“…One way to foster early research involvement is to gain the interest of medical students prior to them graduating from In Europe, trainee-led organisations, such as the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) (Schulze, Treichel, 2002) and the European Psychiatric Association -Early Career Psychiatrists Committee (EPA -ECPC) (Hanon et al, 2015), have been successful in promoting research among junior psychiatrists in recent years, and formed dedicated task forces (Kuzman et al, 2009). Several European-wide early-career psychiatrist-driven studies have been carried out completely independently leading to high-quality publications, where all the co-authors were junior researchers (Koelkebeck et al, 2015, Kuzman et al, 2017, Jovanovic et al, 2016, Pinto da Costa et al, 2017.…”