Between 10 and 13 October 2023, the International Conference on Materials and Technology took place in Portorož. At the conference program, a section for young researchers was included in which participants competed for the best oral and poster presentations, mainly in the field of synthesis and characterization of metallic and non-metallic materials and modelling and optimization of industrial processes. Three prizes were announced for presentations and one prize for posters. A five-member international jury evaluated all presentations and posters. Among the young researchers, the awards were given to colleagues from the Department for Nanostructured Materials. Monika Kušter received the first prize for the oral presentation, entitled Composite material based on polymer matrix reinforced with Al-based Quasicrystal powder, and Tina Radoševič received the prize for the best poster presentation, entitled Photocatalytic degradation of synthetic textile microplastic fibers with TiO2 as photocatalysts.