The ADER approach (Toro et al. 2001 and many others) allows the construction of non-linear one step fully discrete numerical schemes of arbitrary order of accuracy in space and time, for solving evolutionary partial differential equations. The ADER approach operates in the frameworks of finite volume and DG finite element methods and is applicable to multidimensional problems on unstructured meshes. The schemes have two basic ingredients: (a) a non-linear spatial reconstruction operator and (b) the solution of a generalized (or high-order) Riemann problem that links spatial data distribution and time evolution. After describing the main ideas of the methodology I will also show some applications involving hyperbolic and parabolic equations.