The Swiss Autophagy Meeting 2024 is an interactive meeting allowing Swiss doctoral students, young post-docs and junior group leaders to meet, to learn and discuss research on autophagy. The main purpose of this meeting is 1) to introduce and explain the basics of good autophagy research to doctoral students/post-docs as well as researchers who wish to do new research on autophagy, 2) to allow doctoral students, young post-docs and junior group leaders to present and discuss their research results in front of experts in the field, and 3) to promote exchanges and discussions around new techniques recently developed to study the autophagy.