A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society by Timmis, K, Hallsworth, JE, McGenity, TJ, Armstrong, R, Colom, MF, Karahan, ZC, Chavarría, M, Bernal, P, Boyd, ES, Ramos, JL, Kaltenpoth, M, Pruzzo, C, Clarke, G, López-Garcia, P, Yakimov, MM, Perlmutter, J, Greening, C, Eloe-Fadrosh, E, Verstraete, W, Nunes, OC, Kotsyurbenko, O, Nikel, PI, Scavone, P, Häggblom, MM, Lavigne, R, Le Roux, F, Timmis, JK, Parro, V, Michán, C, García, JL, Casadevall, A, Payne, SM, Frey, J, Koren, O, Prosser, JI, Lahti, L, Lal, R, Anand, S, Sood, U, Offre, P, Bryce, CC, Mswaka, AY, Jores, J, Kaçar, B, Blank, LM, Maaßen, N, Pope, PB, Banciu, HL, Armitage, J, Lee, SY, Huang, W