In EPI-AD, academic partners collaborate intensively to offer a well-defined and balanced research and training programme to young researchers. The benefits for the participating young researchers are: 1) exposure to different academic partners which will create a balanced and sustainable network for the rest of their career; 2) participation in different workshops and meetings will broaden their scope of different knowledge resources; 3) access to state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise from leading scientists with academic, clinical and industrial backgrounds; 4) an international multi-disciplinary training environment which is an optimal preparation for an international (European) research career; 5) high quality guidance which will leads to the optimal use of talents of researchers; 6) a strong sense of European citizenship which encourages researchers to work in an international (European) context; 7) the research environment offering the latest technologies and methodologies.