partnership with The Mulhouse Materials Science Institute (IS2M), a CNRS-University mixed research unit located in Haute-Alsace (France), and in collaboration with other universities in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions and several publishing partners. The proceedings papers (limited to 5 Word pages including figures and references) will be published in the Springer ASTI Book Series (indexed in Scopus and SCImago) and extended papers will be published in Special Issues of journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.