Successfully launched on 27 December 2006 CoRoT started, about one month later, the first photometric survey aimed at detecting planetary transits from space. After a brief description of the instrument and the mission profile, we will present results issued from a first analysis of the data. These preliminary results illustrate the onflight

We describe the present status of the mass discrepancy in the Upper HR Diagram.

We present a new automatic code (ARES) for the determination of equivalent widths of absorption lines present in stellar spectra. We also describe its use for the determination of fundamental spectroscopic stellar parameters. The code is written in C++ based on the standard method of determining EWs, and is available for the community. We test the

A search for very low-mass and brown dwarfs using Virtual Observatory Tools for cross-correlation of large area catalogs and databases (DENIS, IPHAS, SDSS, 2MASS) is presented. We have obtained follow-up imaging and spectroscopy for some of the candidates. First results from spectroscopic follow-up of candidates will be reported.

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