The Swedish Research Council (VR) has prolonged the funding of NDPIA until 2020. Currently there are 234 NDPIA members (156 PhD students and 78 postdocs) and several upcoming courses are in the pipe-line for 2017 – please access https://ndpia.se/current_events/ for information on future activities (more to come). Also please forward www.ndpia.se and information about the programme to relevant contacts.