The first official annual meeting of the Max Planck Centre was held at the University of Ottawa’s main campus in downtown Ottawa. Fifteen researchers from Germany met with the Canadian groups of the MPC. Over three days, thirty presentations were given with the purpose of demonstrating the multiple research topics being explored by the researchers of the MPC, and to initiate scientific discussions and collaborative research projects. In total, over seventy researchers attended the meeting and several research collaborations were initiated in the following months.