Energy, the environment and human health have emerged as strategic priorities not only in research but in all aspects of our lives. Hybrid materials have already demonstrated good promise in addressing and offering solutions in each of these priority areas. The main objective of this large interdisciplinary conference is to bring together, at a truly international level, people with shared interests in hybrid materials, including: Polymer chemists, physicists and engineers Biomaterials chemists, physicists and engineers Organic chemists Inorganic chemists Solid state chemists Sol-gel chemists Composites scientists Colloid chemists and physicists Zeolite, meso- and microporous materials scientists Broad nano- and materials scientists