EEBST 2018 took place on July 18-19th, 2018 at the Dokuz Eylül University Continuing Education Center (DESEM) with 150 attendees from 55 different institutions covering 14 countries.  We had three  invited speakers; Beatriz Vicoso, Robert Ptacnik and Virginie Courtier-Orgozozo. We also had a 2-day workshop, "Community Analysis ans Spatial Statistics Using R", prior to the symposium lead by Robert Ptacnik. On behalf of everyone, we would like to thank them for their invaluable contributions both to the workshop and to the symposium. See you next year for EEBST 2019 in Ankara.