The symposium "Towards the next generation of X-ray surveys with Athena" will be held from the 30th of June to the 1st of July at the European Astronomical Society 2022 Meeting in Valencia (Spain). The abstract deadline is the 1st of March 2022 at: https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2022/abstract_submission.jsp

The program will cover primarily the following topics:

• Athena status and payload design
• AGN population and evolution studies
• Formation and evolution of large-scale structures (from WHIM to IGM/ICM) and cosmology
• Survey of the Galaxy and nearby galaxies
• Transient sources and multi-messenger astrophysics.

Further information on the symposium web portal at https://www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/news/2022-eas-s5.html