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. Wrapping up the Results of the 1st stage of the Biodiversity Ecosystem Functioning Experiment - BEF-China 2011

    Aßmann, T. (Speaker)

    02.05.201106.05.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH (External organisation)

    Hofmeister, S. (Member)

    2011 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  3. WZB-Kongress „Bürgergesellschaft – Wunsch und Wirklichkeit“ - 2006

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    19.10.2006

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

  4. XENOWAC II - 2018

    Kümmerer, K. (Keynote Speaker)

    10.10.201812.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Xerochore Final Conference on Supporting Drought Policies in Europe - 2010

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    22.02.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology of the International Rural Sociology Association - IRSA 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Organiser), Mölders, T. (Organiser), Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)

    02.08.201203.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. XIV International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory - 2010

    Olbrich, R. (presenter)

    16.06.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. XIX INQUA Congress - 2015

    Proborukmi, M. S. (Speaker) & Urban, B. (Speaker)

    26.07.201502.08.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. XV General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology - EAESP 2008

    Trötschel, R. (Speaker)

    10.06.200815.06.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. XVI World Water Congress 2017

    Wieck, S. (presenter)

    29.05.201703.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch