Forck, P. Gerth, C. Iriso, U. Ischebeck, R. Jones, O.R. Pérez, F. Sapinski, M. Wittenburg, K. JACoW Publishing Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-201-1 10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2018-MOPB02 English 71-74 MOPB02 electron synchrotron diagnostics emittance hadron Contribution to a conference proceedings 2019 2019-01 https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2018-MOPB02 http://jacow.org/ibic2018/papers/mopb02.pdf Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society, ARIES, is an initiative funded by the European Union (https://aries.web.cern.ch/). The activity comprises three major categories: Joint Research Activities; Transnational Access; Network Activities. One of these networks is related to Advanced Diagnostics at Accelerators (ADA) with the task of strengthening collaborations between international laboratories for coordinated research and development in beam diagnostics (https://aries.web.cern.ch/content/wp8). This task is performed by organizing topical workshops on actual developments and supporting interchange of experts between different labs. Since the start of the project in May 2017 four topical workshops of two to three days duration have been organized, each with 30-40 participants ranging from novices to worldwide experts in their particular field. In this contribution these initial workshops are summarized and an outlook given for further workshops within this ARIES-ADA network.