Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to the 4th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS) 2016 taking place on *Saturday 3 September* during ECCB 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands. The ESCS is a biennial interdisciplinary symposium that brings together students and young researchers from computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, and related fields. This symposium offers you a great opportunity to present your research to an international audience, get insights into hot topics and newly developed methods and build a network within the computational biology community of Europe. We are pleased to announce our confirmed keynote speakers *Kris Laukens* (University of Antwerp, Belgium), and *Nuria Lopez-Bigas* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain). The symposium includes ice-breaking, *oral presentations*, *keynote talks*, *poster presentations* and an *evening social event* that offer you the opportunity to get to know fellow young scientists from all over Europe in a casual setting. Abstract submission will open on Monday 25th April 2016. Please visit our website http://escs2016.iscbsc.org/ regularily as more information will be announced soon. For registration details, please visit http://www.eccb2016.org/registration/. We welcome students and young researchers from all areas of computational biology to join our community. Please help us spread the word by sharing the event flyer (please find it attached), and using the hashtag #ESCS16 on social media. We look forward to welcome you in The Hague! Annika Jacobsen and Kevin Schwahn, chair and co-chair, ESCS 2016