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This volume of the European Journal of University Lifelong Learning (EJULL) focusses on the question of how universities are (or should be) addressing diversity and inclusion and which roles lifelong learning (LLL) play in this context. LLL can serve as a vehicle for inclusion and diversity, especially through continuing professional development and expanding university staff awareness of the challenges and barriers faced by learners from marginalised groups; at the same time, it helps foster sensitivity in university staff towards the structural inequalities and hidden curricula that exist within their own institutions. This triple mandate appears well represented by the essays of this volume, each presenting inspiring and concrete solutions based on existing projects and initiatives in their respective professional and institutional higher education contexts.

Editorial Board of this issue: Prof. Eva Cendon (Editor-in-Chief), Prof. Ester Cois (Guest Editor), University Cagliari, Italy and Prof. Wieger Bakker, University Utrecht, Netherlands.

This volume of the European Journal for University Lifelong Learning (EJULL) includes a selection of papers that address the topic of the eucen 2023 conference from different angles. They focus on three themes under the umbrella of collaboration and connection: (a) cooperation and cocreation and how they jointly create impactful UCE, (b) modern workplace learning in relation to higher education developments and impactful UCE, and (c) embedding UCE within the core of the university.

Editorial Board of this issue: Prof. Dr. Eva Cendon (Editor-in-Chief), Prof. Dr. Wieger Bakker (Guest editor), University Utrecht, Netherland, and Timo Halttunen, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

This issue of the European Journal of University Lifelong Learning (EJULL) (peer-reviewed since 2021) focuses on lifelong learning as flexible learning in four dimensions: as digital learning for using technology to access knowledge, as professional learning for nurturing talent, as responsible learning for connecting learning with society, and as inclusive learning for a world where everyone is welcome. With flexible learning as a common frame of reference, the focus is on lifelong learning approaches, projects, and practices in higher education that concentrate on one or more of these dimensions.

The Editorial Board of this issue consists of Prof. Dr. Eva Cendon (Editor-in-Chief), Ülle Kesli (Guest editor), University of Tartu, Estonia and Prof. Dr. Kevin Orr, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

The European Journal of University Lifelong Learning (EJULL) brings together different types of contributions - research articles, reports of innovative practice, discussion papers - that take the perspectives of different actors in the context of academic continuing education in Europe and beyond. All submitted texts have undergone a review process since 2021. The main topic of this issue is ULLL today and tomorrow: Transforming HEIs for a higher quality and more inclusive knowledge transfer and is based on contributions and discussions at the eucen conference 2022 in Budapest. This issue comprises six articles, framed by an editorial and an interview with Marcella Milana and Zsuzsanna Géring about the present and the future of lifelong learning.

The Editorial Board of this issue consists of Prof. Dr. Eva Cendon (Editor-in-Chief), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Balázs Németh (Guest editor), University of Pécs, Hungary and Prof. Dr. Kevin Orr, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

The European Journal of University Lifelong Learning (EJULL) gathers different types of contributions – research articles, reports of innovative practice, discussion papers – that take perspectives from different actors in the context of academic continuing education in Europe and beyond. All submitted texts have been going through a review process since 2021. The thematic focus of this issue is ULLL today and tomorrow: Transforming HEIs for a higher quality and more inclusive knowledge transfer, and is based on contributions and discussions at the eucen conference 2022 in Budapest. This issue includes six articles, framed by an editorial and an interview with Marcella Milana and Zsuzsanna Géring about the present and the future of lifelong learning.

The Editorial Board of this issue consists of Prof. Dr. Eva Cendon (Editor-in-Chief), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Balázs Németh (Guest editor), University of Pécs, Hungary and Prof. Dr. Kevin Orr, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

The research report presents the results of the project German Digital Open University: Developing structural models of digital higher education in Germany, which was conducted under the leadership of Prof. Dr Eva Cendon at the FernUniversität in Hagen between April and September 2021at the FernUniversität in Hagen and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding priority on "Digital University Education" (Digitale Hochschulbildung).

The project results include possible approaches for a potential collaboration between higher education institutions in the form of a German Digital Open University (GDOU) that incorporates various dimensions of digitalisation and is dedicated to opening up higher education (openness) as well as to the transfer of knowledge The findings are intended to serve as inspiration for key actors within higher education as well as political stakeholders, in order to advance the concept of a GDOU and make it a reality..

The research report is available in German and English language and can be downloaded as Open Access (PDF) via deposit_hagen:

>>German Version

>>English Version

On the occasion of eucen’s 30^th anniversary, the eucen eJournal of University Lifelong Learning has been widely revised. As the European Journal of University Lifelong Learning (EJULL) it comprises various types of contributions – research articles, reports on innovative practice, discussion papers – that intend to cater for the perspectives of the divers actors in the context of continuing education in Europe and beyond. All submitted texts undergo a review process. Prof.°Dr.°Eva Cendon is responsible for the new European journal as editor-in-chief, supported by a managing editor and the editorial board.

The current issue’s thematic anchor is the eucen online experts seminar “Learning for Impact in a Changing World” at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands in June 2021. The issue includes nine articles, framed by an editorial and an interview with Mirko Noordegraaf on the societal impact of universities. Our Department’s contribution is an article on University Continuing Education as an Innovation Lab by Eva Cendon, Dorothée Schulte and Anita Mörth on.