The 10th edition of the "European Workshop on Metalorganic Vapour Phase Epitaxy", held at the University of Lecce Ecotekne Congress Center, has been organised by the Dept. of Innovation Engineering of the University and by the Lecce Section of the CNR Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM - CNR). Both Institutions have been deeply involved in MOVPE since the last 15 years, with a substantial growth of scientific interests and activities in the last few years. Current researches at Lecce span now through almost all classes of semiconducting compounds and structures for both opto- and micor-electronics and photonics. Lecce could be thus regarded as one of the MOVPE 'poles' of Italy.