The goals of this workshop are:

• to illustrate active trends in a number of subjects in nonparametric statistics, including curve estimation, model checking, functional data, survival analysis, adaptive bandwidth choice and bootstrap;
  
  
• to give an opportunity for research students to develop their competence in nonparametric methods;
  
  
• to provide a meeting point for researchers in nonparametric inference, intending to contribute for the establishment of new links;
  
  
• additionally, we also hope to contribute to incentive national research in nonparametric statistical topics.