From 29th to 30th October, the Kick-Off Camp of the TReND doctoral network took place at the University of Münster. We are happy to have had a successful and productive official start of the doctoral training programme with the TReND fellows and their supervisors.  Of the twelve TReND fellows, seven fellows came to Münster with their supervisor(s), while three participated remotely. The kick-off camp was used to work on a theoretical framework for the research of the TReND consortium, but also for getting to know each other and growing as a consortium, which everyone really enjoyed!