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. Digitale NAWIgation von Inklusion

    Abels, S. (Keynote speaker), Stinken-Rösner, L. (Keynote speaker) & Hofer, E. (Participant)

    11.06.202112.06.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. Digitalität und Abstraktion

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    24.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Diskussion "Gute Arbeit ohne Wachstum? Ansatzpunkte für eine nachhaltige Gestaltung der Arbeit" - 2015

    Hofmeister, S. (presenter)

    06.11.201507.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Dispersal: Islands, invasions and succession

    Turner, S. (Oral presentation)

    09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Dissemination of Environmental Management Accounting in South-East Asia

    Herzig, C. (Speaker) & Viere, T. (Speaker)

    04.03.200405.03.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Distance education for Local Authorities as a strategic tool for sustainable development.

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    20.06.199924.06.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Distributing responsibility for the provision of public goods

    Fünfgelt, J. (Speaker)

    16.02.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Diversitasc (External organisation)

    Martín-López, B. (Member)

    20132018

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  9. Diversität und Heterogenität – eine theoretische und normative Verortung im Naturwissenschaftsunterricht

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    19.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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  1. Informationsströme in digitalen Kulturen
  2. "Voice"
  3. Bilder – Bücher
  4. Lekcja 23-24
  5. Freiheit der Kunst durch freie Werke?
  6. Rise and Shine
  7. Vorabentscheidungsverfahren, schriftliches Verfahren
  8. The granular nature of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
  9. § 16
  10. Collective Litigation in German Civil Procedure
  11. Bildkompetenz
  12. Der Strommarkt in Europa zwischen Liberalisierung und Klimaschutz
  13. Demokratiekompetenz als berufliche Handlungskompetenz
  14. Powder Metallurgically Manufactured Metal Matrix Composites
  15. Landwirtschaft:
  16. Sustainable Finance
  17. The Psychological Actions and Entrepreneurial Success
  18. Written Reasoning in Primary School
  19. In 10 Schritten mit Kindern zum Stab(hoch)springen
  20. Raus aus der Opferrolle!
  21. § 46 Windenergie an Land bis 2018
  22. Der Netzausbau gelingt nur mit mehr Wettbewerb und stärkerer Regulierung
  23. Kreativität im Englischunterricht
  24. [Review] Tracy McDonald e Daniel Vandersommers (a cura di), Zoo Studies. A New Humanities, Montreal, McGill¿Queen¿s University Press, 2019, 345 pp.
  25. RITUAL WITHOUT COMMITMENT - THE 3RD DIRECT EUROPEAN-PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS
  26. Treffen der Generationen
  27. Inquiry-based learning and secondary chemistry education – a contradiction?
  28. The tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of the southern Levant and adjacent territories
  29. Schulleitung in Deutschland
  30. Wege der Anti-Dialektik
  31. Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms
  32. Ungewolltes Lernen als Risiko im Hause des Lernens
  33. Water, Rivers and Wetlands
  34. Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation