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. 2016
  2. Deciphering Sustainable Consumption: Understanding, Motives and Heuristic Cues in the Context of Personal Care Product. Poster Presentation

    Moser, A. K. (Speaker)

    24.05.201627.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  3. Digitalität und Abstraktion

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    24.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. 6th International Conference on Engineering for Waste and Biomass Valorisation - WasteEng2016

    Pleißner, D. (presenter)

    23.05.201626.05.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Fermentative production of lactic acid and biogas from food waste: preliminary tests.

    Demichelis, F. (Speaker), Pleißner, D. (Speaker), Venus, J. (Speaker) & Fiore, S. (Speaker)

    23.05.201625.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum)

    Bergmann, M. (Speaker), Jahn, S. V. (Speaker) & Kahle, J. (Speaker)

    23.05.201631.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  7. SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting

    Wieck, S. (presenter)

    22.05.201626.05.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. ELTT - Enabling Leadership for Transformational Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    20.05.2016

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

  9. The view of the young generation on (E)SD in Germany

    Michelsen, G. (Speaker)

    20.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. University of Vienna

    Vilsmaier, U. (Visiting researcher)

    17.05.201617.06.2016

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  11. Hochschulen und Nachhaltigkeit: Österreichische Hochschulen machen sich auf den Weg

    Michelsen, G. (Lecturer)

    03.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer