Europe Workshop Research Articles

Machine translation and post-editing competence: Theory, practice and training. BME Autumn Conference, #Translating Europe Workshop, University of Technology and Economics (BME)

"Machine translation and post-editing competence: Theory, practice and training. BME Autumn Conference, #Translating Europe Workshop, University of Technology and Economics (BME)" published on 07 Jun 2023 by Akadémiai Kiadó.

The role of sulphur in the early production of copper red stained glass

Little is known about the production of ruby red copper stained glasses from the Medieval and Renaissance periods apart from the fact that the colour is due to the presence of small metallic copper nanoparticles and that tin, the most common reducing agent used in copper red glass production since the 19th century, is not present. In fact, very few workshops in Europe were able to make red glass in historical times, and they kept it secret, so very little is known about how it was obtained. These workshops exported the red glass throughout Europe. Recently, the presence of copper sulphide particles and the data obtained in the replication red glass following historical recipes suggested that sulphur might be the key ingredient in this process.Here, a collection of historical red glasses from these periods has been analysed using a combination of microanalytical techniques; Electron Microprobe (EM) and Field Emission and Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) to verify the chemical composition and nanostructure of the glasses, Synchrotron radiation micro-X-Ray Diffraction (micro-XRD) to establish the nature of the nanocrystalline precipitates, and S, Cu and Fe K-edge micro-X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (micro-XAS) to determine the speciation. The data obtained show that the oxidation of S2− into S6+ in the glass is responsible for the precipitation of copper nanoparticles. The development of a sulphide-silicate partition and the presence of Fe3+ in the melt give rise to the precipitation of the high-pressure tetragonal polymorph of chalcocite (Cu2S). Differences between the Medieval and Renaissance red glass are determined.

The role of organizations in the public communication of science – Early research, recent studies, and open questions

Organizational science communication of higher education institutions (and research institutes outside the university sector) came into view of scholars of “science journalism” soon after the begin of systematic studies of the scientist-journalist relationship. While the pioneering French study of scientists’ relationship with the mass media by Boltanski and Maldidier (1970) focused on implications of the norms of the scientific community for public communication by scientists, early surveys of scientists in the United States (Dunwoody & Ryan, 1982, 1983) and – peripherally – also in Germany (Krüger, 1985; Peters & Krüger, 1985) considered both the scientific community and the university (or other public research organizations) as relevant contexts of the scientist-journalist relationship. The issue of organizational science public relations (PR) was also addressed by scholars and practitioners in publications and workshops in Europe (see, e.g., Peters, 1984; Ruß-Mohl, 1990; Zerges & Becker, 1992) in the 1980s and early 1990s. While researchers were not oblivious of self-interests’ influence in public communication activities of universities and other research institutions, the dominant perspective on science communication was that of the relationship of science and the media, and PR officers at science organizations were largely conceptualized as “mediators between scientists and journalists” (Dunwoody & Ryan, 1983) or as “practitioner in the middle” (Rogers, 1988).

3.C. Workshop: COVID-19 – Are students’ lives turned upside down? Findings from the C19 ISWS study

Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and the corresponding COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of the general population globally. University students are in a unique position during the COVID-19 pandemic as they are confronted with substantial changes and restrictions, both at governmental and university-level. Stark changes to lifestyle include changes in social and academic life. In order to understand and investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student health and well-being, the COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study (C19 ISWS) was initiated early on in April 2020. Led by researchers at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, a survey questionnaire and protocol was written. Within a few weeks, researchers from 166 high education institutions in 26 different countries had agreed to run the survey in their respective institutions and data was collected from May- July 2020. Up until now, researchers involved in the C19 ISWS consortia have not met and thus far, only a limited amount of researchers have shared their findings. The European Public Health Conference provides a unique opportunity for researchers across countries to share and discuss key findings of the survey, including important public health messages that can be derived from the results of the survey. Presentations on study results of the C19 ISWS will be given by five presenters. Firstly, Prof. Sarah Van De Velde, principal investigator of the study, will provide an overview of the C19 ISWS study design, measures and procedures. Following this introductory talk, four presenters will provide insight into findings of the study at the international level as well as country-level from different regions with varying circumstances during the pandemic (Greece, Russia and Germany). Presentations will be scheduled for seven minutes with three minutes question, followed by a 10-minute discussion at the end. This will allow the audience time to interact with the findings. This works thus aims to provide an exchange and presentation on international as well as country-level findings of the C19 ISWS. Given the shared interest in student health and wellbeing, the joint workshop will provide a further opportunity for researchers to connect. In summary, the objectives of the workshop are: Share and discuss findings of the COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study Discuss implications of findings for student population internationally including possible measures of actions at individual, community-and structural level Connect researchers and practitioners interested in student health and well-being across Europe and internationally This workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners with an interest in student health and wellbeing, particularly students in higher education. If possible, a list of attendees and contact details will be collected with participant's agreement and shared amongst all attendees of the workshop. Key messages The COVID-19 International Student Well-Being Study (C19 ISWS) investigated the impact of the pandemic on students’ health, including students of 166 higher education institutions in 26 countries. Findings at country-and international level will be shared and discussed and implications for student’s health and wellbeing will be drawn.

