On behalf of the Organizing Committee it is a great honor and pleasure to wish you a warm welcome The 5th International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education (VARE) held in Lisbon, Portugal. VARE is an event that brings together trainers in all areas of knowledge and educational levels as well as researchers and scientists from virtual technologies and advanced visualization and virtualization technologies. The upcoming 5th edition brings to Lisbon prestigious speakers from all over the world addressing the most important advances in the field of extended reality, video-mapping, augmented reality, visual analytics, virtual reality and virtual visualization. Through its scientific sessions, VARE will provide meaningful insights on current research trends and, in turn, it will contribute to new research directions encouraging constructive debate and synergies among subject matter experts. Lastly, but by no means least, our host city Lisbon, known for its beautiful architecture with its wealth of monuments and an abundance of cultural attractions, provides the ideal framework to host such event. Our sincere thanks, to the conference organizing committee for their dedication and hard work in creating an excellent scientific program. We are very pleased to welcome you all for what promises to be an outstanding educational event.