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.
Topics
Als Träger der universitätsweiten Wissenschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung fragt die Fakultät nach Bedingungen und Chancen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Fakultät verbindet dazu Human- und Naturwissenschaften mit derzeit etwa 25 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Chemie, Informatik, Kommunikation, Management, Ökologie, Philosophie, Planung, Politik, Psychologie, Recht, Technik und VWL. Die transdisziplinären Arbeitsweisen in Forschung, Studium und Dienstleistungen zielen insbesondere darauf, zukünftige Entwicklungschancen für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts zu schaffen und zu erhalten.
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (External organisation)
Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Member)
17.07.2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Programme of Ecosystems Change and Society (PECS) (External organisation)
Berta Martín-López (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Research Group PoNa (Organisational unit)
Sabine Hofmeister (Member)
2008 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Stiftung Deutscher Küstenschutz (External organisation)
Birgitt Brinkmann (Executive member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Stiftung Deutscher Küstenschutz (External organisation)
Birgitt Brinkmann (Member)
2004 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Stiftung Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis e.V. (External organisation)
Stefan Schaltegger (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
The German Educational Research Association (External organisation)
Sonja Richter (Member)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (External organisation)
Gerd Michelsen (Member)
2006 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
University of Bremen (External organisation)
Sabine Hofmeister (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)
Sandra Hunning (Member) & Tanja Mölders (Member)
07.2017Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbH (External organisation)
Sabine Hofmeister (Member)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Amu Darya River Basin Network (External organisation)
Oliver Olsson (Member)
2010 → 2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
BNE-Netzwerk der Region Lüneburg (External organisation)
Kirsten Bruhn (Member)
2018Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Conference - Global Economic Symposium 2010 (GES) (Event)
Stefan Schaltegger (Member)
28.09.2010 → 29.09.2010Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Co-production in nature conservation (Event)
Maraja Riechers (Member)
14.07.2018 → 18.07.2018Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie e.V. (External organisation)
Annemarie Burandt (Member)
06.2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie e.V. (External organisation)
Tanja Mölders (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie e.V. (External organisation)
Anna Urszula Szumelda (Member)
06.2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Die Deutsche Schulakademie gGmbH (External organisation)
Lydia Kater-Wettstädt (Member)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) (External organisation)
Felipe Benra (Chair)
31.01.2019 → 26.10.2022Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
EMAN (External organisation)
Stefan Schaltegger (Chair)
2003 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
European Educational Research Association (EERA) (External organisation)
Anna Sundermann (Member)
13.09.2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (External organisation)
Sabine Hofmeister (Member)
2010 → 2015Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Förderverein Wachstumswende e.V. (External organisation)
Anna Urszula Szumelda (Member)
10.2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Forschungs- und Entwicklungsteam NetzwerG (Organisational unit)
Simone Abels (Member)
2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung (External organisation)
Daniela Gottschlich (Member)
2002 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
France Committee Future Earth (External organisation)
Berta Martín-López (Member)
01.12.2013 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (External organisation)
Nadine Golly (Member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Future Earth Knowledge Action Network "Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production" (External organisation)
Daniel Fischer (Chair)
2017 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
GREEN BRANDS Organisation GmbH (External organisation)
Stefan Schaltegger (Member)
2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Hans E. Moppert-Stiftung (External organisation)
Stefan Schaltegger (Member)
2008 → 2014Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
ICSS (External organisation)
Stefan Schaltegger (Member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Energy Agency - Solar Heating & Cooling Programme (External organisation)
Holger Urs Rammelberg (Member)
2011 → 31.12.2012Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Energy Agency - Solar Heating & Cooling Programme (External organisation)
Holger Urs Rammelberg (Member)
01.01.2013 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Joachim Herz Stiftung (External organisation)
Lisa Stinken-Rösner (Member)
2020Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Karlstad University (External organisation)
Mariele Evers (Coordinator)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Leibniz University Hanover (External organisation)
Simone Abels (Coordinator)
03.2016 → 2021Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Network 30 "Environmental and Sustainability Research - ESER" (External organisation)
Kirsten Bruhn (Member)
2015Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers (External organisation)
Daniel Pleißner (Member)
01.09.2016 → 31.08.2017Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften (External organisation)
Sabine Hofmeister (Chair)
1992 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften (External organisation)
Tanja Mölders (Member)
2003 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Oikos International (External organisation)
Stefan Schaltegger (Member)
2009 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Partnership for Education and Research for Responsible Living (External organisation)
Daniel Fischer (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Scientific Steering Committee Schweden (External organisation)
Berta Martín-López (Member)
01.11.2014 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Zürich- ETH Zürich (External organisation)
Simon Burandt (Member)
06.2003 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
Universität Zürich (External organisation)
Simone Abels (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Université de Liège (External organisation)
Wolf-Ulrich Palm (Coordinator)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
University Of Applied Sciences Kiel (External organisation)
Sabine Hofmeister (Member)
2009 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
University Of Applied Sciences Kiel (External organisation)
Tanja Mölders (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
University of Bielefeld (External organisation)
Martin Winands (Member)
01.02.2006Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research