Gestalt Therapy Video Demonstrations: A Contemporary Dialogue/Process Approach

Gestalt Therapy Video Demonstrations: A Contemporary Dialogue/Process Approach

IOP Preface

The Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop has been a well-established event in the area of micromachining, microengineering and microtechnology. The goals of the MME workshop are stimulation and improvement of the technical knowledge as well as the establishment of cooperation and friendship between delegates. The accent has always been on enabling mutual discussions around poster presentations rather than on formal oral presentations with a small number of world-leading talks from experts to review key research topics, focusing on both the latest results and background concepts. The areas of interest span over all aspects of MEMS and Microsystems Technology, including design and fabrication, modelling and simulation, experimental evaluation and commercial use.MME 2019 was held at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.We had four extraordinary talks, including a keynote from Professor Michael Dickey (North Carolina State University) on Liquid Metals for Microsystems. Equally interesting were the 25 flash presentations and subsequent discussions around the posters. Our 2-day meeting in the relaxed surroundings of Wolfson College provided ample room for the intense exchange of thoughts and opinions. In particular they provided PhD students and young researchers from different countries a great deal of new inspiration and impetus to their early scientific career. It was also beneficial to senior researchers as they gained new insights through the eyes of early career researchers in emerging areas such as micromechanics, micromachining, microfabrication, and microsystems.15 early career researchers also participated in the paper review session led by Professor Leon Abelmann. Our conference dinner was accompanied by a live violin concert – music never fails to get the creative juices flowing!I thank the steering committee for enabling us to host this workshop at Oxford and look forward to this innovative conference in the years to come.Harish BhaskaranDepartment of MaterialsUniversity of OxfordUnited KingdomList of titles Conference Chair, Local Organisation, Program Committee, Steering Committee are available in this pdf.

Advanced Nanosystems for Clinical Translation

Advanced Nanosystems for Clinical Translation

PERSPECTIVES ON ART EDUCATION AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE

This paper presents a sample of art education experiences, that I have been privileged to explore over 40 years. This has involved developing rationales that were required to apply to the new technologies emerging in art education in 1985. My research in this area included media workshops in England, Europe and South America. 
 The new ‘cultures’ of communication and new technologies in 21st century continue to expand our understanding of both the universe and the diverse eco systems on our planet. We live in the age of interdisciplinary practice which provides new opportunities for artists to collaborate with scientists and mathematicians.

Between east and west: Glass beads from the eighth to third centuries bce from Poland

The study analyses the chemical composition of 57 glass samples from 40 beads discovered at 20 archaeological sites in Poland. The beads are dated to Hallstatt C–Early La Tène periods (c.800/750–260/250 bce). Analyses were carried out using laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS). Two groups were distinguished among the glasses based on the MgO/K2O ratio: high‐magnesium glass (HMG), five samples; and low‐magnesium glass (LMG), 52 samples. The former were melted with halophyte plant ash, the second with mineral soda. These glasses were produced in the Eastern Mediterranean (more likely in Mesopotamia or Syro‐Palestine than in Egypt) and transported in the form of semi‐products to secondary glass workshops in Europe. Some of the white opaque glass was coloured and opacified in Europe.

Built to last! Embedding open science principles and practice into European universities

The purpose of this article is to examine the cultural change needed by universities, as identified by LERU in its report Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for cultural change.1 It begins by illustrating the nature of that cultural change. Linked to that transformation is a necessary management change to the way in which organizations perform research. Competition is not the only, or necessarily the best, way to conduct this transformation. Open science brings to the fore the values of collaboration and sharing. Building on a number of Focus on Open Science Workshops held over five years across Europe, the article identifies best practice in changing current research practices, which will then contribute to the culture change necessary to deliver open science. Four case studies, delivered at Focus on Open Science Workshops or other conferences in Europe, illustrate the advances that are being made: the findings of a Workshop on Collaboration and Competition at the OAI 11 meeting in Geneva in June 2019; alternative publishing platforms, exemplified by UCL Press; open data, FAIR data and reproducibility; and a Citizen Science Workshop held at the LIBER Conference in Dublin in June 2019.

Preface

The Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop is a well-established European event in the area of micromachining, microengineering and microtechnology. The goals of the MME workshop include stimulation and improvement of the technical knowledge as well as the establishment of cooperation and friendship between the delegates. The presented works span over all aspects of MEMS and microsystems technology, including design and fabrication, modelling and simulation, experimental evaluation and commercial use.The MME 2018 was held in the Smolenice Castle situated at the foothill of the Little Carpathians Mountains, 60 km northwest of Bratislava. The first written mention of the village of Smolenice dates back to middle of the 13th century. In the 14th century, a castle was built above the village, the last of several fortresses constructed to guard the Carpathian passes. During the years and centuries, the castle and the estates were owned by several families. The castle was burnt out during the Napoleonic wars at the beginning of the 19th century and only part of the outer fortifications remained from the original Gothic castle. The castle was completely rebuilt after the Second World War. In 1945, the state became the owner of the castle. On 26 June 1953, the rebuilt and furnished castle was handed over to the Slovak Academy of Sciences to become a representative meeting place for scientists from all over the world. Currently the castle serves as a conference centre.We have heard 4 very interesting lectures in the field of new graphene and 2D materials for gas sensors, nanometrology for MEMS and NEMS elements, carbon-based structures, as well as materials and sensor development for multifunctional smart-system integration. Similarly interesting were the 32 flash presentations and subsequent poster discussions, 15 participants were actively involved in the paper review session led by Leon Abelmann.We believe that our short 2-day meeting has provided ample room for the intense exchange of thoughts and opinions, and has provided, in particular to PhD students and young researchers from different countries a great deal of new inspiration and impetus to their early scientific career. Certainly, it was also beneficial for older researchers, not only by being able to see our students and graduate students, but that we were able to convince ourselves that the emerging young scientific generation would be equally entertaining and aiming for new insights in these attractive areas like micromechanics, micromachining, microfabrication, microtechnology and microsystems.We as organizers have tried to create a suitable environment and a relaxed atmosphere in a somewhat interesting and somewhat unusual environment of the Smolenice Castle surrounded by the woods of the Little Carpathians.We think that the format of this already well-worked and long-standing workshop addresses young people and creates good conditions for mutual cooperation not only within Europe but also Asia (Japan, Taiwan).We also thank the steering committee for enabling us to organize this workshop and thus provide our Slovak young researchers with a space for their presentation and contacts.Ivan Hotovy and Miroslav MikolasekInstitute of Electronics and PhotonicsSlovak University of Technology in BratislavaSlovakia

Ion beam analysis of silver leaves in gilt leather wall coverings

An analytical methodology involving Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) was implemented to respectively characterize the composition and the thickness of silver leaves on gilt leather decors. These objects, ancestors of our wallpapers, are nowadays still difficult to date and their provenance is generally determined from stylistic studies. The initial aim of this study was to identify markers that could be correlated with the object provenance to help distinguishing the different gilt leathers workshops in Europe. The analytical methodology was validated on modern samples and applied to a corpus of 58 ancient gilt leathers from four countries. This study provided an assessment of the sensitivity of the ion beam techniques used, and highlighted the complexity of such analyses on thin silver leaves due to the different factors affecting them, and the composite nature of the object. Thus, the thicknesses calculated from the RBS analyses presented a great variability that seems to be related to the leaf characteristics, the manufacturing process and/or the life of the decor. Nevertheless, observations suggest that silver leaves coming from the Netherlands are thicker than the ones from Spain, Italy or France. Concerning the elemental composition, the results discarded previous hypotheses and the focus was made on gold and mercury trace elements, thus it was shown that leaves in Italian decors seem to have generally a low content of these two elements. Despite the large number of decor analyzed, the corpus should be expanded over to confirm the hypotheses raised by this research. Nevertheless the results gained from this work bring new light on the factors affecting thin metal leaves in general, which will be beneficial to all fields dealing with their analysis.

Engendering liminality: The experience of re-enchantment in wild woman workshops

According to Paul Heelas, new spiritualities radicalize the expressivist strand in modernity and, hence, not only affirm modern values but also react against them. In particular, they challenge the ‘bounded self’ as foundational for the modern being and progress. Charles Taylor, in discussing the emergence in modern times of ‘the buffered self’, points to three important changes: disenchantment, the loss of the complementary play between structure and anti-structure, and the replacement of the idea of cosmos with that of a neutral, mechanical universe. This article, through a detailed ethnographic study, explores how these changes are temporally counteracted in spiritual women workshops in North-West Europe focused on the trope of the ‘wild woman’. Moreover, it shows that these retreats bring into being ritual spaces of liminality, which have the potential to engender experiences of re-enchantment and/or give a new sense of interpersonal and cosmic connection.

Johann Adalbert Kratochwill and His Two ‘Indian’ Interiors in Bohemia

ABSTRACTWhile the work of western European lacquer workshops has been described in much detail, the lacquer workshops in central Europe have not been extensively researched. Nevertheless, they, too, reflected the taste for exotic themes and non-traditional techniques imported from the Orient with the same intensity starting in the late seventeenth century, when an increasing number of aristocratic residences in the region were decorated with exotic and iconographical unfamiliar depictions and interiors (featuring imported Oriental pieces or their more readily available copies). They were produced by local artists and craftsmen, who learned to translate motifs from contemporary literature or their own experience using themes from the past. In the same way as neighbouring Saxony had Martin Schnell or Berlin had Gérard Dagly, the territory of Austria had its own peerless lacquer master – Johann Adalbert Kratochwill, who did lacquerware with scenes in the chinoiserie style. In Bohemia Kratochwill was known under the Czech version of his name Jan Vojtěch Kratochvíl or Jan Vojtěch Kratochvíle. In archival sources his surname is sometimes referred to as Cratochwill. His activities are most closely linked with the aristocratic Sachsen-Lauenburg family, namely the Margrave of Baden-Baden, and the family residences in Schlackenwerth (Ostrov nad Ohří) and Rastatt, Germany. Somewhat later, his presence is documented in Vienna and then Prague. In Bohemia, Kratochwill was one of the artists who had a monopoly on exotic decorative elements. In 1712, he obtained an imperial privilege to use varnish paints, which until then had not been used in the Czech Lands. In 1718, he even acquired an imperial patent for a ten-year privilege to paint ‘in the Indian manner’ throughout Austria. His lacquer workshop is also interesting for the fact that it carried on after his death under the management of his widow, the painter Maria Anna Kratochvillin, who headed it for almost twenty years. Kratochwill decorated the Chinese Salon in the palace of prominent nobleman Wenzel Adalbert of Sternberg on the Prague Castle grounds. He drew inspiration from non-European models and emulated the principles of Japanese and Chinese lacquerware imported to Europe by the Dutch East India Company. It has recently been shown that the Oriental Salon in the Sternberg Palace might not have been the only work his workshop did on Bohemian territory. Another newly discovered product of Kratochwill's workshop is the dining hall decoration of the chateau in Zákupy/Reichstadt, North Bohemia. Its connection with this master had not been previously known, but a thorough study reveals a composition similar to that of the panels from the Sternberg Palace in Prague.

