30 June 2025. The UK BootStRaP team were delighted to host BootStRaP consortium members and other international collaborators at the Tewinbury Farm Hotel in Hertfordshire, UK, on 26-27 June 2025 for a Global Engagement in Problematic Usage of the Internet Network Meeting.

Naomi Fineberg and Natalie Hall gave a comprehensive update on the progress of BootStRaP phase 1, and Hans-Jürgen Rumpf provided an overview of the planned phase 2 interventions.

Matthias Brand, Julius Burkauskas, Murat Yücel, Chang Liu and Lucy Albertella told us about their planned and ongoing work already built on BootStRaP.

Finally, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Marc Potenza, Konstantinos Ioannidis and Jeremy Solly led brainstorming discussions on future studies that will take forward our learning from BootStRaP and improve our understanding of how to identify and treat problematic usage of the internet.

Prepared by Jeremy Solly 

Konstantinos Ioannidis later wrote in his LinkedIn feed: 

🧠☀️💡It was great to meet with the team at Global Meeting Problematic Use of the Internet Net&Me BootStRaP to discuss amazing progress that has been made on the ground for our Horizon2022 research and strategize next steps.

~2,000 participants young people across 9 European countries 🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Machine Learning modelling based on behavioral cognitive characteristics and mobile sensing informing allocation to preventative interventions
Young people ambassadors co design. Public health discussion to create a safe online space for young people and everyone.

I am extremely grateful to all our colleagues and collaborators across Europe and beyond. Especially the leadership team at University of Hertfordshire, Prof Naomi Fineberg for the invitation. Honored to have chaired brainstorming session with Prof Hans Juergen-Rumpf (Cologne), Prof Marc Potenza (Yale) among many others. Shout out to Natalie Hall and Dr Jeremy Solly for splendid organization thanks 🙏 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 and hope to see soon those who were not able to make it this time.