As part of the “ForBild” project at the Dörthe Krause Institute in Herdecke, the training supervision assists prospective carers. They learn, in theory and practice, to assess various health issue scenarios occurring in the daily care routine, and to examine them individually – important skills in order to be able to confidently exercise this challenging profession.

Just in time for the start of the school year in mid-September, the new outdoor school in Ladenburg (Rhein-Neckar district in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany) welcomed its first pupils. The independently funded all-day primary school focuses on diversified learning in and with nature.

Germany is now home to two regular budget professorships for naturopathic medicine at the renowned Charité medical faculty in Berlin. After two funding periods each, the endowed professorships of Prof. Dr. med. Benno Brinkhaus and Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Michalsen, which have existed since 2010, have been made permanent as regular budget professorships.

In the cheese dairy of the community of Höhenberg in Velden (Lower Bavaria), people with and without assistance needs work together to refine the farm’s milk into Demeter-quality cheese, yoghurt or quark. Evolving circumstances now require the conversion and expansion of the premises.