Soul of Europe is a cycle of conferences that take place in different
European countries once a year with the aim of investigating the being
of Europe, its soul, tasks and problems.

Soul of Europe is a cycle of conferences that take place in different European countries once a year with the aim of investigating the being of Europe, its soul, tasks and problems.

This initiative started in 2005 in Amsterdam. The first conference took up the theme of the relationship between citizens and politics, but soon the range of questions expanded to include the perspective of the place where the participants met: What colour or colour shade can the Dutch folk soul give to the Soul of Europe? And what does the Soul of Europe expect from Central Europe and Anthroposophy?

The next seven conferences moved from Prague (2008) via Gdansk (2010), Varna at the coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria (2014), Simeria in Romanian Transylvania (2015), Lahti in Finland (2016), Kiev in Ukraine (2017) to Tbilisi in Georgia (2018). Each time a specific program emerged from the co-operation between the Section of Social Sciences at the Goetheanum and the local Anthroposophical Societies. Thus a kind of rainbow was formed by the peculiarities of the countries and the general questions of a common Europe.

Europe is on the path of finding anew its tasks in the world orchestra – otherwise it will lose itself. “The Soul of Europe” conferences wish to make a contribution on this path.