diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
index 2b1114a61b..897bef1d11 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/models/trainer.py
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ class Trainer(TrainerIO):
     # -----------------------------
     def fit(self, model):
         self.model = model
+        model.trainer = self
 
         # transfer data loaders from model
         self.__get_dataloaders(model)
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/root_module/root_module.py b/pytorch_lightning/root_module/root_module.py
index ab49a9a1af..319af7d6ab 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/root_module/root_module.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/root_module/root_module.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class RootModule(GradInformation, ModelIO, OptimizerConfig, ModelHooks):
         self.overfit = hparams.overfit
         self.gradient_clip = hparams.gradient_clip
         self.num = 2
+        self.trainer = None
 
         # track if gpu was requested for checkpointing
         self.on_gpu = False
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4ae0236c04..1d049abec2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 # http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/05/25/python-packaging/
 setup(
     name="pytorch-lightning",
-    version='0.1.dev13',
+    version='0.1.dev14',
     description="The Keras for ML researchers using PyTorch",
     author="William Falcon",
     author_email="waf2107@columbia.edu",