Our mission is to advance relationships between key stakeholders (academia, industry, government to general public) within the synthetic biology community between all levels of organisation, from student to politician, from professor to public. We at SynbioNL believe that synthetic biology is the future of human progress. The Netherlands is ripe for a platform that can foster collaboration between different stakeholders, in order to achieve: Representation in the global landscape Advance this technology Encourage discourse within the public and political spheres