The Organizing Committee presented the preliminary scientific program of the 42nd SEEP Congress that will be held virtually on October 14, 15 and 16, 2020. We will not be able to receive you in Zaragoza as we would have liked, but the spirit of meeting of different cultures and traditions that our city has historically had will be present on those days through telematic interconnection.

This first virtual SEEP Congress is also a challenge and an opportunity to explore new ways of training and participation of members and congressmen. We encourage you to register and actively participate in the sessions either live or through other digital forms of communication. With the horizon of advancing in the knowledge of our discipline, SEEP begins a new training path this year. We have prepared a program with the desire to cover the most relevant aspects of our specialty and we hope they are of interest to you. Throughout the Congress, various topics of basic and clinical endocrinology will be addressed by speakers of accredited national and international prestige.

The motto of the Congress is formed by the four words that give meaning to our daily activity "training, assistance, teaching, research." Doing our job well requires a constant update of knowledge to improve the health and quality of life of patients. Biomedical research has the ultimate goal of improving clinical practice and transmitting knowledge to new generations must be part of our daily work. Our objective is for the Congress to be a stimulus to deepen our knowledge and understanding of childhood endocrine diseases in order to exercise our professional commitment to children, their environment and society at the best possible level.

With the hope that this Congress is more than ever a meeting point beyond the virtual, receive an affectionate greeting from the Organizing Committee.