The 2025 Research Academy takes place on 27-28 June 2025 in Strasbourg at the Nouvel Hôpital Civil. The theme is "The effects of psychological trauma on the brain: from mechanisms to early intervention". We are delighted to announce the confirmed speakers: 

• Professor Eric Bui, University of Caen, France: Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: From Prediction to Evidence-Based Treatments
• Professor Vera Clemens, University Hospital Ulm, Germany: Adverse childhood experiences - consequences and approaches to action
• Professor Andrea Danese, King’s College London, UK: Childhood adversity and psychopathology: Bridging from population science to clinical practice
• Professor Isabelle M Mansuy, University and ETH Zürich, Switzerland: Epigenetic inheritance: How traumatic experiences in early life can affect descendants via the germline

Find out more about our speakers here.

The aim of the Research Academy is to promote research excellence and collaborative work among young clinician scientists in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP). ESCAP wishes to support early careers by promoting training, encouraging collaborations and by providing a forum to share experiences with senior world leading researchers. 

The 2-day meeting will be chaired by Professors Paul Klauser and Alexis Revet, two clinician-scientists under the auspice of the ESCAP Academic Division. Attendees are asked to collaborate within a network after the meeting to tackle a research question at the European level (see some examples here: Revet et al. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatr 2018; Barrett et al. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatr 2020; Revet et al. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2021a; Revet et al. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2021b).

Registration for the Research Academy is free. Attendees will have to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Requirements are:

• < 40 years old
• Trainee or < 5 years after completion of training in CAP or Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Ideal but not mandatory: at least one first-authored paper published or in press in a peer reviewed journal indexed in Pubmed
• Fluency in English

How to apply:

• Submission of an abstract for a short presentation of your research
• Submission of a cover letter highlighting your academic perspectives

Please submit your application via this Google Forms link before the deadline of Friday 31 January 2025. Successful applicants will be informed before the Early Bird Deadline for the ESCAP 2025 Congress closes on 7 March 2025.

The Research Academy takes place prior to the ESCAP 2025 Congress and we strongly encourage applicants to also consider submitting an abstract for presentation at the congress. Abstract submission is currently open and closes on 2nd December 2024. For all details and online submission, please visit the Congress Website.

Accommodation

Attendees are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Please, note that the Research Academy takes place at the Nouvel Hôpital Civil in the city centre and the ESCAP congress takes place in the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès (Place de Bordeaux).

Some options near the venue:

• graffalgar, 17 rue déserte, close to the train station
• The People Hostel Strasbourg, 7 Rue de la Krutenau, in the Manufacture de tabac
• Ibis Strasbourg Centre Historique, 3*, 7 rue de Molsheim
• Hôtel Couvent du Franciscain Centre ville, 3*, 18, Rue du Faubourg de Pierre