The European Joint Committee on Plasma and Ion Surface Engineering (EJC-PISE) in cooperation with the European Society of Thin Films e.V. (EFDS), Germany and the E.O.Paton Electric Welding Institute (PEWI), Ukraine are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Workshop on "Plasma and Electron Beam Technologies for Protective Coatings", which will be held in Kiev, Ukraine, June 16-17, 2010. The workshop will be supported by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen "Otto von Guericke" e.V." (AiF) and funded by the International Office of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).