We announce a Summer School to be held in Erice (Italy) from July 14th to July 18th, 2017. Main lecturers: Claudio Zannoni (Bottom-up models of liquid crystals), Slobodan Zumer (Complex topological defects in constrained LCs), Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Modelling LC devices), Tim Sluckin (Approximate statistical mechanics methods), Paolo Biscari and Antonio Di Carlo (Hydrodynamical models). More information you can find on the website.