In the first week of July, 2016 the Orchestration Path held its annual retreat in the monastery St. Marienthal (Ostritz). The PhD students, postdocs and investigators met and discussed recent developments and results achieved, worked on collaborative projects and exchanged ideas for future cooperations. Overall, it was a very intensive week with inspiring talks by the investitors, an invited Talk by Reinhard Berger of the Molecular Functional Materials Group on Synthetic Carbon Structures for Integration on the System Level, many fruitful discussions within and outside the working sessions completed by a boat&bike tour as team building event.