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies

Reviewed by: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies Gavin Hollis (bio) Surekha Davies. Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 355 pages + xxiv. $120.00. How can you map with authority places and peoples you have not seen? While perhaps less of a concern for mapmakers now (especially after "Earth-rise at Christmas," when the first photographs of earth were taken from lunar orbit in 1968), mapmakers at the emergence of "modern" global consciousness found themselves repeatedly confronted with this question. The proliferation of information from transoceanic exploration in the age of Columbus and De Gama was vast, the means by which this information disseminated were complex, and the information itself was, at times, haphazardly assembled and known to be inconsistently reliable. According to the dominant narrative in the history of cartography, it was the sixteenth century that gave rise to accurate, "modern" mapping: the new geography shed the trappings of older, symbolic forms, the vestiges of a prior epistemes, and embraced the geometrical accuracy of the grid. Yet we can see considerable vestiges of these older geographies (particularly in the continuous presence of the monsters of classical and medieval thought) evident in both maps' decorative apparatus and on the territory itself, well into the Age of Enlightenment. Jonathan Swift famously lampooned "geographers" who "With savage pictures fill their gaps." However, as Surekha Davies claims convincingly in Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters, "savage pictures" were far from fanciful, outmoded ornamentation. Mapmakers were highly attentive to the forms of knowledge circulating in sources that described the New World. Cognizant of the need to present information in as clear and distinct a way as possible, mapmakers streamlined [End Page 213] what were often diverse and dissonant accounts to construct visual code associated with particular regions. By establishing a visual grammar of human difference, which was often (but not always) shared across regional cartographic traditions from Amsterdam to Seville, mapmakers shaped European attitudes towards the New World, encouraged trade and settlement, and gave license to appropriation and exploitation. Iconic map illustrations of monsters, argues Davies, did profoundly ideological work—and this work had far-reaching consequences. We might imagine that ontological claims about categories of being should temper epistemological ones about maps' authority. Accounts of travel and exploration frequently look suspect to our eyes (especially in the wake of interpretive work by, among others, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose, and Mary C. Fuller). They were also questioned at the time, bedeviled as they were by the vagaries of eye-witness testimony (recorded at a remove from the events and/or with assistance from unnamed, untranslated local guides) and by the reputation of travelers. These travelers (to quote William Wood, New England's Prospect, 1634) "may lie by authority, because none can control them." Mapmakers were one stage further removed, located in their workshops in Europe: the travels of Gerard de Jode, Petrus Plancius, Jodocus Hondius, Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Abraham Ortelius, and Willem Blaeu (to name just a handful of the mapmakers whom Davies considers) were limited to Europe. We might thus expect their epistemological authority to be less convincing (indeed, this has often been how their knowledge has been treated in cartographic historiography). Yet, as Davies insists, sixteenth century "geographical thinking [was] underpinned by maps [and] shaped ideas about indigenous bodies and temperaments" (6). Map-readers (ranging from collectors to statesmen) took maps' geographical and ethnographic information as authoritative because it conformed to preconceptions about how climate, geography, and "spatial thinking" (44) shaped human existence. Maps' monsters bolstered the authority of eye-witness testimony about New World monstrosity by enabling viewers to visualize the logic of ethnic difference implicit in much travel writing. Rather than aberrations clumsily distributed on empty spaces, mapmakers applied geo-humoral logic whereby human difference was understood through geographical (and particularly latitudinal) variation, in a cosmography inherited from the ancient Greeks. The depiction of difference on a Ptolemaic grid both visualized and codified difference across continents. They tied together [End Page 214] received ideas of the body and bodily...

RDA Europe Workshop – From Planning to Action. Towards the Establishment of an Austrian Research Infrastructure (Wien, 23. November 2017)

Im November 2017 fand an der Universität Wien der RDA Europe Workshop „From Planning to Action. Towards the Establishment of an Austrian Research Infrastructure“ mit Unterstützung von RDA Europe, der Technischen Universität Wien und der Universität Wien statt. Es war der erste in Österreich abgehaltene Workshop in einer Reihe von europaweiten RDA Veranstaltungen. Ziel war es, über praktische Umsetzungen von RDA Empfehlungen, Implementierungsmaßnahmen der European Open Science Cloud und andere bedeutende Dateninitiativen zu diskutieren, um europäische Forschende und die Entwicklung von Infrastrukturen bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Die unterschiedlichen Themenbereiche bezogen sich auf transversale und disziplinspezifische Projekte, Datenzentren und Repositorien in Österreich. Die Vorträge reflektierten auch die europäische Perspektive von Forschungsdatenmanagement sowie politische und wissenschaftliche Initiativen von internationalen Organisationen. Ebenso wurden Empfehlungen von einzelnen Working Groups dargestellt und anhand von Projekten gezeigt, wie diese bereits lokal Anwendung finden. In der Veranstaltung wurde schließlich eine neu gegründete RDA Gruppe für Österreich angekündigt. Dieser RDA Austria Node wird, nach der formalen Konstituierungsphase, die österreichische Community innerhalb der neuen administrativen RDA-Strukturen repräsentieren.

