Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar (HRRS 2025)

7-12 September 2025 | Kloster Irsee, Germany
Empowering child and adolescent mental health through evidence-based approaches
 

Background

The Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar (HRRS) Series is a prestigious international seminar series organized under the auspices of the IACAPAP (International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions). The format is a 5-day residential research training workshop for 24 emerging child and adolescent mental health researchers, organized in the country that will host the next IACAPAP Congress. The seminar combines teaching/discussion and mentored work on research projects. Topics include research design, presentation skills, review etc. The main purpose of the seminars is to inspire young and emerging researchers to do research in child and adolescent mental health and build a community of CAMH researchers. The product of the research workshops is submission of an abstract for the next IACAPAP World Congress in Hamburg, Germany, from 1-4 July 2026.

The 2025 Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar (HRRS2025)

The 2026 IACAPAP Congress will be held in Hamburg, Germany. For this reason, the HRRS2025 will take place in the same country. Successful HRRS Fellows will be joined by a team of international mentors (Prof. Bruno Falissard, Prof. Christina Schwenck, Prof. Maretha de Jonge, Prof. Carmen Schroder, Dr. Anna Ordonez and Prof. Petrus de Vries).

Dates and location of the Seminar

The seminar will be held from 7-12 September 2025, in the Monastery of Kloster Irsee, in Bavaria, near Munich.

Sponsorship

We are delighted that the IACAPAP Conference Organisers will be sponsoring the accommodation and subsistence of HRRS fellows. Successful candidates are required to seek sponsorship for travel to and from Munich from their home institution and countries.

Who is eligible to apply?

The HRRS aims to support early-career, emerging child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals who are active in research. For the 2025 Seminar, we will prioritise candidates who are either currently in training at institution in the Europe region or who have completed training at a European institution in the last 3 years. We will be particularly interested to have a mix of candidates from across Europe and across professional backgrounds/disciplines. Please note that candidates who have previously participated in one of the IACAPAP Early Career Programmes (including the HRRS or the Donald J Cohen Fellowship Programme) will not be considered. Applicants in senior clinical or academic posts, and those with extensive research experience will also not be considered. Candidates from outside the Europe region will be considered, but they will need to provide a clear motivation indicating intention and/or evidence of working or collaborating with child & adolescent mental health teams or individuals in European countries.

Nomination Process

Universities, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Organisations and Clinical Units are invited to nominate candidates for participation. Priority will be given to IACAPAP member countries.

Please submit the following:

By the candidate:

• a motivation letter explaining why you would be a good candidate to attend the seminar
• an outline of your past and current research activities, including publications, presentations at conferences etc.
• CV of candidate

By the candidate’s institution/university/department:

• letter of support from the candidate’s University, Department or Clinical Unit. Where more than one candidate is nominated, the nominating body is asked to rank their nominated candidates.

A panel of reviewers will select candidates from all applications received. The selection panel will aim to include candidates from a range of European countries as well as some from outside Europe and across child & adolescent mental health disciplines.

Deadline for applications

All nominations/applications need to be submitted electronically to the IACAPAP Congress Team and should be received by 15 January 2025. All supporting documents need to be sent by E-Mail to hrrs2025@cpo-hanser.de. No late or incomplete applications will be considered.

Successful candidates will be informed by the end of February 2025. The IACAPAP Congress Office will support candidates with visa letters for the HRRS.
 

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