This workshop is a series of meetings organized by the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Torino, Italy. It focuses on the potential of Superconductivity in the field of radiation detection and is particularly timely and important. The proceedings of the workshop highlights research on Superconducting Detectors for Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Superconducting Tunneling Junctions, Superheated Superconducting Granules among other topics.