Sense about Science EU is launching in July 2016 and we are going to mark that at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference in Manchester. We’d like to invite you to join us, with researchers, policy makers and media from Europe and the wider world, on 26th July. It matters that the rules and regulations that govern our lives are based on sound evidence, it matters that decision makers are accountable to the public for what they say, and that researchers and citizens play the fullest role in achieving that, wherever they are from. That is the mission of Sofie Vanthournout, our new SAS EU director and she is looking forward to sharing it with you.