The 20th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2019) took place from Sunday, August 18th, to Thursday, August 22nd, in Alicante, Spain. Kelly Nisbet presented about her work about factors that influence attaining proficiency in English. Victor Kuperman presented about the Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO), a collaborative international project that addresses the need for comparable cross-linguistic eye-tracking data on reading.