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. 2025
  2. Sustainability Transformation: Building Resilience in Sustainability Reporting for a Net-Zero Future

    Bertram, A. (Speaker)

    19.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. What Is Enough, Really? Rethinking Sustainability & Technology in Space Heating

    Hartmann, E. (Speaker)

    26.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Regionale Fallstudie: Transformation in Niedersachsen

    Redenius, P. (Speaker) & Hartmann, E. (Speaker)

    01.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven aus dem Kommunalen Nachhaltigkeitsbarometer Niedersachsen

    Redenius, P. (Speaker)

    02.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  6. Critical Global Citizenship Education in der Lehrkräftebildung

    Grauer, C. (Speaker)

    14.07.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  7. ECPR General Conference 2025

    Rose, M. (Organiser) & Mathis, O. L. (Organiser)

    26.08.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Structures and Limits of the Emerging German Sustainability State

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Mathis, O. L. (Coauthor)

    26.08.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland - GfÖ 2025

    Staab, M. (Speaker)

    01.09.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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  1. Nachts allein nach Hause
  2. Finanzierungsstrategien kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen
  3. Carbon Footprint Apps - eine Analyse der Nutzungsintention
  4. Das Gesetz zur Stärkung der Finanzmarktintegrität (FISG)
  5. Gewindebohren goes Hi Tec
  6. Still green at fifteen? Investigating environmental awareness of the PISA 2015 population
  7. Queere Familien einfach mitdenken.
  8. Das Projektseminar Album der Vielfalt - Lebensräume und Lebensgeschichten
  9. Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules
  10. Multidimensional and intersectional cultural grievances over gender, sexuality and immigration
  11. COVID-19-related fear, stress and depression in school principals
  12. Bachelor und Master in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
  13. Misestimations as a barrier to climate action
  14. Wozu Senden? Sendevisionen im Ersten und Dritten Fernsehzeitalter
  15. Schöner leben
  16. Der Spender als Verdächtiger
  17. Johannes Brusila, Bruce Johnson and John Richardson (2016): Memory, Space, Sound
  18. Wer kolportiert?
  19. The weighted Moran formula for the dimension of generic McMullen-Bedford carpets
  20. Can rare arable plants benefit biological pest control potential of cereal aphids in croplands?
  21. Does sustainable corporate governance have an impact on materiality disclosure quality in integrated reporting?
  22. Die Macht der Affekte.
  23. Kommentierte Bibliographie
  24. Wirtschaftsethik
  25. Innovation Contests for Sustainability-Oriented Product Innovation
  26. Market for Corporate Control and CSR
  27. Erhalten durch Gestalten
  28. Measuring and Managing Sustainability Performance of Supply Chains
  29. Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
  30. Geistesgeschichte der Technik
  31. Eternal Life