From 26th September to 1st October 2016 the annual meeting of the European Seismological Commission working group “Seismic phenomena associated with volcanic activity” has been held on Stromboli volcano at the Hotel “La Sirenetta”. This year’s workshop was themed “25 years advancing volcano seismology in a wider volcanological context”. After the foundation of the working group at Copenhagen (DK) in 1990, the 2016 conference was the 25th anniversary event, which followed previous workshops [http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/esc_wg/] that took place in: 1991 - St. Roman, Black Forest, DE 2004 - La Palma, Canary Islands, ES 1992 - Stromboli, IT 2005 - St Claude, Guadeloupe, FR 1993 - Lanzarote, Canary Islands, ES 2006 - Olot, Catalunya, ES 1994 - Nicolosi (Etna), IT 2007 - Nesbud, IS 1996 -...