Act locally, affect globally:
Steiner/Waldorf schools change the world
The first Waldorf school was founded in Stuttgart in 1919. Today there are over 1,100 Waldorf schools and almost 2,000 Waldorf kindergartens in some 80 countries around the globe. And more all the time. We are making our Centennial an occasion to further develop Waldorf education for contemporary times, and focus more consciously on its global dimensions. With many exciting projects on all continents. Keep your ears and eyes open, and be part of the movement: 100 years are just the beginning!
Waldorf 100 Projects
We promote mutual recognition and networking (in the schools themselves, but also regionally and across national borders) to create a vital international connectedness that is more important today than ever before. We are beginning to work on community-building activities – large and small, complex and simple, instructive and entertaining, as diverse as the world in which we live. Become involved, join the effort, show your world to others. Some examples you can find in the following core projects initiated by us.
Waldorf 100 Core Projects
Marathon around the world
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Summer 2018
This never happened before: pupils, parents, and teachers from 100 different Steiner/Waldorf schools run a relay race “with the sun around the world”. Following the course of the sun, a total of 24 hours.
Metamorphoses
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Beginning 2017
One of the “core projects” of Waldorf 100 is a series of musical compositions written especially for our Centennial Celebration by master students from composition classes in leading music schools around the world.
Bees & Trees
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- 2017
“The entire beehive is actually permeated with love life,” commented Rudolf Steiner. We will make the earth a place where bees can thrive again.
Postcard Exchange
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Spring 2017
A hands-on community, real instead of virtual: 1,100 schools write and send each other 1 real(!) postcard – a total of 1,100 cards.
Drama Project “Where is humankind?”
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Beginning 2017
In cooperation with leading modern artists, this drama project aspires to create a dramatic work for high school students that can be staged by all schools.
News
This is Waldorf 100
The Waldorf 100 initiative arose in fall 2014 at a conference of the International Forum for Steiner/Waldorf Education held in Israel. In the meantime, many associated and partner institutions have endorsed the idea.
The upcoming Centennial offers a unique opportunity to make full use of a global exchange of ideas to develop our educational practice for the needs of this century. We will reinforce our mutual awareness and networks with an array of diverse projects and actions in schools and kindergartens, regionally and internationally. These projects will illuminate how Waldorf education overcomes cultural, ideological, economic, and social borders.
The fresh impetus from each Steiner/Waldorf facility around the world is a central element in the overall concept. We look forward to hearing about exciting project ideas – nothing is too small, nothing too large, nothing too simple and nothing too complex. Set out with us into the second century of Waldorf education! Join us to make Waldorf 100 a worthy global experience for everyone.
Events
Spring conference Hamburg 2019
22.02.2019 - 24.02.2019FAUST-Festival Ismaning 2019
22.02.2019 - 01.03.2019National Conference of Waldorf Parents 2019 „Waldorf 100! Be human – be free – create the future courageously “
29.03.2019 - 01.04.2019Education: from Science to Art Waldorf 100 Reggio Emilia
29.03.2019 - 31.03.2019-
Moritz Rinke
Photo: Rowohlt Verlag "A few days ago I spoke on the phone with my former English teacher from the Waldorf School in Ottersberg, who also supervised and directed the theatrical performances at the school, for example our 8th grade class play. In the meantime, she must be around 90 and had spontaneously grabbed the phone...
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Sarah Wiener
"Bees are fascinating, beautiful and indispensable organisms, a super-organism from which we can learn a lot – neither plants nor animals could survive without the diverse world of bees, not even humans. Our life is closely connected with bees. However, the bee is badly affected by our kind of...
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Samuel Weiss
When I think of the Waldorf School, I always first think of Joseph Beuys' sentence: "Where have they actually remained, the Waldorf students? All those special people who change the world?" I then always feel that first of all I have this obligation, this burden, to be special. Until now, however, I...
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