To prepare health professionals for their diverse tasks in the future, competent educators, innovators, and educational scientists are needed. To meet this need, numerous postgraduate study programs have been developed in recent years to qualify educators in the health professions, which are increasingly multi-professional oriented (Health Professions Education). To date, the academic debate on these study programs is predominantly at a descriptive level; what is lacking is a reflexive analysis of this development. The aim of the nextHPE project is to initiate an international comparative analysis of study programs with focus on Health Professions Education and to promote international exchange on this topic.