On April 9, 2024, the ECPD officially launched its activities with a kick-off event at the Festsaal of Humboldt University Berlin. The event featured an opening talk by Martin Rennert, Executive Board Chair of the Einstein Foundation, and marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in family and health research, as dozens of researchers from the ECPD network came together to celebrate the start of six years of cutting edge family and health research.