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Affiliations:
1) Computational Neurosciences, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
2) Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain
3) Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, University of Warwick, UK
4) Centre for mathematical Plasma Astropyhsics CmPA, KU-Leuven, Belgium
5) NASA´s Marschall Space Flight Center, USA
6) Colombia University, New York, USA
7) Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota
8) Institute of Physics, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria
9) Solar Physics & Space Plasma Research Center (SP2RC), University of Sheffield, UK

Abstract:
The Sun is our interesting host star due to its active atmosphere which is driven
by the dynamics of the present magnetic fields. The best observed smallest, yet detectable, magnetic structuring element is the so-called Magnetic Bright Point (MBP) which corresponds to the cross-section of a kG strong magnetic small-scale flux tube in the photosphere.
While MBPs might seem on a quick look to appear to be a dull and simple subject to be studied compared to large-scale features like sunspots, this is totally untrue when one takes note of the processes and phenomena they are involved in. These phenomena span from the creation and guiding of various types of MHD waves
from the lower solar atmosphere into the corona, over magnetic reconnection events creating spicules and mass flows within the atmosphere, to end up in the large scale structuring of the solar atmosphere, e.g., in coronal holes.
In this contribution we want to shed some light on all of the mentioned topics and their connection to MBPs.