Fine particles play important roles in many producing industries, as starting materials, intermediates or final products. In fact a majority of production processes involve powders or suspensions of some kind, making fine particle technology a key discipline in Chemical Engineering. Additionally, the importance of fine particles in environmental health and workplace safety has gained increasing attention in recent years. Examples for this are concerns regarding the exposure of urban populations to fine dust emissions from traffic and industrial sources, the issues arising from the evolving nanoparticle producing industries regarding workplace exposure to nano-aerosols and the potential release of nanoparticles from recycling/degradation of products containing such materials. Due to their large specific surface area, high mobility and the commonly high concentrations, dynamic changes in the main physical characteristics are typical for fine particle systems. In industrial applications, but also in the environment, these temporal changes with respect to size, number and surface chemistry determine their properties and are therefore of utmost importance. The main goal of the workshop is therefore to foster collaborations in the area of dynamic processes in fine particle technology between Chinese and German groups specializing in either modeling or experimental investigations in this area. To achieve this goal, the state of knowledge on dynamic processes in fine particle systems in China and Germany will be presented by leading researchers in the field to provide an overview of the research in this area in the two countries from the viewpoints of experimentalists and modelers, respectively. In addition, several leading researchers in the field of fine particle technology from The United States, Australia, Jordan, India, South Korea are also invited to attend this workshop. The presentations in the workshop will provide a basis for the identification of research needs and will generate points of contact between the theoretically and experimentally oriented participants. Thus, the symposium will create an ideal environment for the formulation of common research challenges for collaborative projects involving modeling and experimental work in this area. A special issue of China Particuology is approved by the editors to publish the proceedings of the meeting. While this first meeting is targeted at the PI-level, a follow-up meeting will be organized in Germany in the fall of 2013, which will bring junior researchers from the groups together with the goal of finalizing common research proposals and affirming collaborations.