ABSTRACT
University lifelong learning (ULLL) is understood as a collection of 'programmes', partly demand driven, partly the result of a 'missionary' approach, offered more or less separately from 'regular' undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate provision. The programmes are generally developed focusing on individual learners' needs or perhaps targeted to companies and institutions as 'clients' 'sending' their employees. Universities are here in an outstanding position, as professionals generally trust their ability to deliver educational programmes on the highest scientific level and to qualify individuals at any age and at every stage of their career to make use of newest research findings for their professional work. University continuing education should not only be research based when it comes to content; as part of a system of science, humanities and technology, its development also should be research based and research led. This chapter recognise that, in recent years, ULLL has become an increasingly important topic of study.
