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 an...