Meet our Editorial team and Editorial board members.
What is ELM Magazine?
ELM Magazine (European Lifelong Learning Magazine; ISSN 2489-5865) is a free online magazine on adult education and lifelong learning. It is a journalistic medium with a European scope. ELM Magazine is published by the Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation, KVS, and its editorial office is located in Helsinki, Finland.
ELM Magazine addresses current topics in the field of adult education and lifelong learning in Europe and globally. The readership consists of educators, adult learners, advocates, decision-makers, researchers and students in this field.
ELM is committed to the Journalistic guidelines of the Council for Mass Media in Finland and to the Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists of International Federation of Journalists.
ELM Magazine has received funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland.
Our promise to the reader
ELM keeps the reader on the pulse of trends and innovations in the field of adult education and lifelong learning. It discusses learning in a broad sense, seeing it as a lifelong process comprising formal, informal and non-formal learning, both vocational and liberal adult education.
ELM spreads inspiring practices and knowledge on adult education and lifelong learning and adds depth and context for important phenomena. The cornerstones of its articles are reliability and research-based knowledge.
ELM discusses research in an understandable, accessible way. It provides a forum for knowledge transfer between research and practice.
ELM furthers European dialogue and collaboration. It offers a community for everyone interested in adult education and lifelong learning.
In 2023, ELM was ranked second of the Top 25 Adult Education Blogs on the web.
Editorial board
ELM’s Editorial board consists of members from various regions of Europe:
Antra Carlsen (NVL, Denmark)
Jón Torfi Jónasson (University of Iceland)
Thomas Jung (DIE, Germany)
Maja Maksimović (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Dina Soeiro (EAEA, ESREA, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Michael Sommer (Akademie Klausenhof, Germany)
Join our correspondent network
Are you a journalist or an adult education professional who can write fluently in English? Are you interested in contributing to ELM Magazine? Join our correspondent network by emailing us at elm@kvs.fi