The 8th International Conference "The Use of R in Official Statistics – uRos2020" to be held in Vienna, Austria on 6 to 8 May 2020. Side events include the unconfUROS hackathon and an R crash course.

The call for abstracts for presentations and tutorials is published on the conference's website www.urosconf.org. Submission deadline is 31 December 2019.

We have already fixed two inspiring keynotes:

• Isabel Molina Peralta with “Small area estimation using R, with application to poverty mapping.”

and

• Matthias Templ with “Functional data analysis in Bayes Spaces with an Application to spatio-temporal population data”.

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We look forward to meeting you at the conference.