Healthy Innovations for Europe

An ELIANT conference on May 20th, 2025 at 2.00 p.m. in the Royal Library in Brussels and o n l i n e worldwide on the occasion of the 100th memorial day of Rudolf Steiner’s death (1861-1925).

Conference language is English with simultaneous translation into German, French and Spanish.

The participation is free of charge.

Location of the conference

Royal Library of Belgium

Mont des Arts 28,
1000 Bruxelles,
Belgium

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Schedule

13.00

Welcome with coffee and biscuits

14.30

The Earth needs Healing and the Economy Love

Speaker:

Chairman of the Board of SEKEM Holding, Chairman of the SEKEM Initiative and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development.

15.00

Better rules, less bureaucracy and a more agile state  –
What can we learn today from Rudolf Steiner’s concept of the state for the future of Europe?

Speaker:

Armin founded his first company at the age of 16. Today, together with 30 colleagues from the Purpose Foundation and the Foundation for Steward Ownership, he helps companies worldwide to transform into steward-ownership.

15.30

Panel:

A framework curriculum for development-oriented media education in Europe

Panelists:

Managing Director of ECSWE (European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education)

Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at ECSWE (European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education)

Waldorf class teacher and Educational scientist and consultant for Waldorf education.

16.00

Coffee break with biscuits

16.30

Panel:

Integrative medicine worldwide and its contribution to a healthy healthcare system

Panelists:

Board Member of IVAA (International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations)

Head of the Academy for Nursing Professions at the Filderklinik, President of the International Council of Anthroposophic Nursing Organizations (ICANA)

Specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine, Managing Director of the patients‘ and citizens’ association GESUNDHEIT AKTIV

17.30

Closing

Summary of the afternoon by Michaela Glöckler

17.40

Evening meal

18.30

Concert by the Orchestra of the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles

Soloist: Lucía Alonso Hernández, viola
Conductors: Vincent Horsten, David Laranjeira Marques (students in Robin Engelen’s conducting class)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture from the opera „Idomeneo” KV 621
contemporary arrangement by Johann Stumpf for harmony music

Paul Hindemith
Der Schwanendreher (1935/36)
for solo viola and orchestra

Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

19.45

End of the conference