Introduction to the proceedings of the Workshop on Topology and Topological Groups (WTTG2023) held at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg (South Africa) on the 16th and 17th of November 2023

We illustrate briefly the nature of the scientific contributions, which appear in the proceedings of WTTG2023 held at AIMS in Muizenberg (South Africa) on the 16th and 17th of November 2023. We also mention the history of this series of meetings and the motivations for the interactions between Topological Group Theory and other branches of mathematics; the connections with Lie Theory and Topological Algebra characterized WTTG2023. Finally, we survey the relevance of the supporting institutions and the role of their corresponding projects in the academic formation of young researchers within the initiatives of WTTG2023 (and its past editions in 2021 and 2017).