Part I Recent, on-going and planned surveys. Cluster searches. Technical challenges -- Optical digital Galactic Plane surveys and star-cluster science -- Census of Milky Way Star Clusters from Infrared Surveys -- Time-resolved surveys of stellar clusters -- SDSS-III/APOGEE: Detailed Abundances of Galactic Star Clusters -- Processing Data from Large Infrared Surveys -- Properties of Star Clusters Found and Investigated by Data from Large Surveys -- Developments of the open cluster database WEBDA -- Inferring stellar properties using colours, parallaxes and an HRD prior -- AstrOmatic software in the era of large stellar photometric surveys -- Cluster parameter determinations for large datasets -- Open clusters science in the Virtual Observatory era -- GALExtin: A VO-Service for estimating Galactic interstellar extinction -- YSO clusters on galactic infrared loops -- VVV Search for New Young Clusters Towards the Star Forming Regions in our Galaxy. First Results -- New MilkyWay star cluster candidates from DSS and 2MASS -- VVV study of the young Milky Way star clusters: Mercer 35, 69 and 70 -- Part II Star formation & evolution. The MilkyWay and beyond -- Optical surveys of young open clusters -- Probing the low-mass end of the IMF in star-forming regions: a WIRCam/CFHT Survey -- Dynamics in the embedded phase: accretion, collisions, contraction -- Unraveling the initial conditions of star formation in Serpens North -- Do All Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood Form in Clusters? -- Uncertainties in the Age Scale for Young Open Clusters and Moving Groups -- Are there age spreads in star forming regions? -- The relevance of X-ray surveys for the study of the properties of young open clusters -- Chandra observations of Cygnus OB2 -- Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way: the Cl1813-178 and GLIMPSE 9 clusters -- Multiple populations in Globular Clusters: The role of AGB and super-AGB stars -- Chemical properties of the open cluster population -- Deep and extended multiband photometry of the Galactic globular cluster M71 -- Chromospheric activity and Lithium abundance in NGC2516 -- A deep photometric survey of the double cluster h & c Per -- A detailed spectroscopic analysis of the open cluster NGC 5460 -- A kinematic study of open clusters: implications for origin -- The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters Used as a Distance Indicator -- Chemical properties of the Hipparcos red clump -- Chemical composition of a kinematically identified stellar group in the MilkyWay -- Star Disk Interaction in T Tauri Stars: Analysis of the MgII Lines -- Indication of Mass Segregation in LMC Star Clusters -- Carbon and nitrogen as tracers of stellar evolution in red clump stars of open clusters -- Observations of the IMF in clusters -- Dynamical evolution of rotating globular clusters with embedded black holes -- Stellar populations in the super star clusters NGC 3603 and 30 Doradus -- Dynamical Expansion of Star Clusters -- The Metallicity Gradient in the Galactic Disk Revealed by Cepheids and Open Clusters -- Spitzer’s view of NGC2264’s circumstellar disk population -- Super star clusters in IR-luminous interacting galaxies: the NIR luminosity function -- Populations of Variable Stars in Open Clusters -- Tracing the structure of the Perseus Arm with IPHAS -- Setting up the T35 telescope at Sierra Nevada Observatory for detecting variable stars in open clusters -- The substellar population of the s Orionis cluster.

The symposium “Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys” was held in Lisbon on Sep 9-10 during the JENAM 2010. It served as a platform for discussing what and how recent, on-going and planned large-area ground-based and space-based surveys can contribute to producing a major leap in this research field, which has a strong European history. Scientific topics addressed included: • Cluster searches • Clustered vs. isolated star formation, large-scale star formation, enrichment of the field population • Structure, populations and evolution of the Milky Way • Cluster dynamics (internal and within the Milky Way) • Variability of stars in clusters (from time-resolved surveys) • Analysis techniques for large samples • Archiving This proceedings book provides a snapshot of the ongoing discussion on the role of large surveys in star cluster research, and serves as a reference volume for the state-of-the art in the field.