The International Symposium on Cement-base Materials for Nuclear Waste (NUWCEM) will be held in Avignon (France), from 24 to 26 October 2018, at the Palais des Papes. The first day of the symposium (October 24th, 2018) will be organized concomitantly with the DEM 2018 Conference (www.sfen-dem2018.org/presentation) to bring together communities from the different branches of decontamination & dismantling and waste conditioning.