Dear IUPB Member Societies and our wider community of photobiology/photobiochemistry colleagues,

We are entering a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic but we still have much to be thankful for, not least the on-site joint congress with the European Society for Photobiology in August 2019. Just 3 months after the close of the joint congress the first reports of the virus were announced. Apart from the restrictions on physical movement, as often happens in critically challenging times, increased human connections and innovations have occurred – both personal and scientific, and with many online conferences, and family and colleague to colleague virtual meetings.

As you know the next big event for IUPB is its 18th International Congress on Photobiology to be held in Perth, Western Australia, 25^th to 30^th August 2024. Several of us in the IUPB Executive Committee and the emerging congress organisational committees have been discussing some interesting ways in which to bring scientists together in the years between the IUPB congresses as well as to be a part of making each congress an outstanding success. I would like to share some of these ideas with you and to ask for your feedback.

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