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It is our pleasure to welcome you to this year’s Young Environmental Scientists (YES) meeting. The first YES meeting was organized at the University of Koblenz-Landau in 2009 on the initiative of the Student Advisory Council of SETAC Europe (SAC). Since then, the YES meetings have remained the most important activity of the SAC. We are happy to see the YES meeting concept grow and develop throughout the years – in 2011 in Aachen, 2013 in Krakow, 2015 in Petnica, 2016 in Gainesville – for the first time in the United States, in 2017 in Stockholm and 2018 in Madison. YES meetings gather students from all SETAC geographical units, and have become a truly global SETAC event. Since 2016, YES meetings alternate between the US and Europe, a concept that may hopefully be extended to other Geographical Units in the future. We are happy to welcome students from 30 countries worldwide at this year’s edition at Ghent University. Based on experiences and feedback from previous meeting participants, the YES meeting 2019 will offer a mix of established and innovative concepts. We will open the YES meeting with a workshop touching upon our meeting motto “From test results to decision making: Driving environmental policy from the heart of Europe”, with experts from the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA), ARCHE Consulting and the University of Birmingham. Again this year, we will offer free training courses for all participants and have the opportunity to listen to career talks from experienced professionals. The Scientific Committee has carefully selected the reviewed abstracts and allocated them either to platform or poster presentations. One important part of YES meetings is providing time for discussions and to receive feedback from your peers through e.g. several poster socials. The meeting organizers did a great effort to provide funding for the meeting that is free of charge for the participants and also to provide travel grants to the students who needed them the most. It would not have been possible without the assistance of all of the meeting partners and supporters. We would like to express our gratitude towards the SETAC units Welcome from the SAC 5 and branches, SETAC Europe office, companies, universities, and research institutes. Thank you for supporting future generations of scientists! The SAC celebrates its 13th foundation anniversary this year and we would like to say a special “Thank you!” to all the members and chairs who worked hard to represent and support the student community of SETAC Europe until now. The student community of SETAC finally became global through close collaboration with students from all other SETAC geographical units - especially the North America Student Advisory Council (NASAC). We wish you a productive and exciting conference and hope you will go home enriched by new experience, friends, ideas, and perspectives. Have a good time!