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

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Artificial sunlight photolysis of the pharmaceuticals doxepin hydrochloride, gabapentin and quetiapine hemifumarate as single compounds and as a mixture

    Herrmann, M. (presenter)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  4. Assessment of the biodegradability and ecotoxicity of the anti-cancer drug Imatinib Mesylate after UV and simulated sunlight irradiation treatments

    Lutterbeck, C. (presenter)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. Assessment of the biodegradability and ecotoxicity of the anticancer drug Imatinib Mesylate after UV and simulated sunlight irradiation treatments

    Lutterbeck, C. A. (Speaker), Baginska, E. (Speaker) & Machado, E. L. (Speaker)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Households as important source of biocidal active substances in influents of sewage treatment plants

    Wieck, S. (presenter)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  7. PRIORITIZATION OF VETERINARY ANTIBIOTICS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS USING A SIMPLE SCREENING APPROACH

    Menz, J. (presenter)

    03.05.201507.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  8. Making universities sustainable: UNESCO Chairs join forces

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    04.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. International JTEFS/BBCC Conference Sustainable Development. Culture. Education 2015

    Fischer, D. (Keynote speaker)

    05.05.201508.05.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Creating transdisciplinary research spaces for sustainable development

    Vilsmaier, U. (Lecturer)

    06.05.201508.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Creating transdisciplinary research spaces for sustainable development

    Vismaier, U. (Speaker), Engbers, M. (Coauthor) & Brandner, V. (Coauthor)

    06.05.201508.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  1. Skandinavische Weihnachtsmärchen
  2. Zugänge zur Personalforschung
  3. Zur Konzeption dieses Bandes
  4. Das Unwort erklärt die Untat
  5. Weltaktionsprogramm "Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung"
  6. A portrait of the artist as a researcher
  7. Laufen, skaten, fahren !
  8. Demirovic, Alex, Julia Dück, Florian Becker u. Pauline Bader (Hg.), VielfachKrise im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus, 2011
  9. Deliberative Diversity for News Recommendations
  10. Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond
  11. Der Einfluss einer Konsequenz auf das einer selbstbestimmten motorischen Handlung vorausgehende Bereitschaftspotenzial
  12. Rivalität, Konflikt und Freiheit
  13. 20 years of Health Promotion Research in and on settings in Europe
  14. Chaos in der 7c. Gute Klassenführung ist kein Allheilmittel, aber sie wirkt.
  15. Gewicht vergleichen
  16. A health economic outcome evaluation of an internet-based mobile-supported stress management intervention for employees
  17. Exports, R&D and Productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with enterprise data from France, Italy and Spain
  18. Pilgern und Pilgerwege
  19. Förderung des Transfers metakognitiver Lernstrategien durch direktes und indirektes Training
  20. Förderung des Wohlbefindens durch „Gamification“
  21. The modernization of West German police
  22. Variability in leaf traits reveals contrasting strategies between forest and grassland woody communities across southern Brazil
  23. Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala
  24. Das Gebot der eindeutigen Leistungsbeschreibung zwischen Vergaberecht und Allgemeiner Rechtsgeschäftslehre
  25. Der Grundsatz der Subsidiarität der Verfassungsbeschwerde auf dem Prüfstand des Unionsrechts
  26. Über Hinterbühnen und Fauxpas
  27. Sustainability Entrepreneurship in the Context of Emissions Trading
  28. Transport of perfluoroalkyl acids in a water-saturated sediment column investigated under near-natural conditions
  29. "Hello, we're from the internet" - Zur digitalen Transformation des Kulturbetriebs
  30. Ein Beitrag durch wertorientiertes Umweltmanagement
  31. Selbständige Arbeitnehmer oder abhängige Selbständige?
  32. Familie im Zentrum?
  33. Sustainability as a Fundamental Challenge for Management Accountants