1 Introduction 2 Stability of dynamical systems, bifurcations, and generic properties 2.1 Some general notions 2.2 Autonomous systems of ODEs 2.3 Examples: Bifurcation depending on a parameter 2.4 Chaos in differential and difference equations. The concept of an attractor 2.5 Interaction, or the interplay between concentration or reaction and diffusion 2.6 Discrete and&nbs