28th Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop

This volume includes selected papers from MME 2017 – the 28th Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop. MME dates all the way back to 1989, when 25 participants gathered to hear about trends in the new and emerging field of microsystems technology in Twente, The Netherlands. In 2000, MME was held in Uppsala for the first time, and, seventeen years on from that gathering, we were delighted to welcome MME back to us.Forty high quality submissions were accepted for the conference from authors affiliated to 13 countries and a selection of those are collected here. The works span all aspects of MEMS and microsystems technology, including design and fabrication, simulation and modelling, experimental evaluation, and commercial translation.We acknowledge the important contributions made by our four invited speakers, who discussed exciting recent developments and their future visions for microsystems technology.Our conference Gala Dinner was held at Norrlands nation, one of the typical old student clubs of Uppsala. With the strong investments in new facilities, Uppsala University is both the oldest and the newest University in Sweden, and ranked the highest of the comprehensive Universities of our nation. Being in the cradle of Sweden and an old University City, unique cultural treasures and an exciting history can be found in this city of knowledge and inspiration. Uppsala has retained its small-town charm while offering a big city’s selection of shops, restaurants and other entertainment.Uppsala University has received generous support from industrial partners and the Institute of Physics. We sincerely thank them for their assistance with the hosting of MME 2017.Many thanks also to the Programme Committee, our Local Organizing Committee for their assistance with event logistics, and to the management and staff of Academic Conferences.We hope that you will enjoy this Proceedings, and look forward to seeing you in Uppsala, Sweden, for MME 2017.Klas Hjort and Maria TenjeLocal Co-Chairs – MME 2017

10th IFTTA Europe Workshop in Helsinki

10th IFTTA Europe Workshop in Helsinki

State of the art diagnostic criteria of severe periodontitis

Periodontitis could be categorized as mild, moderate, and severe according to the severity of the disease. This categorizing system could also be used together with other classification systems. The present article introduced the status about the case definition of severe periodontitis, including the standard of case definitions for surveillance of periodontitis reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the consensus report on the definition of periodontitis case for use in risk factor research by Europe workshop. A consensus on the state of the art definition of severe periodontitis for use in clinical work was gained base on the expertise of Chinese Society of Periodontology, Chinese Association of Stomatology. The background of this consensus and the significance of the criteria for the case definition were discussed.

27th Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop

This volume includes selected papers from MME 2016 - the 27th Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop. MME dates all the way back to 1989, when 25 participants gathered to hear about trends in the new and emerging field of microsystems technology in Twente, The Netherlands. In 2001, MME was held in Cork for the first time, and, fifteen years on from that gathering, we were delighted to welcome MME back to Ireland once more. 60 high quality submissions were received from authors affiliated to 19 countries, and a selection of those accepted for the conference are collected here. The works span all aspects of MEMS and microsystems technology, including design and fabrication, simulation and modelling, experimental evaluation, and commercial translation. We acknowledge the important contributions made by our four invited speakers, who discussed exciting recent developments and their future visions for microsystems technology. Our conference Gala Dinner was held at The Old Midleton Distillery, home of the world- famous Jameson Irish whiskey, where delegates took a guided tour along the old distillery trail through mills, maltings, stillhouses, warehouses and kilns - and, of course, participated in an Irish whiskey tasting tutorial! The Tyndall National Institute and Cork Institute of Technology have received generous support from a number of agencies and industrial partners, including Science Foundation Ireland, Failte Ireland, and the Institute of Physics. We sincerely thank them for their assistance with the hosting of MME 2016. Thanks also to Programme Committee, our Local Organizing Committee for their assistance with event logistics, and to the management and staff of the CIT Cork School of Music. We hope that you enjoy this Proceedings, and look forward to seeing you in Uppsala, Sweden, for MME 2017.