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. Rational Socially Responsible Investment

    Peylo, B. T. (Speaker)

    01.10.201203.10.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Raum & Gender – eine inter- und transdisziplinäre Spurensuche

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    18.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Räume generativer Bildung

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    02.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Räume transdisziplinären Lehrens und Forschens schaffen

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Räume und Orte für transdisziplinäre Forschung schaffen

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    30.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. "‚Raum‘ in der sozial-ökologischen Forschung

    Friedrich, B. (Lecturer)

    17.01.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Realizing Sustainability in Institutions needs Gender sensitive Competencies and Organisations and the ethical frame "Self-in-Relation"

    Moths, K. (Speaker)

    24.06.201426.06.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Recht auf Ineffizienz – Eine Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von Grundrechten zur Effizienz

    Bertram, A. (Speaker)

    07.03.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Rechtliche Möglichkeiten von Verkehrsbeschränkungen in Ballungsräumen

    Schomerus, C.-T. (Speaker)

    08.05.1994

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Rechtliche und planerische Aspekte der Kabelanbindung im Küstenmeer

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    31.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch