The mission of the Research Institute SHARE also entails educating and training young researchers (in particular our PhD students and the students in the Research Master ‘Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology ‘) to become independent health researchers. The institute, therefore, participates in the Graduate School of Medical Sciences (GSMS). For PhD students extensive information on their training programma is available at the GSMS website. Senior researchers of SHARE contribute to the education programme with their research experience and expertise.