The BSPC Standing Committee held its summer meeting in the picturesque university city of Tartu on 27 May. The meeting was chaired by Laine Randjärv, BSPC President 2012-2013 and former mayor of Tartu. The agenda was primarily devoted to the preparations for the 22nd BSPC in Pärnu 25-27 August, to initial deliberations over the content and format of the Conference Resolution, and to the scope of work of the planned new BSPC Working Group on Innovation. The meeting also included study visits at the University of Tartu, the popular science centre AHAA, and the Estonian Genome Centre of the Uninversity of Tartu.