Dear colleagues, friends and all chemists,

the 18^th International Conference on Polysaccharides and Glycoscience (ICPG) will be held in person at Novotného lávka 5, from November 9 to 11, 2022 under the auspice of the Czech Chemical Society and cooperation with the Department of Carbohydrates and Cereals, UCT Prague. This 18th year continues a long tradition of ICPG conferences. We would like to continue in the essence of our conference, which will be focused on the structural characterization and biological activities of polysaccharides as well as their technological production and application as biodegradable materials.

This conference belongs to the activities of the international organization EuCheMS and of the organization Chemistry Europe.
Proceedings of the 18^th ICPG will include abstracts and fulltexts and will be published in the paper and online version this year. We encourage young scientists to sing to the Young Scientific Award for lecture and poster sections.

Special thanks to the companies that support this 18^th conference. Their logos and short communications will be included in the proceedings. We suppose that the Web of Science will accept these proceedings, as it was done in previous years.

We will open our 18^th ICPG traditionally in ART CAFE, Karlova 2, Staré Město, Prague, with glass of wine.

If you decide to participate in the 18^th ICPG, we believe that you will enjoy it and that this conference will meet your expectations as well.

For the Scientific Committee
Roman Bleha, Jana Čopíková, Evžen Šárka