The European Educational Research Journal has been created by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) to further the aims of the association and its members, educational researchers across Europe. The EERJ is thus the official journal of the EERA. It is the journal of an association. However while membership to EERA is based on a democratic principle of representation, the journal follows a scientific principle of selection: It is an international peer-reviewed journal, which develops and encourages specific research interests. The main interest of the journal has been in Europeanization. It publishes aspects of educational research which illuminate the cases and contents of the emerging borderless space of European educational research. The context in which European researchers are working today is one in which the mobilizing discourses of the 'European Educational Research Area' and the 'European Research Area', combined with other 'borderless' flows of internationalisation of programmes, public-private partnerships and university alliances, are re-shaping the milieu of research in education. A challenge for the journal is to understand this process and to render globalization / europeanisation visible, through reflexive and critical thinking.
