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. Wie kann nachhaltige Entwicklung in die Hochschulen integriert werden?

    Michelsen, G. (Lecturer)

    31.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  2. Wie kann sich der Landkreis Oldenburg zu einem (Bio)Diversitätskorridor entwickeln?

    Peukert, D. (Speaker) & Engbers, M. (Speaker)

    01.2017

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

  3. Wie kommen wir zu noch saubereren Wasser?

    Olsson, O. (Speaker)

    22.03.2019

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

  4. Wie können informatische Kompetenzen und Einsichten bei Studierenden des Sachunterrichts gefördert werden?

    Richter, S. (Speaker)

    05.03.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  5. Wie wir Hürden in der Klimakommunikation(sflut) erfolgreich meistern

    Kause, A. (Speaker)

    14.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Wie wirkt Transdisziplinarität? Abschlusssymposium des Forschungsprojekts MONA - Modi nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung im Vergleich

    Jahn, S. V. (Speaker), Kahle, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Speaker), Bergmann, M. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)

    14.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Wildniskonferenz - 2010

    Hofmeister, S. (Participant)

    17.05.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Winterschool „Public Participation and Climate Protection“

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    30.03.2010

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

  9. Wirkungen von Antibiotika auf Abwasserbakterien.

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    16.06.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Wirtschaften in Netzen. Stärkung regionaler Absatzmärkte für KMU als Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung in der Region

    Lang, F. J. (Speaker) & Thiem, A. (Speaker)

    23.03.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  1. Editorial for the special issue “Scopes of the Social Imaginary in Sociology” in the ÖZS
  2. Hypothekentilgung
  3. Schwarz, N. (2008): Umweltinnovationen und Lebensstile.Eine raumbezogene empirisch fundierte Mulit-Agenten-Simulation.
  4. Mehr Gender-Strategie tut gut
  5. Permeable reactive barriers for manufactured gas plants and related sites
  6. Not Just Riot Grrrls! Punk Rock Feminism in the Philippines
  7. Later Life Workplace Index: Validation of an English Version
  8. Schöner leben
  9. Revealing the coastal event-history of the Andaman Islands (Bay of Bengal) during the Holocene using radiocarbon and OSL dating
  10. Gene tests and employees in an international comparison.
  11. Graphische Variation im Rahmen emotionaler Online-Praktiken
  12. Einflußstrukturen und ihre Bedeutung für die Entscheidungsfindung in Problemlösungsgruppen
  13. Arts Management: A Sociological Inquiry
  14. Kollektive Entscheidungsprozesse
  15. Verändern: Zielklärung, Planung und Ressourcenprüfung im persönlichen Entwicklungsplan
  16. Musiklernen am Computer
  17. Spielwelt
  18. Systemsplitter I
  19. "Zu Spät"
  20. Bildungsplanreform 2015?
  21. Organizational identity and firm growth
  22. Entwicklung eines Integrated Assessment Modells:
  23. Sustainable business models and sustainable supply chain management
  24. Plasticizer and Surfactant Formation from Food-Waste- and Algal Biomass-Derived Lipids
  25. Was vom Leben bleibt
  26. Welches Produkt ist nachhaltig?
  27. Culturally Aware Mathematics Education Technology
  28. Estimating the aquatic emissions and fate of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) into the river Rhine