Remarkable advances in the understanding of topological constraints in biological and soft matter physics in the past few years stimulated the European COST collaboration EUTOPIA to write a comprehensive review paper on topological effects in systems ranging from DNA and genome organization to entangled proteins, polymeric materials, liquid crystals, and theoretical physics. The main intention of the review is to reduce the barriers between different subfields of soft and biological matter that are the consequence of the high specialization of practically all research fields, ranging from physics to chemistry and biology. Simon Čopar, Miha Ravnik, Primož Ziherl, and Slobodan Žumer, researchers from the “Jožef Stefan” Institute and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Ljubljana who participate in the EUTOPIA project, together with other colleagues from the collaboration project, published a review article Topology in soft and biological matter in the journal Physics Reports.