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The 1st International Congress on Stratigraphy – STRATI 2013 – was held in Lisbon in July 2013 under the auspices of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It was a follow up of a conference organized in 2010 by the French Committee on Stratigraphy in Paris and was supposed to internationalize the STRATI conferences and to demonstrate the great interest in and importance of stratigraphy. The Lisbon meeting was a great success, thanks to the local organizing committee, and thus the chair of ICS, Stanley Finney, urged to continue this type of conference in 2 years’ time in order not lose the momentum that had been generated in Lisbon. The Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Graz, Austria, applied to organize the congress in 2015 in Graz and was elected. We decided not to launch a motto but to open the congress to all topics in stratigraphy. This led to submission of 31 scientific sessions with about 60 conveners covering Earth’s and other planets’ history from the Precambrian to the Quaternary and reflecting most methods applied in classical and modern stratigraphy. The broad field of topics is mirrored in the program which includes more than 260 oral and about 170 poster presentations. Besides these scientific presentations the congress also provides space and time for field trips and also for meetings of the ICS board and the subcommissions demonstrating its quasi-official position within ICS. We invited 5 keynote presentations, dealing with various aspects of stratigraphy: (a) the hot topic of the ‘Anthropocene’ is referred by Stanley Finney – the chair of ICS, (b) Ken Miller integrates climate and geodynamics with stratigraphy, (c) Marie-Pierre Aubry provides a review of the classical methods, chrono- and biostratigraphy, in the Cenozoic, (d) Helmut Weissert deals with carbon isotope geochemistry and its stratigraphic-paleoceanographic interrelationships, and (e) Frederik Hilgen will provide a future prospect on the Astronomic Time Scale. Most of these approaches are already integrated in many of the presentations attesting the importance of these themes and methods. In addition, we want to particularly point at Session 01 “The contribution of fossils to Chronostratigraphy, 150 years after Albert Oppel“ which is not a session dealing with historical aspects but clearly testifies that basic problems in stratigraphy are still unsolved! The organizers want to express their sincere thanks to the session conveners, who constitute, in fact, the scientific committee! The effort of all these excellent scientists brought together the world’s leading stratigraphers and gave adequate importance to the congress. Werner E. Piller for the organizing committee