The development of automated driving has made huge advances in the last years. Several companies are offering SAE-level-3 functions or even first services implemented by SAE-level-4 vehicles. However, experience shows that safety questions are still highly relevant: The operation of SAE level 3+ automated vehicles is still inherently subject to risk caused by uncertainty in environment perception, prediction of other traffic participants’ behavior, vehicle behavior definition & generation, requirements specification, and validation as well as managing a corresponding very complex computer system. Hence, novel approaches towards ensuring and validating safety of automated vehicles are necessary in order to reduce the risk to an acceptable level, which is itself still not defined or fully quantifiable. Thus, the Workshop Series on “Ensuring and Validating Safety of Automated Vehicles” addresses topics related to the safe operation of automated vehicles. Welcome contributions include, but are not limited to, approaches supporting safety-by-design, safety concepts, hazard analyses, safety argumentation and/or approaches for safety communication.