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.

2641 - 2650 out of 3,295Page size: 10
  1. Summer School “Implementation of Sustainability into Research and Teaching of Higher Education Institutions in Eastern Europe” - 2011

    Rieckmann, M. (Speaker)

    16.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. Summer School in Sustainability Economics: Intergenerational Equity and Efficiency under Uncertainty

    Hussain, A. M. T. (Participant)

    04.08.201407.08.2014

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

  3. Summer School in the context of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning 2012

    Staab, M. (Participant)

    16.03.201222.03.2012

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

  4. Summer School on Climate Change 2014

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    31.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  5. Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry 2015

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    14.09.201517.09.2015

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

  6. Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry and the case of Electronic Goods 2017

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    25.09.201729.09.2017

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

  7. Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry and the example of textiles 2016

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    12.09.201616.09.2016

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

  8. Summer SChool on Sustainable Chemistry and the Myths of Renewables

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    16.09.201920.09.2019

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

  9. Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry and Water (Online) 2020

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    21.09.202025.09.2020

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

  10. Summer School on Sustainable Chemistry in Construction Materials and Habitation 2018

    Kümmerer, K. (Organiser)

    24.09.201828.09.2018

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

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Valuation of Biodiversity ‐ A NERC scoping study
  2. Metabolites and Transformation Products of Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment as Contaminants of Emerging Concern
  3. Bilderschrift und kartographischer Eingriff
  4. Peer Feedback-basierte E-Portfolioaufgaben zur Förderung von Reflexionskompetenz in der universitären Lehrkräftebildung im Fach Englisch
  5. Gesellschaft in Stein gemeißelt
  6. The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands
  7. Die Heilige Sippe und die Mediengeschichte des Triptychons
  8. Assessing the impact of patient-involvement healthcare strategies on patients, providers, and the healthcare system
  9. Am Ende der Bildung
  10. Michael Hoffmann. 2017. Stil und Text. Eine Einführung (Narr Studienbücher). Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto
  11. E-Learning im Musikunterricht
  12. Extreme Bounds of Democracy
  13. § 284 Ersatz vergeblicher Aufwendungen
  14. Christopher Adair-Toteff (Ed.), The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch
  15. Das Projekt ELLA international
  16. Rezension von Warnke, Martin: Theorien des Internet zur Einführung
  17. Chancen und Risiken im Kontext von Migration und Adoleszenz
  18. Creativity and entrepreneurship
  19. Mehr Schein als Sein?
  20. Aspekte eines individuell-sinnvollen Koordinations- und Stabilisationstraining im Mädchen-Fußball
  21. Produktion und Gebrauch
  22. Works councils and separations
  23. What do doctors and nursing staff know about pharmaceutical residues in the water cycle and how do they handle them?
  24. Métodos de enseñanza y aprendizaje interdisciplinario
  25. Job characteristics
  26. Ludifizierung von Kultur
  27. Export und Import im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe
  28. Finanzierungsstrategien kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen
  29. Kompositionseffekte bei der Notenvergabe in Mathematik auf der 4. Schulstufe der österreichischen Volksschule
  30. Nicht ohne die Anderen
  31. Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19
  32. Die neue Jugendkultur
  33. Erkennung und klassifizierung von harmonischen transienten mit trigonometrischen glatten wavelet-paketen
  34. Organizational Practice Transfer within a Transnational Professional Service Firm
  35. Die mediale Erfindung der Gesellschaft
  36. Die Unbeständigkeit der wilden Seele
  37. Professionelle Lernbegleitung
  38. Evaluation of strength and power in upper extremities in wheelchair athletes
  39. Die Fotobefragung
  40. Armut über Generationen. Überlegungen zur methodischen Vorgehensweise in der rekonstruktiven intergenerationalen Ungleichheitsforschung und eine fallexemplarische Analyse