The Young Ceramists Network (YCN) was established by the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) to build a platform to promote the networking between young researchers and professionals that are active in the ceramic-related fields worldwide from academia to the industrial sector. With the help of the newly established open access journal, Open Ceramics, the YCN aims to promote the visibility of their fellow young ceramists, who finished their PhD no more than 10 years ago and who are conducting excellent research in the field of ceramics, by inviting them to publish their recent work in a special issue (SI) entitled “Young Ceramists in the Spotlight”. This SI shows the lastest advances achieved in ceramics and glasses by young ceramists from around the world. The collected contributions from younger geerations resemble their vision and impact on the advances on ceramic sciences covering topics from glasses to refractories, electroceramics to bioceramics, traditional ceramics to advanced ceramics, non-conventional processing methods to novel characterization techniques and analysis.