Learning for impact in a changing world

Societal change, whether gradual or disruptive in character, has an impact on the kind of research expertise and knowledge which professional organisations, communities and learners need. At the same time, with their research, expertise and knowledge, universities have their own impact in this changing world. Professionals working in different spheres of society have to continuously develop and adapt their expertise to continue making a societal impact. Universities have - and feel - more and more the responsibility to make their expertise and the results of their research available where it is needed and for those who are in need of it in a more inclusive way, and in so doing they are generating a broad societal impact. With these reflections in mind eucen organized together with Utrecht University on 2 nd June 2021 an online Experts Seminar entitled Learning for impact in a changing world . With this online Experts Seminar, we also celebrated the 30th anniversary of eucen. The topic of the Expert Seminar and the celebration of 30 years of eucen were a perfect stimulus to restructure and further develop our eucen eJournal of University Lifelong Learning and transform it into the current European Journal of University Lifelong Learning for researchers, managers and practitioners. We understand our journal, which has already been published regularly for five years, as an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral journal that takes the different nature of practices of university lifelong learning (ULLL) as its central focus. This approach provides a forum in which to address policy questions, and for the development of theory and the dissemination of innovative practice in the field of ULLL. Following this understanding, we did some developmental work by broadening the scope of papers to be invited, thereby reflecting the diversity of roles and interests of our readership in university lifelong learning across Europe and beyond.