The conference topics are divided in to three categories: ESA Workshop Topics, GSMM Topics, and Joint Topics. Selection of the category for each paper is based on the preference of the authors and the decision of the Technical Program Committee.
| ESA Workshop | GSMM | Joint |
| Remote sensing instruments | Automotive applications | Analytical and numerical modelling |
| Instruments for space science and radio astronomy | Communication systems and applications | Antennas and propagation |
| Micromachining and innovative fabrication techniques | Frequency management and utilization | Device and circuit technologies |
| Novel materials (metamaterials, nanotubes, etc.) | Millimetre-wave home link systems | Millimetre-wave measurements |
| Mm-wave technologies for space | Millimetre-wave LANs and PANs | Millimetre-wave MMICs |
| Sub-mm wave/terahertz technologies and applications | Millimetre-wave photonics | Millimetre-wave systems and sub-systems |
| Wireless access systems | On-wafer and power measurements | |
| Phased array antennas | ||
| Quasi-optics | ||
| THz-imaging | ||
| New frontiers in mm/sub-mm waves integrated dielectric focusing systems (NEWFOCUS) |