This conference was organized in the frame of the European Community FP5 Program, within the "MULTIMETOX" thematic network.

The main scope of this Conference was to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of research and development including, basic physics, material science, with a special focus on application of superconducting, ferroelectric and magnetoresistive oxide thin films and multilayers in electronic devices.

The Conference focussed on the following general topics : ferroelectric and dielectric oxides, high temperature superconductors, magnetic oxides, thin films and multilayers, epitaxial growth and related problems, microstructure and physical characterizations, applications of metal oxide multilayers.