The Fifth ANDREA Training Course was held on June 25th, 2016, in the form of a satellite event to the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) in Geneva, Switzerland. The training course, organized by partners BIND-UdA and TUIL, focused on the latest scientific advancements of the ANDREA project. Talks were given on: hardware achievements (Prof. Fonseca/UPORTO; Prof. Haueisen/TUIL; Dr. Zanow/EEM), methods for the pre-processing of dry EEG signals (Prof. Comani /BIND-UdA; Dr. Graichen/TUIL), applications of dry electrodes (Prof. Bertollo/ BIND-UdA; Dr. Schinaia/Villa Serena; Dr. Fiedler/TUIL), future perspectives with dry electrodes (invited talks by Dr. van de Laar/ ANT Neuro b.v., Enschede, The Netherlands and by Prof. Dudink/Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Attendance at the Fifth ANDREA Training Course external to the ANDREA network mainly included 26 doctoral and post-doctoral students, researchers and professors from Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Russian Federation, Netherlands, Poland, USA, China, Korea and Japan.