In May 1993, the first in a series of Euroconferences organized within the Human Capital and Mobility programme of the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) was arranged at Studsvik, Sweden, by the Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory (NFL). According to the CEC objectives, a Euroconference should be a meeting at the cutting edge of scientific or technical knowledge and it should give young and promising European researchers, through their active participation in such a meeting, the possibility to benefit from contacts with high level scientists. In order to achieve this goal the international organizing committee, headed by Ulf Dahlborg, NFL and Stockholm, and consisting of members from Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, decided that the first Euroconference at Studsvik should not be too large, but that the intimate character of the meeting was more important. Thus, the maximum number of participants was set at about 70. Out of these, the participation of 22 youngresearchers, the majority of them coming from less-favored regions in Europe, was completely financed by the CEC, but the conference was also co-sponsored by the Swedish Natural Research Council. It was also considered by the committee to be a very important task of the Euroconference to show to the young scientists, some of whom did not have any experience in the use of the neutron scattering technique, what they may achieve by adding this technique to their research arsenal.