The NEPS conference series of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) brings together scientists from different disciplines and from different stages of their academic careers to discuss current findings in educational research. The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) sets the thematic framework with its seven panel cohorts covering the entire life span and with its broad range of topics – from competence development to educational processes in different learning environments to educational decisions and social inequality to returns to education, and to motivational and personality-related aspects.