I am happy that the Dutch Embassy cares about its citizens and has organized this event for Dutch Academics in the UK. The event is coordinated by the Dutch Embassy in London together with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, and the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW). Not only can we discuss the latest on brexit, and how to respond to/deal with the fall out of this disaster, the event also hopes to build an active Dutch academic network in the UK. As the lead scientist in BonLab, I am very much looking forward to this.