The Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering takes place biennially and is jointly organized by the Spanish Society on Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI, Spain) and the “Associação Portuguesa de Mecânica Teórica, Aplicada e Computacional" (APMTAC, Portugal). The 2017 edition will take place in the "Campus de Vera" of the Technical University of Valencia (UPV). It will be a meeting point to researchers and technicians of both countries, as well as the Latin American community.

Previous joint congresses of both societies were celebrated in Madrid (2002), Lisbon (2004), Granada (2005), Porto (2007), Barcelona (2009), Coimbra (2011), Bilbao (2013) and Lisbon (2015).