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.

An expanded farm shop with a café opens up additional areas of activity and training options for residents of the Fleckenbühler community near Marburg. This benefits people with addiction disorders as well as visitors who can shop or enjoy a coffee here in a relaxed atmosphere.

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?

How can we control our anxious thoughts? What will enable us to thrive in a crisis? What gives us strength? ACT e.V., a Berlin-based educational initiative, is creating solidarity and interpersonal connection during the pandemic, both within and beyond its acting groups. Together, its members are establishing long-distance connections that will counteract social isolation and suffocating boredom.

Around nine million people in Germany rely on help at home every day – mobile outpatient services take on only a small proportion of these tasks. In order to provide relief to the also often elderly family members during the corona crisis, «deinNachbar e. V.» from Munich now supports other organisations and local authorities nationwide in placing volunteer helpers exactly when and where they are needed.