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Grupo Joven de la SEI (GJSEI) or Young Group of the Spanish Society for Immunology was founded in 2021 as a platform to support the young members of the Spanish Society for Immunology (SEI), encouraging the participation of the junior members in the academic activities promoted by SEI. The launch of the group arose from the collaboration of the SEI and the young European Federation of Immunological Societies (yEFIS) [1]. The term “young immunologists” involves an extensive range of academic and professional stages, from university students to medical residents and doctorates, all having in common immunology as a cornerstone in their educational and professional pathway. During this training period, healthcare workers and researchers face diverse challenges that could be common to other peers in an equal professional stage (e.g., grants applications and searching for job opportunities, training courses, and conferences). Thus, GJSEI aims to help young immunologists with issues that could appear during their professional training, creating a network that allows them to communicate with the group members and the SEI. To this date, the GJSEI has 104 members, who are distributed in different stages of the professional and academic pathway (Fig. 1), with Ph.D. candidates and hospital immunological residents being the two most numerous groups. Since its launch, the GJSEI has been involved in various activities (Fig. 2) summarized in this article.