The aim of this international symposium was to bring together active scientists from Central, East & West Europe working in the field of physics of continua. So 9 invited & 27 contributed lectures were delivered, & 16 posters were presented from scientists of 12 European countries. The covered fields of the symposium were thermomechanics including thermovisco-plasticity & magnetoplasticity, nonlinear & hyperbolic heat conduction processes, two-phase flow, biomechanics & mesoscopic continuum mechanics. A final discussion on the terminology of continuum physics brought closer together the different theoretical methods used in the various fields. Contents: Simulation of Percolation Through Porous Media Using Particle Dynamics (W Alda et al.); Magnetoplasticity in Nonmagnetic Crystals (V I Alshits et al.); Two-Phase One-Component System as a Continuum with an Internal Structure (Z Bilicki); Some Aspects of Nonlinear Forced Vibrations (C Drogomiretska); Thermomechanical Coupling in Viscoplasticity (P Haupt); Nonclassical Heat Transport & Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics (D Jou); Deformation & Fracture of Polymers: Relativistic Approach (G M Kerch); Acoustical Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions of Isopropyl Alcohol (V P Kopylchuk & A O Semenov); Liquid Crystal Theory as an Example of Mesoscopic Continuum Mechanics (C Papenfub et al.); Temperature Dependence of the Electrical Conductivity in Glasses with Two Types of Hopping Centres (J Rybicki et al.); Propagation of Disturbances Along Axial Lines of Tectonic Flows Under Conditions of Continual Destruction (I T Selezov & V B Spirtus); Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics & the Motion of Continua (J Verhas); & other papers. Readership: Scientists, researchers, engineers & postdoctoral students.