Organisation profile

Sustainability has many facets. Inter- and transdisciplinary research and teaching characterize the School of Sustainability. Scientists in our research projects work together in the laboratory, on the heath, in the grassland, in the classroom, with the city administration, with farmers, with non-governmental organizations, with companies, with students in the lecture hall and of course at their desks.

Furthermore, we work with regional and national political actors, e.g. ministries, as well as international organizations, e.g. UNEP, UNESCO, EU. We are part of national and international bodies, e.g. sustainability advisory boards of companies, member of the German Sustainability Award, World Biodiversity Council (IPBES), in order to contribute to social change with scientific findings.

Main research areas

Vision
Sustainability science investigates on a theoretical, conceptual and empirical level how to promote sustainable development and how to find and implement effective solutions for current social and ecological challenges. The aim is to create a more sustainable future.

Sustainability researchers are called upon to take responsibility for their research, which is anchored in existing scientific knowledge and methods and serves to make the world a better place for everyone.

Mission
We promote change towards a sustainable future by developing theories, concepts and practices of inclusive education for sustainability, research, governance and management.

We acknowledge the diversity and dynamics of values, norms and behaviour and contribute with transdisciplinary methods to ensuring that tensions and differences between different disciplines, methods, topics and standards are fruitfully taken up and used with productive compromises and further developments towards sustainable development.

Principles
The School of Sustainability is guided by the normative concepts of ecological system integrity and social and economic justice.

Ecological system integrity refers to the safeguarding of life-support systems, as well as the maintenance of the well-being of life on Earth.

With social and economic justice we strive for a world in which all people can fulfil their potential without endangering system integrity and the well-being of others.

Information about the School
The School of Sustainability includes...
... ca. 25 professors
... ca. 100 research assistants
... ca. 1000 students in Bachelor and Master courses

In various inter- and transdisciplinary projects we are constantly researching and working together on changes and solutions for current challenges.

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  1. 2015
  2. Green Hotels: Use of food waste derived from hotels and restaurants for the production of sustainable and biodegradable consumables.

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker) & Venus, J. (Speaker)

    14.04.201516.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Arbeitstagung Lernortwechsel - 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    17.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Methoden transformativer Forschung

    Vilsmaier, U. (Lecturer)

    24.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. 8th International Conference on Biobased Materials - 2015

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker)

    30.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Auftaktworkshop der EnergyCultures Nachwuchsgruppe - 2015

    Meyer, E. M. (Participant)

    30.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  7. Situational predictors of spontaneous mental contrasting

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Thinking about the future

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - SETAC Europe 2015

    Khaleel, N. D. H. (Participant)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - SETAC Europe 2015

    Khaleel, N. D. H. (Speaker), Olsson, O. (Coauthor), Kümmerer, K. (Coauthor) & Khaleel, N. D. H. (presenter)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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Publications

  1. Research Gains
  2. Automotive applications of magnesium and its alloys
  3. Wissenschaftlich Schreibenlernen als Sprachlernen
  4. Wie kann Versöhnung gefördert werden?
  5. Sustainability and Competitive Advantage
  6. Thermal Analysis and Production of As-Cast Al 7075/6060 Bilayer Billets
  7. Lipids in preventive dentistry
  8. Atomenergie: Renaissance nein danke
  9. Neo-orthodoxe und soziokulturelle Sozialökologie: Ein Beitrag zur Integrationsdebatte
  10. Young children's developing ability to integrate gestural and emotional cues
  11. Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Energy
  12. When control does not pay off: The dilemma between trade-off opportunities and budget restrictions in B2B negotiations
  13. Ihr habt verbreitet/ die Lehre der Klassiker. 
  14. Vorwort
  15. Die Dioxide und Trioxide des Tropilidens, Synthesen – Thermolysen.
  16. Das Phänomen Trump als Effekt von Microtargeting und Psychometrie
  17. Environmental and historical effects on richness and endemism patterns of carabid beetles in the western Palaearctic
  18. 30 Years After Les Immatériaux
  19. Schuhhaus Görtz: Blended Learning für die Modetrends von morgen
  20. Julius Meier-Graefe und die plurale Logik der Bilder
  21. Decentering the renaissance
  22. "Semisouverän" und doch anpassungsfähig
  23. Bekommst Du vorgelesen?
  24. Überschriften – der Anfang ist das A und O?!
  25. Cultural geographies of coastal change
  26. Zoning of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
  27. Narcissism and career success
  28. Métodos de enseñanza y aprendizaje interdisciplinario
  29. § 25 Klärgas
  30. Abundance of large old trees in wood-pastures of Transylvania (Romania)
  31. Karl May: Briefwechsel mit Sascha Schneider
  32. Foreign ownership and firm performance in the German services
  33. Sustainable consumption communication
  34. The European species of Chalarus Walker, 1834 revisited (Diptera: Pipunculidae)