On 18 June 2020 a meeting of the CAROTS consortium took place entirely online for the first time. Next to sharing the latest status of each of the CAROTS work packages, how to move the project’s midterm 150-person conference on 15 September 2020 online was discussed. In breakout groups the partners discussed challenges, achievements and results of the so far 29 in-depth interviews with Commercial Research Organisations in 14 different countries.