70 science and industry partners met – together with the members of the research advisory board and the reference user group – at the National University of Ireland, Galway (25-27th of March) for the very successful annual CERES consortium meeting. Three productive meeting days were filled with progress reports, scientific talks, hands-on workshops and strategy development. Highlights included the presentation of “CERES storylines”, sector- and region-specific activities which bring together CERES physical, ecological and economic science and series of presentations by industry partners and members of our research advisory board on stakeholder engagement.