Vassiliki Gkogkaki and Alexandros Karageorgis of the Analytical chemistry lab participated in the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, which was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 29 January – 3 February 2023. Over the course of five days the participants – about 550 scientists from 30 countries – were offered a program, focusing on topics concerning mass and emission spectrometric techniques, including fundamentals and instrumentation, sample introduction techniques, glow discharge, laser ablation, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and quality control.