On behalf of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), we would like to welcome you to the ESPEN Congress 2022, which will be held for the 4th time in Vienna. After two years of virtual events, we hopefully have a chance to meet in person again. The global pandemic affected not just our health, but also the way we live, work, and preform education. We live in the times of a “brave new world”.