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. 2016
  2. Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology e.V. (External organisation)

    Pleißner, D. (Member)

    01.09.2016

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  3. Transformative Research and Development in Urban and Regional Environments

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    01.09.201603.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Transforming Well-Being in Wuppertal: Conditions and Constraints

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Maibaum, K. (Speaker)

    01.09.201603.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  5. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - GfÖ 2016

    Ohse, B. (Speaker)

    05.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Eine didaktische Rekonstruktion der Energiewende

    Hüfner, S. (Speaker)

    05.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik - GDCP 2016

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    05.09.201608.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Neon ist doch eine Farbe!: Ein Unterrichtsgespräch über den Atombau

    Abels, S. (Speaker), Heidinger, C. (Speaker), Koliander, B. (Speaker) & Plotz, T. (Speaker)

    05.09.201608.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Netzwerk inklusiver naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht

    Abels, S. (Speaker), Menthe, J. (Speaker), Blumberg, E. (Speaker), Fromme, T. (Speaker), Marohn, A. (Speaker) & Rott, L. (Speaker)

    05.09.201608.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Establishing real-life laboratories: a transdisciplinary approach.

    Bernert, P. (presenter)

    06.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. Neon ist doch eine Farbe! Ein Unterrichtsgespräch über den Atombau 

    Abels, S. (Panel participant)

    06.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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  3. Determinantes e Desenvolvimento de Escolas na Teoria Organizacional
  4. Erinnerung an Karl Rahner
  5. Sugars in Antarctic aerosol
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  7. Kommunikative Konstitution von Organisationen
  8. Choreographien der Homogenisierung
  9. Boon and bane of being sure
  10. Vorausschauend Kriterien Nachhaltiger Chemie integrieren:
  11. Fluchtbewegung in Variationen
  12. Kritik, partiale Perspektive und kapitalistische Totalität
  13. § 352 Aufrechnung nach Nichterfüllung
  14. Skandinavische Weihnachtsmärchen
  15. Zugänge zur Personalforschung
  16. Zur Konzeption dieses Bandes
  17. Das Unwort erklärt die Untat
  18. Weltaktionsprogramm "Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung"
  19. A portrait of the artist as a researcher
  20. Laufen, skaten, fahren !
  21. Demirovic, Alex, Julia Dück, Florian Becker u. Pauline Bader (Hg.), VielfachKrise im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus, 2011
  22. Deliberative Diversity for News Recommendations
  23. Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond
  24. Der Einfluss einer Konsequenz auf das einer selbstbestimmten motorischen Handlung vorausgehende Bereitschaftspotenzial
  25. Rivalität, Konflikt und Freiheit
  26. 20 years of Health Promotion Research in and on settings in Europe
  27. Chaos in der 7c. Gute Klassenführung ist kein Allheilmittel, aber sie wirkt.
  28. Gewicht vergleichen
  29. A health economic outcome evaluation of an internet-based mobile-supported stress management intervention for employees
  30. Exports, R&D and Productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with enterprise data from France, Italy and Spain
  31. Pilgern und Pilgerwege
  32. Förderung des Transfers metakognitiver Lernstrategien durch direktes und indirektes Training
  33. Förderung des Wohlbefindens durch „Gamification“
  34. The modernization of West German police
  35. Variability in leaf traits reveals contrasting strategies between forest and grassland woody communities across southern Brazil