Antonia Wallbraun and Elisabeth Dietel organised a training course at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on 8 January. The event was entitled "Medicine and pharmacology for chemistry lessons - interesting contexts between everyday life and research" and included a lecture by Prof Dagmar Fischer, who is also involved in the PolyTarget Collaborative Research Centre. We would like to thank our colleagues from Erlangen-Nuremberg for their interest, the invitation and the enriching training day!