Taking the opportunity of having WWW in Europe this year, we are excited to invite you to a special track dedicated to web research in the making, looking at a selection the most promising projects funded by the European Commisision in this domain. This is a also an opportunity to discuss openly on future topics for research, with representatives of the European Commission exposing their goals for the next framework programme. The session will be specially looking into the following domains: Data management, Search, Social computing, Infrastructure for Web Science, Language technology and Mobile. We particularly invite researchers of other continents to come and share their views on the approaches and directions taken in these projects.