Prof. Dr. Martin Voss and the ATLAS-ENGAGE project exchanged ideas with THW leadership, state officers and executives on the topic of societal changes and their impacts on volunteerism. In an input lecture on volunteerism and commitment in the population protection of the future, Prof. Voss outlined radical social change processes based on historical disasters and events, and then asked what times we live in today, which social trends are bringing about change, and how these affect volunteerism structures and understandings.