Out of the classroom and into collaborative experiential learning: The Jugendschule Strausberg school near Berlin is designed as an extracurricular learning centre in the spirit of the Erdkinder programme, a special practice-oriented Montessori educational offering for young people between the ages of twelve and sixteen.

To steer the flow of life in the right direction – that is the aim of the Panta Rhei integrative residential group in Glashütte. It provides support for twelve youth in particularly difficult circumstances reintegrating into regular everyday life.

For years, DemenzForum Darmstadt has been providing information about living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related illnesses, as well as assistance with many practical questions. The association wants to build on this important work with the planned “Memory-Haus” in Darmstadt’s Martinsviertel.

It is obvious that the quality of our food is related to the way it is produced. In his recently published book “A Biodynamic Guide to Food Quality”, the Danish scientist Dr Jens-Otto Anderson shows the contribution biodynamic agriculture can make in this context.

Does your grandma bake the best cakes and your grandpa know how to repair a broken lamp? Such valuable competencies are to be consciously integrated in the planned baking workshop and new repair café in the Postsiedlung neighbourhood in Darmstadt. Now the expansion of the former bakery into a meeting centre can begin.