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Many things have happened at the international sphere since the last European Conference of Permafrost. Amongst them, a pandemic that has impacted scientific activity in many ways, e.g., constraints on the field campaigns, delays in the laboratory tasks and the limitation, adaptation or even cancellation of the scientific meetings. Indeed, the 6th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP 2023) should have taken place in June 2022 but we had to delay it one year due to the pandemic situation. Today, having overcome those difficult times and just a few days before the opening of the EUCOP 2023 conference in Puigcerdà, in the heart of the Eastern Pyrenees, it is a pleasure for us to briefly outline how this long journey has been. Involving a Local Organizing Committee (LOC) was the initial (and the easiest) task. Our colleagues and friends showed a great predisposition since the very beginning of this adventure. Their commitment and invaluable support have been constant throughout this process and help also to engage a strong panel of world-leading scientists that form the International Scientific Committee (ISC). The next step was to open the call for session proposals. The LOC received 24 proposals encompassing different topics within the permafrost science and engineering. Each session is coordinated by 2-4 conveners, one of them being member of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN). With the session sketch shaped, we opened the call for abstracts that was resounding success: over 510 abstracts were received, sent by 448 scientists and engineers from 52 countries. Then came the hardest (and invaluable) task of conveners, with the revision of the abstracts within a few weeks. They decided on their acceptance or rejection, the format of presentation and designed the program of the oral slots. After the reviewing stage, and due to some withdrawals of abstracts by colleagues that will not be able to attend the conference, the Book of Abstracts that you have in your hands includes a total of 485 contributions (224 orals and 261 posters). It is now, after all these tasks and various meetings between the members of the LOC and ISC, session conveners, organizers of the workshops, local authorities, sponsors and all the people that have contributed to the organization and provided support for the Conference, we are pleased to deliver to the EUCOP 2023 attendees this humble Book of Abstracts. We are fully satisfied with the high quality of the submissions and the high level of the scientific production of the international permafrost community. We hope that you will appreciate the result of this humble collective work that, for sure, will contribute to a step forward in the comprehension of the permafrost evolution and dynamics in our currently changing world.