According to a recent study, not only is the integrative Havelhöhe Community Hospital in Berlin the best clinic in the capital city, but it is also one of the top 5 hospitals in all German metropolises. The affiliated Havelhöhe Research Institute has been doing basic scientific work in the field of anthroposophic medicine for years.

Modern prenatal diagnostics can detect serious malformations or life-limiting illnesses of children while they are still in the womb. This diagnosis sees expectant parents confronted with hard decision. The Kinder Palliativ Team Südhessen provides affected families with advice and offers them a chance to spend time together.

The Berufsbildende Gemeinschaftswerk Kassel vocational school provides a practice-oriented counterweight to the often one-sided academic focus of the education system by offering extracurricular technical and craftsmanship training – now also in a tailoring workshop, the basic equipment for which was made possible by SAGST.

How do children and young people learn to use media confidently? And what can parents, preschools and schools do to support them as they do so? The MünDig study (“Mündigkeit und Digitalisierung” – “Maturity and Digitisation”) directed by Paula Bleckmann explores these questions.

“We must learn, not from books, but through living ideas, through cheerful sociability.” This guiding principle from J. W. von Goethe has also been adopted by Die Wilde 13 in Darmstadt. Here, children have plenty of space and time to grow up together in green surroundings that promote development.