The “Workshop on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases” took place September 30th to October 2nd , 2014 in Berlin  as a joint meeting of the German Society of Medical Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA) and the “Workshop on Tick-borne Diseases” of the National Reference Laboratory for Q Fever of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut. This joint meeting was organized by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA) - Federal Environment Agency, Section IV 1.4 – Health pests and their control, in close cooperation with the German Society for Medical Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), National Reference Laboratory for Q Fever and the Freie Universität Berlin – Free University Berlin, Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine.