School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Faculty
- 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.
- Conferences
7th International Conference on the Geology of Africa - GOA 2014
Brigitte Urban (Participant)
24.11.2014 → 26.11.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th International Environmental Management Leadership Symposium - 2011
Dorli Harms (Speaker)
02.05.2011 → 03.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th Workshop of the Forum on Sustainable Technological Development in a Globalising World - 2010
Verena Holz (Speaker)
09.06.2010 → 12.06.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th World Congress on Stress - 2010
Corinna Peifer (presenter)
25.08.2010 → 27.08.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
84th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International - WEAI 2009
Abul Maala Tanvir Hussain (presenter)
29.06.2009 → 03.07.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8. Assembly of the Biodiversity Exploratories
Thorsten Aßmann (Speaker)
14.02.2011 → 18.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8. Jahrestagung der Nachwuchsgruppe Umweltsoziologie - DGS 2011
Anke Schmidt (Organiser) & Isabella Wedl (Organiser)
07.10.2011 → 08.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8. Krankenhaus-Umwelttag NRW 2012
Oliver Olsson (Speaker)
25.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference 2014
Janina Dannenberg (presenter)
06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8th EABIS Annual Colloquium 2009
Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)
20.09.2009 → 21.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8th International Conference on Biobased Materials - 2015
Daniel Pleißner (Speaker)
30.04.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) - 2010
Sara Leonhardt (Opponent)
01.08.2010 → 06.08.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
99th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America - ESA 2014
Richard Bolek (Coauthor)
13.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
9. Tagung "Grenzenlose Verfügbarkeit strategischer Metalle?" - 2011
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
31.01.2011 → 01.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
9th International Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics - ESEE 2011
Nikolai Hoberg (Speaker)
14.06.2011 → 17.06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
9th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts - 2019
Astrid Lindner (presenter)
17.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
9th Oikos PhD Summer Academy - 2008
Florian Lüdeke-Freund (Speaker)
25.08.2008 → 29.08.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Abfallvermeidungs- Dialoge 4/5 - 2015
Thomas Schomerus (Speaker)
11.11.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Abschlusskonferenz des Projektes KUNTIKUM 2009
Simon Burandt (presenter)
21.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Abschlusssymposium der Initiative Nachhaltigkeit & Journalismus - 2015
Daniel Fischer (Speaker)
07.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Abschlusstagung des DFG-Projektverbundes „Konstituierung von Kulturlandschaft - KULAKon“ 2011
Tanja Mölders (Participant)
12.05.2011 → 13.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Abschlussveranstaltung des Lehrgangs BINE Österreich und des Lehrgangs BINE Kroatien
Ute Stoltenberg (Speaker)
15.01.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ACHEMA 2009
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
11.05.2009 → 15.05.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
„Adopteret fra Tyskland. Dem hører man ikke så meget om, men vi er en del faktisk.“ The hidden experiences of Afro-Germans in the Danish adoption discourse 2008
Nadine Golly (Speaker)
10.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Altlastensymposium der ingenieurtechnischen Vereinigung Altlasten - ITVA 2012
Joachim Sanden (Speaker)
22.03.2012 → 23.03.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ANAKON 2015
Waleed M. M. Mahmoud (presenter)
23.03.2015 → 26.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Anhörung zur Energiewende 2012
Sina Bernotat (Organiser)
08.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
AN(N)O 2013
Susanne Offen (Speaker)
19.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Annual African Disapora Studies Symposium 2011
Nadine Golly (Speaker)
03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual conference of the German Geographical Society 2012
Ed Challies (presenter)
10.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management - IACM 2006
Roman Trötschel (Speaker)
25.06.2006 → 28.06.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Conference of the Society for Business Ethics - 2010
Markus Beckmann (Speaker)
07.08.2010 → 10.08.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society 2012
Anika Hudewenz (Coauthor)
17.12.2012 → 20.12.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases - 2007
Klaus Kümmerer (presenter)
02.05.2007 → 04.05.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics - 2011
Markus Beckmann (Speaker)
12.08.2011 → 14.08.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
AnSCHub Konferenz - 2010
Anica Zeyen (Organiser) & Markus Beckmann (Organiser)
02.06.2010 → 04.06.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
“Aprender y enseñar sustentabilidad en la educación superior: experiencias, oportunidades y desafíos para el Buen Vivir”
Simon Burandt (presenter)
30.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Arbeitstagung Lernortwechsel - 2015
Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)
17.04.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ARL-Kongress 2012
Sabine Hofmeister (Moderator)
21.06.2012 → 22.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Association of the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education - AASHE 2015
Beatrice John (Speaker)
26.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Audits, Siegel, Zertifikate - Glaubwürdige Nachhaltigkeit? - 2011
Johanna Klewitz (Participant)
10.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bad Honnef Symposium der Paul-Ehrlich-Gesellschaft 2008
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
17.03.2008 → 18.03.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Barcamp "Vielfalt verbündet"
Florian List (Participant)
23.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
BEIDS, Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" - CLIMATE2009
Simon Burandt (presenter)
02.11.2009 → 06.11.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Berliner Abfallrechtstage 2009
Thomas Schomerus (Speaker)
19.11.2009 → 20.11.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Berliner Energietage - 2011
Oliver Opel (Speaker) & Wolfgang Ruck (Speaker)
18.05.2011 → 20.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
BESSER nutzen, Der Dialog.6 - 2015
Thomas Schomerus (Speaker)
23.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Biannual Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics - ISEE 2014
Abul Maala Tanvir Hussain (presenter)
13.08.2014 → 15.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in Schulen - 2013
Ute Stoltenberg (Organiser)
09.01.2013 → 10.01.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung an Hochschulen
Daniel Fischer (Speaker)
14.04.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung für Lehrende und MultiplikatorInnen - 2019
Lydia Kater-Wettstädt (Speaker)
05.03.2019 → 06.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Elementarbereich 2009
Ute Stoltenberg (Speaker)
26.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bildungsveranstaltung der Fachschaft WiSo des Cusanuswerks
Markus Beckmann (Speaker)
28.10.2010 → 30.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Biodiversity hotspots - evolution and conservation 2009
Thorsten Aßmann (Organiser)
26.03.2009 → 28.03.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013
Daniel Pleißner (Chair)
01.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
‘Black Is…Black Ain’t.” Reconceptualizing the African Diaspora 2011
Nadine Golly (Speaker)
03.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
BNE-Tagung Januar - 2013
Verena Holz (Moderator)
11.01.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bonner Akademischer Sommer der Wissenschaftsförderung der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe 2008
Thomas Schomerus (Speaker)
02.06.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance - ESG 2021
Jens Newig (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Organiser)
09.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bridging Education and Science for Sustainable Development -2015
Daniel Fischer (Speaker)
02.12.2015 → 03.12.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
British Academy of Management - BAM 2012
Sarah Elena Windolph (Speaker)
12.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Brush up zu KODE© und KODEX© 2011
Anja Thiem (Speaker)
15.10.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Centrum für Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung (CeLeB) Konferenz - 2020
Lisa Stinken-Rösner (Participant)
2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
CHANGE Expertenworkshop 2008
Simon Burandt (presenter)
03.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Chemical Innovation Exchange - CIEX 2019
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
09.10.2019 → 10.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
CleanMed Europe - 2006
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
29.05.2006 → 31.05.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Coastal Zone Canada - CZC 2014
Gesa Lüdecke (Speaker)
17.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Colloquium - Motivation Psychology Colloquium
Gabriella Etmektsoglou (Organiser) & Timur Sevincer (Organiser)
10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Colloquium of the National Institute of Biology and Department of Biology at University of Ljubljana 2011
Thorsten Aßmann (Speaker)
30.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations. Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanitites 2011
