The international Waldorf Parent History

1992: EFRSWSP established:

In August 1992 an initiative was launched in Norrköping, Sweden to form an European parents association to cooperate with the European Council of Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Schools (ECSWS). Members of EFRSWSP had to be delegated from national parents associations in countries where they resided.

EFRSWSP and ECSWS met up to 3 times per year in different European cities.

• 1992 Norrköping
• 1993 København, Luxemburg and Ljubljana
• 1994 Madrid, Wien and Tønsberg
• 1995 Turku, Budapest and Antwerpen
• 1996 Salzburg, Strasbourg and Zagreb
• 1997 Aachen, Tallin and Luxemburg
• 1998 Stockholm
• 1999 Stavanger
• 2000 Hannover, Paris
• 2001 Aberdeen

Members of EFRSWSP were:

Austria, Belgia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estland, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Luxemburg, The Nederlands, Norway, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, England.

English was the working language in EFRSWSP.

EFRSWSP was closed in 2000.

2003: The International Waldorf Parents Association (IWPA)

After the closure of EFRSWSP, the parents associations in Sweden and Norway initiated the establishment of the International Waldorf Parent Association (IWPA) in 2003.

• 2003: Pribram
• 2004: Prague
• 2006: Prague

2007: The International Waldorf Parents Network (IWPN)

During the meeting in Prague in 2006, it was decided to restructure IWPA into a network association. This was decided, because few countries had established national parents associations at the time, and a network in which individual parents participate was believed to be a better approach.

During the meeting in Prague it was also decided to establish a website at www.waldorfparents.net. SFF (Norway) volunteered to create the website.