We are very pleased to inform you that the 17th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2014) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 15th to the 19th of September 2014. The late Summer weather will be warm and pleasant in Lisbon, a charming and lively city with nice hotels, restaurants and surroundings. We cordially invite you to attend the meeting. The International Congress on Plasma Physics was first held in Nagoya, in 1980, and followed by similar events in many different cities around the word: Gothenburg (1982), Lausanne (1984), Kiev (1987), New Delhi (1989), Innsbruck (1992), Foz-do-Iguaçu (1994), Nagoya (1996), Prague (1998), Quebec City (2000), Sydney (2002), Nice (2004), Kiev (2006), Fukuoka (2008), Santiago (2010) and Stockholm (2012). The scope of ICPP is to discuss the recent progress and to establish a view on the future of plasma science, covering a wide range of aspects on fundamental plasma physics, fusion plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, and plasma applications.