The two-day workshop aims to inform all potential users about the capabilities of the recently inaugerated HElmholtz-SEsame beamline HESEB, and to foster exchanges and networking between soft X-ray users of SESAME. It will feature lectures on soft X-ray techniques and applications, as well as the first reports on stays at European synchrotron facilities by researchers from the SESAME Members having received support for this from the HESEB project.