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The school will cover the various aspects of diffusion in solids during a week-long course in La Londe les Maures. This course will review the fundamentals of diffusion and present recent advances in the field. The lectures will address different aspects of diffusion: mechanisms, phenomenological laws, diffusion pathways, etc. The specific characteristics of diffusion in different types of materials (metals, semiconductors, oxides, intermetallics) will be detailed. Current experimental methods, as well as recent developments in simulations (kinetic Monte Carlo, ab initio, etc.) and modeling (concentrated alloys), will also be discussed. Finally, examples of diffusion-based applications will be presented, such as diffusive phase transformations in metals and reactive diffusion for contacts in microelectronics.