The first ADMIRE workshop took place on May 16-17^th, 2013 at Bäckaskog Slott in Skåne. The main purpose of this first workshop was for the ADMIRE members to get to know each other and to get to know a little bit about each others research interests. To make this happen each of the participants gave a brief, 5-10 minutes, presentation about themselves, their microscopy interests and their research. In addition to this, Dr Peter Ekström gave a presentation entitled: Advanced optical microscopy (so what is "advanced") and Prof Anders Mikkelsen gave a presentation entitled: Microscopy across borders.

30 members of ADMIRE participated in this workshop that started at lunchtime on Thursday the 16^th and ended in the afternoon on Friday the 17^th. In addition to the scientific program some networking activities followed by dinner was organized on Thursday evening.