By the time this editorial is published, we will have had the conference of the European Society for Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This will be the first conference of the newly founded society, a successor of the EuroPLAT Network, which had its last conference in Salzburg, Austria, in 2017. Maybe you have been a long-time attendee of ESPLAT and EuroPLAT conferences (e.g., in Stockholm, Edinburgh, or Vilnius) or you have just heard about the new society and have attended the ESPLAT conference for the first time. Anyway, we hope that you will all become members of ESPLAT, because our aim is to build a strong and growing community that is dedicated to the teaching and learning of psychology. The PLAT journal is the medium of scholarly communication of ESPLAT and beyond, and our goal is to develop the journal in terms of a larger number of submissions, higher citations rates, and greater impact factor. To achieve this, we have to make sure that PLAT is available at many institutions and for all interested persons. We will make an effort to investigate to what extent this is the case through a survey among ESPLAT conference attendees and ESPLAT members.

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PLAT 18(3) 2019

到本社论出版时，我们将在荷兰乌得勒支召开欧洲心理学学习与教学学会 (ESPLAT) 会议。这将是新成立的协会的第一次会议，它是 EuroPLAT Network 的继任者，该协会于 2017 年在奥地利萨尔茨堡举行了最后一次会议。 也许您一直是 ESPLAT 和 EuroPLAT 会议的长期参与者（例如，在斯德哥尔摩、爱丁堡或维尔纽斯）或者您刚刚听说新社会并第一次参加 ESPLAT 会议。不管怎样，我们希望你们都成为 ESPLAT 的成员，因为我们的目标是建立一个强大且不断发展的社区，致力于心理学的教学和学习。PLAT 期刊是 ESPLAT 及其他学术交流的媒介，我们的目标是在更多的投稿量、更高的引用率和更大的影响因子方面发展该期刊。为了实现这一目标，我们必须确保许多机构和所有感兴趣的人都可以使用 PLAT。我们将通过对 ESPLAT 会议与会者和 ESPLAT 成员的调查，努力调查这种情况的程度。