The conference provides scientists, researchers and engineers from across Europe, and working in academia, national labs and industry, the opportunity to meet and discuss the latest advances in the physics and chemistry of surfaces, plasma physics, gas dynamics, vacuum metrology and vacuum technologies as well as their industrial applications. It is a forum to discuss the progress of surface science in related innovation fields such as heterogeneous catalysis, organic molecular nano-architectures, two-dimensional materials and graphene, nanoelectronics, bio-nanoscience and functional and energy materials, surface cleaning and polishing, thin films deposition and characterisation, interaction of photon, electrons and ions with a surface made of different materials, gas diffusion and desorption processes, etc., studied both using theoretical and experimental methods.