The 7th UFEM gathering, like its predecessors, advances further toward its goal of accomplishing “a unified method” in computational mechanics. No matter how powerful a methodology might be for a certain class of problems, it often presents shortcomings for others. Since engineering problems today are very complex and contain subregions with completely different physical and geometrical characteristics, certainly no single method is capable of handling the entirety of the problem. Consequently, the identification of various methodologies, each suitable for a particular subregion, and their unification have recently been in the minds of many researchers.