TiBE2020 is organized by the CompBio and ApplEcol research groups, and it will be devoted to the methods and applications of METABARCODING AND METAGENOMICS in biodiversity, ecological and environmental research. At the same time, TiBE2020 will be the closing meeting of the ERA Chair project ENVMETAGEN – Capacity Building at InBIO for Research and Innovation Using Environmental Metagenomics, funded by the European Commission.