The 18th International Plant Nutrition Colloquium (IPNC) will be held 21 - 24 August 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is the most important international meeting on fundamental and applied plant nutrition. The main theme in 2017 is "Plant Nutrition for Global Green Growth". This theme has been chosen to highlight that plant nutrients are fundamental for successful intensification of the global crop production. This intensification is required to meet the demands of the future bio-based society for nutritious food, feed and raw materials. The colloquium provides an excellent forum for the exchange and transfer of knowledge, information and ideas as well as for creating new collaborations and fostering synergies in the fields of plant mineral nutrition, plant molecular biology, plant genetics, agronomy, horticulture, ecology, environmental sciences and fertilizer use and production.