The EFMC Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium is an initiative of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC). After a successful first edition organised in Lisbon in September 2014, five further meetings have been organised in Antwerp (2015), Manchester (2016), Vienna (2017), Ljubljana (2018) and Athens (2019). The 7th edition will be organised in connection with the EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC 2020), and will take place in Basel on September 10-11, 2020.