Encouraging stocktaking after almost 2.5 years of the study: the entire BaCoM study team met at the Institute of General Practice to discuss the recruitment status, initial results trends and analyses. Many thanks to our project partners, without whom a study of this scale with 1,500 respondents would not have been possible: Prof. Dr. Gagyor, Institute of General Practice, University Hospital Würzburg and team, Prof. Dr. Kühlein, Director of the University Hospital Erlangen and team, Prof. Dr. Hausen and team, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich, Prof. Nassehi and team, Institute of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University and C. Janke, Institute for Tropical Medicine at the LMU Munich.