VERDI is a European research consortium focusing on coronavirus in children and pregnant women. The agenda for the assembly included interesting presentations about the planned, ongoing and published studies from the cohorts in the four different working groups, as well as presentations from invited external speakers highlighting the larger context of the VERDI project. Angela Lupattelli attended virtually and presented our plans for projects within the working groups for vaccine effectiveness and maternal-infant studies. Hedvig Nordeng also gave a virtual presentation about the CONSIGN project. In the evenings there were dinners with good opportunities for mingling with the other VERDI collaborators.