Nadine Golly (Organiser)
06.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Colorado Conference on Earth System Governance - 2011
Anke Schmidt (Speaker)
17.05.2011 → 20.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
COMPETENCE 2016
Daniel Fischer (Coauthor)
19.10.2016 → 21.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
COMPETENCE 2016
Anna Sundermann (presenter)
19.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference - 8th Entrepreneurship-as-Practice Conference
Boukje Cnossen (Organiser), Orla Byrne (Organiser), Steffen Farny (Organiser), Ellen Nathues (Organiser), Svenja Mareike Racine Rehwinkel (Organiser) & Neil Thompson (Organiser)
29.03.2023 → 31.03.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference - Equity Perspectives on Global Ocean Law and Governance
Miriam Köster (Organiser), Katherine Sammler (Organiser) & Valentin Schatz (Organiser)
07.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Conference of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network - EMAN Asia-Pacific 2013
Dimitar Zvezdov (Speaker)
14.07.2013 → 15.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference of the European Science Education Research Association 2017
Elisabeth Hofer (Participant)
21.08.2017 → 25.08.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modeling - 2013
Lotte Marie Lutz (Participant)
10.04.2013 → 11.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modelling - 2013
Ulli Vilsmaier (Chair)
10.04.2013 → 11.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference »radius of art« 2012
Sacha Kagan (Moderator) & Ute Stoltenberg (Participant)
08.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference Sustainability and me
Daniel Fischer (Organiser)
17.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Sustainability Transformation"
Moritz Engbers (Speaker)
11.12.2017 → 12.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference Transdisciplinary Intercultural Ecological Research for Sustainability - TIERS 2012
Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)
08.06.2012 → 10.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Control transfers and remediation across the Upper Rhine. Scientific and technical conference in the framework of the Science Week Upper Rhine 2012
Lukasz Gutowski (presenter)
09.10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Convegno internazionale WWW.World Wide Women. - 2011
Christine Katz (Speaker)
10.02.2011 → 12.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Corporate Responsibility Research Conference - CRRC 2017
Ferdinand Revellio (Speaker) & Erik Hansen (Speaker)
13.09.2017 → 15.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Cradle to Cradle Forschungskolloquium - 2021
Michael Braungart (Organiser)
30.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Cross-national gender research
Carolin Schuster (Keynote speaker)
03.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das Geschlecht der Zeit - 2013
Sabine Hofmeister (Organiser)
19.04.2013 → 21.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das Geschlecht der Zeit. Nachhaltigkeit – Geschlechterverhältnisse – Zeitvielfalt? - 2013
Tanja Mölders (Participant)
19.04.2013 → 21.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das inklusive Klassenzimmer - 2018
Simone Abels (Organiser), Nora Benitt (Organiser), Michael Besser (Organiser), Steffen Greve (Organiser), Torben Schmidt (Organiser) & Jessica Süßenbach (Organiser)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Dealing with Climate Change. Calculus & Catastrophe in the Age of Simulation - 2015
Isabell Schrickel (Organiser)
25.06.2015 → 26.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Decentralised Integrated ANalysis and Enhancement of Awareness through Collaborative Modelling and Management of Flood Risk
Mariele Evers (Speaker)
19.10.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Decentralised Integrated Analysis and Enhancement of Awareness through Collaborative Modelling and Management of Flood Risk [DIANE-CM] 2009
Mariele Evers (presenter)
20.10.2009 → 21.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Dechema Himmelfahrtstagung "Scale-up and scale-down of bioprocesses"
Daniel Pleißner (presenter)
11.05.2015 → 13.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Degrowth als Chance - auch für Natur und Landschaft? 2011
Anna Urszula Szumelda (Participant)
16.02.2011 → 18.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Der Staat in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Moderator)
01.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Deutscher Baubetriebs- und Baurechtstag 2017
Carolin Schuster (Coauthor)
01.09.2017 → 02.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall Landesverbandstagung Nord DWA 2011
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
06.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
DFG-NSF Research Conference “Sustainable Use of Nanomaterials for Novel Engineering Solutions” 2009
Klaus Kümmerer (Speaker)
14.10.2009 → 17.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research