The journal of SET-VALUED AND VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS is devoted to mathematical aspects of variational analysis, set-valued mappings, and associated topics, and to the applications of these aspects including mathematical optimization and related areas. The journal serves both specialists and users of set-valued and variational analysis, by building strong interactions between them, with applications being especially welcome. The policy of the journal is to promote works with some new relevant ideas, discouraging the publication of minor refinements of previous results, including manuscripts whose unique contribution is a generalization or an extension to a different space, per se, without proper motivation.