The first version of our workshop on “Analysis of metagenetic data for macroecology” took place at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, between the 2nd and the 8th of October 2019. It was a great pleasure to welcome to Cyprus 30 participants from all over the world, representing 22 different institutions and 14 different nationalities! Here are some of the comments we received from the participants through an anonymous post-workshop survey:

• “Thank you for a great workshop and organizing all the extra experiences! Will highly recommend this workshop back in my home institution!”
• “Great job! I deeply appreciated your efforts for the workshop. I learned a lot. Thank you :)”
• “It was a pleasure to be able to participate in this workshop which has been inspiring, bright, energetic and challenging fun!”
• “This course was for me a magnificent way to introduce myself in the world of metagenomics. I would have appreciated to focus the course in less topics, because it was difficult for me to jump from one topic to the other, especially when everything was so interesting.”
• “Many thanks for having put together such a great course! Very glad to have participated!”​