More and more wine growers are turning to natural growing methods to produce complex, highly expressive wines. Biodynamic winegrowing plays a particularly prominent role in this development, but the approach – which has proven successful in the vineyard and in the glass – still has its sceptics. A world-famous winegrowing school in the Rhine region has now carried out a long-term study that takes an important step towards gaining more recognition for this method, including from scientists.

Almost 11 million schoolchildren throughout Germany have been working in their “home office” since mid-March. For a major part of them, learning during the coronavirus pandemic takes place within their own four walls, isolated from their classmates. Digital media are frequent companions during tuition and leisure time. The young people first have to learn to use them responsibly – not only in the current exceptional situation. Screen-free times included.

“Inspiration Biene” (Bee an Inspiration) explores the various connections between bees and education. The project, which includes teaching materials and a textbook, ranges freely in its thinking across disciplines and thus contributes to the dialogue between science and living nature.

In an era of home schooling and the increasing transfer of online knowledge, the result of a scientific study of 266 kindergarten children and primary school pupils should make us sit up and take notice. The imaginative power of three to nine-year olds developed more slowly, the longer they used screen media on a daily basis.

Waldorf schools are urgently looking for new talent. Every year, around 600 new teachers are needed nationwide. Two students from Alanus University in Alfter near Bonn report on how the part-time master’s degree course in Pedagogy/Waldorf Education is preparing them for their careers as schoolteachers.

The individual needs and desires of older individuals are the focus of a new study from the Berlin Institute. How are our values changing in a time of demographic change – and what does this mean for our approach to death and dying?