Advanced Materials for a Greener World 21, 22 e 23 de junho de 2017, Braga, Portugal 250 participantes, 40 países, 203 apresentações. Decorreu no Hotel Meliã e teve como oradores principais Alain Dufresne, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, Sabu Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University, India e Alexander Bismarck, Polymer and Composite Engineering (PaCE) Group, United Kingdom. Foram oradores convidados Ing. Jörg Müssig, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Ryszard Kozlowski, Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants, Poland, Rajesh D. Anandjiwala, CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing, South Africa, Sohel Rana, Fibrenamics, University of Minho, Portugal, Leonardo Simon, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada e Orlando Rojas, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, Finland. O programa social incluiu uma visita ao Santuário do Bom Jesus do Monte, um jantar de gala e passeio pedestre pelo centro Histórico de Braga, participando nas festas de S.João.