After signing a Memorandum of Understanding, during a bilateral symposium funded by DFG and JSPS last year, we are delighted to welcome Professor Mizutani from the Tokyo Institute of Technology back to our institute. We discussed and planed the details of our upcoming collaborative research in the field of multifunctional bondlines for composites. Besides this one student of Mizutani Laboratory will spend one week at IMA conducting experiments in the field of ultrasonic sensing. We hope that the results will pave the way for even more new joint projects in the future.