Key Scientific Topics

• Local young clusters: insights on cluster formation and early evolution 

Latest advancements and developments triggered by large surveys and new instrumentations (e.g., JWST, Euclid, LSST, Gaia) in the Galaxy and in extra-galactic cluster population studies 

• Local globular clusters and globular cluster systems and their link with galaxy assembly and evolution

Main properties of globular clusters, the multiple population phenomenon, globular cluster systems, local globular cluster as a benchmark for high-redshift systems

• High-z observations of clumps, proto-clusters and dense stellar systems: their role in the early Universe

State of the art of clump and cluster detection and characterization at high-z. Implications on massive cluster formation as a function of the host galaxy physical conditions, their potential role in the reionization of the early Universe 

• Cluster formation in the context of cosmological simulations

Frontier of cluster formation simulations and massive clusters – galaxy evolution link. Predictive power vs necessary input from the observations

• Next generation of observational facilities

Observing star clusters with the next generation of ground-based and space observational facilities