 Another meeting took place in Budapest in the following year and the first MECO conference was organized 1974 in Vienna.Founding fathers of the conference included
physicists, experimentalists as well as theorists, doing, especially, research on ferroelectricity, like Robert Blinc from Jugoslavia and K. Alex Müller from
Switzerland.In order to develop this concept in the mid 70’s and 80’s of the 20th century, the original intention was to have each year a conference, alternating on either side of the iron curtain.