Natalia Ivanova, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication In a year marked by COVID-19, the IAEA provided support to its Member States related to the pandemic while also delivering its planned services – some of them online. This article summarizes some of the key events and achievements of this very unusual year. It was not all COVID-19 though. A first group of 100 female students from around the world has been awarded fellowships under a new initiative, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP), to help close the gender gap in nuclear science and technology. With 2020 marking 10 years of the Peaceful Uses Initiative, we celebrated the over 300 projects and more than 150 countries that have benefited from the peaceful application of nuclear technologies through this initiative. Read the latest issue of the IAEA Bulletin on the achievements of PUI and plans for scaling up the initiative in coming years.