Welcome to the 17th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC-17), which is held at The University of Münster (WWU) from August 25th to 29th 2024. The EuroBIC conference series provides a platform for the presentation and discussion of the latest developments at the interface of Inorganic Chemistry and Life Sciences. EuroBIC-17 will follow the highly successful previous meetings, the last four being held in Grenoble (2022), Reykjavik (2020, online conference), Birmingham (2018), and Budapest (2016). Twenty years after EuroBIC-7 had taken place in Garmisch‐Partenkirchen in 2004, we are pleased to host EuroBIC-17 in Germany again.