The conference will address the following key questions and challenges which concern European citizens:
Why is freedom of choice a crucial issue and a challenge for the cultural development of Europe?
How can freedom of choice be promoted and guaranteed, and what can European citizens do about it?
The conference explores concrete examples of the divergence between the EU’s promised values of freedom and pluralism and their actual translation into practice through 7 parallel workshops:
Agriculture: Land Sharing and Plant Breeding
Democracy and the Responsibility of Civil Society
Integrative Medicine: A Way Forward for Public Health
Public Health: Prototypes for Patient-Centred Healthcare in Europe
Education: The Digital Dilemma – To Use or to Be Used
People with Special Needs: Necessary Care and Support
Citizens’ Fundamental Rights: The EU Charter and its Neglected Aspects

The event will close with a plenary session, where the highlights of each workshop will be presented and ideas for engaging citizens in support of freedom of choice will be examined.

ELIANT kindly invites all participants to attend the networking
dinner at the end of the conference
About ELIANT:
ELIANT is an alliance of 10 European associations concerned with agriculture, nutrition, medicine and health, patients’ rights, education, care for people with special needs, democracy and ethical economics. Founded in Brussels in 2006, it gives a voice to many innovative initiatives of applied anthroposophy in Europe.