School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Bundestreffen des Vereins Frauen im Forstbereich - 2005
Katz, C. (Organiser)
16.09.2005 → 18.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Case-based Mutual Learning Session to Strengthen Familiy Farming in Colombia
Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)
31.03.2016 → 01.04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Case Study als Lehr- und Lernmethode - 2011
Burandt, S. (Participant)
18.01.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
CHE-Bildungsveranstaltung Forum "Exzellente Nachwuchsförderung" - 2011
Thiem, A. (Participant)
12.04.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Colombian rural development and land tenure conflicts 2011
Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Organiser)
19.07.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Conference on Participatory Approaches in Science & Technology - PATH 2006
Newig, J. (Speaker)
04.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Conference »radius of art« 2012
Holz, V. (Participant)
08.02.2012 → 09.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Co-Production of Knowledge
Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Organiser), Apetrei, C. (Moderator), Fischer, J. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)
05.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Co-Production of Tools and Strategies to Upscale the Local Model of the Viscri Association by Involving a Policy Expert
Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Organiser), Lang, D. J. (Speaker), Peukert, D. (Participant), Lam, D. (Organiser) & Fischer, J. (Organiser)
20.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
DAAD Workshop Tunesien
Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)
27.11.2018 → 29.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Democracy and Intergenerational Justice: Overcoming Harmful Short-termism Through New Institutions?
Hoffmann, J. M. (Organiser), Leung, G.-K. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Organiser)
08.09.2020 → 09.09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Deutscher Naturschutzring Seminar - 2010
Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)
01.03.2010 → 02.03.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Deutscher Naturschutzring Seminar - 2010
Friedrich, B. (Participant)
01.03.2010 → 02.03.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Die Forschungsseminare des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte 2009- Lund Universität
Golly, N. (Speaker)
18.03.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Doctoral Colloquium of the Leibniz Research Alliance on Energy Transitions
Derwort, P. (Speaker)
23.04.2018 → 24.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
“Doing Justice! Doing Just This! Understanding justice in transdisciplinary and transformative research”: LRN Summer School
Grauer, C. (Participant)
28.06.2023 → 29.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Ecology & Evolution, Lecture series 2012
Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)
05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Education for Sustainable Lifestyles
Fischer, D. (Participant)
31.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
ELTT - Enabling Leadership for Transformational Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
20.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
„Empirische Forschung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Themen, Methoden und Trends”
Sundermann, A. (Participant)
21.07.2014 → 29.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
ESERA Summer School 2016
Hofer, E. (Participant)
21.08.2016 → 26.08.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
ESERA Summer School 2017
Hüfner, S. (Speaker)
28.06.2017 → 04.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Ethics Education Workshop: Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsethik in der wirt-schaftswissenschaftlichen Ausbildung 2008
Beckmann, M. (Speaker)
24.07.2008 → 26.07.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
ETH Zürich World Food System Center Summer School - 2013
Velten, S. (Participant)
11.08.2013 → 25.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Expertenworkshop: Nachhaltigkeit kommunizieren - interdisziplinäre Zugänge
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
01.10.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Field weeks in the district of Oldenburg, Germany
Engbers, M. (Participant)
12.06.2017 → 21.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Forschendes Lernen im inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht
Hofer, E. (Speaker)
21.11.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Forschungskolloquium am Institut für Soziologie an der Jagiellonen Universität 2012
Mölders, T. (Participant)
18.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Fortbildungsbildungsreihe "Das Leben gestalten lernen" des Bildungszentrums für Natur, Umwelt und ländliche Räume (BNUR) des Landes Schleswig-Holstein - 2015
Fischer, D. (Speaker)
27.02.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Forum: Haushalt(en) im Hinblick auf Gleichstellung und Vielfalt in der Reihe
Heilmann, S. (Speaker)
05.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Fostering R&D-cooperations between German and Russian stakeholders in the bioeconomy, especially in the industrial biotech area
Pleißner, D. (Speaker)
04.12.2014 → 06.12.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Future Scenarios and Ecosystem Services 2010
Burandt, S. (Speaker)
02.08.2010 → 04.08.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
GDCP Doktorierendenkolloquium 2015
Hofer, E. (Speaker)
23.10.2015 → 25.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
German Future Earth Summit - 2016
Vilsmaier, U. (Moderator)
28.01.2016 → 29.01.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Gesellschaft für Didaktik des Sachunterrichts Doktorand*innenarbeitstagung - GDSU 2015
Bruhn, K. (Speaker)
20.11.2015 → 21.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
GESIS-ZUMA-Workshop 2008
Burandt, S. (Participant)
10.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Gesprächs- und Verhandlungsführung
Burandt, S. (Participant)
07.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Gesprächs- und Verhandlungsführung, Vertiefung
Burandt, S. (Participant)
20.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
GIS program – Geographischer Informationssyteme
Pereira Peixoto, M. H. (Participant)
18.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Global Environmental Governance - GEG 2010
Isaac, R. (Participant)
19.10.2020 → 24.10.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
"Global Environmental Justice”: A Constructive Exchange between Political Philosophy and Social Science - 2013
Stumpf, K. H. (Speaker)
26.04.2013 → 27.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Graduate Spring Seminar in Methodology - GSSM 2008
Burandt, S. (Participant)
03.03.2008 → 14.03.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Harvard Modern Sciences Working Group
Schrickel, I. (Participant)
04.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Hochschuldidaktische Weiterbildung - 2007
Burandt, S. (Participant)
29.10.2007 → 31.10.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Hochsitz für Innovationspotentiale
Engbers, M. (Participant)
06.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
How could this success model of the Agro-Eco-Viscri farming association (experience and knowledge) could be consolidated and transferred/adapted to Alma Vii?
Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (Organiser), Lang, D. J. (Speaker), Fischer, J. (Organiser), Peukert, D. (Speaker) & Lam, D. (Organiser)
21.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Impulse für die Projektforschung 2008
Burandt, S. (Participant)
2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Indigenous representative at COP23 2017, Weaving Ties
Lam, D. (Speaker)
15.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Innovationsverbund Nachhaltiger Mittelstand 2012
Klewitz, J. (Moderator)
21.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Insect Chemical Ecology 2014 - Doctoral Course - ICE 2014
Delory, B. (Coauthor)
01.06.2014 → 15.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research