadronic and electromagnetic meson production,
• meson interaction with mesons, nucleons and nuclei,
• structure of hadrons,
• fundamental symmetries,
• exotic systems,
• novel approaches in theory and experiment.

The intention is to present an overview of the present state of studies in these fields along with the new developments, as well as a preview of the forthcoming investigations. This workshop - the fifteenth of the series - will continue the tradition of workshops organized since 1991 in Kraków. The proceedings of the MESON2016 workshop were published in the EPJ Web of Conferences Vol. 130 (2016).

The poster session will provide an opportunity for students and young scientists to present the results of their work. There will be a competition for the best posters. Besides attractive prizes, the author of the best poster will be asked to present his or her work orally during one of the sessions on Monday afternoon.