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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  2. Pollination of Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense: Two new potential oil crop species in Germany

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Speaker)

    11.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Science and Practitioners: Transdisciplinary research a bridge to create socially robust knowledge

    Brandt, P. (Speaker) & Gralla, F. (Speaker)

    11.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. The Impact of Television Program on Individual Action for Climate Protection regarding Adolescents in Germany

    Lüdecke, G. (Speaker)

    11.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Bear activity in traditional woodpastures in souther Transylvania, Romania

    von Wehrden, H. (presenter)

    10.09.201214.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. Developing robust field survey protocols in landscape ecology: A case study on birds, plants and butterflies

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    10.09.201214.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Different responses of ant species to sugars and amino acids in a subtropical forest of China 

    Staab, M. (Coauthor)

    10.09.201214.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. „Erkennen, Untersuchen, Modellieren – Vom Nutzen des Verstehens“

    Kümmerer, K. (Participant), Rastogi, T. (Participant), Menz, J. (Participant), Toolaram, A. P. (Participant), Leder, C. (Participant) & Bolek, R. (Participant)

    10.09.201213.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Landscape effects on bird and rodent cummunities and seed predation to agriculture in Israel

    von Wehrden, H. (Speaker)

    10.09.201214.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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  7. Human Empowerment and Trust in Strangers
  8. Following Health Measures in the Pandemic
  9. The distribution of income of self-employed, entrepreneurs and professions as revealed from micro income tax statistics in Germany
  10. Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services
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  16. The Top 100 Companies Panel Database
  17. Time zones and German exports
  18. Zur Aktualität von Erving Goffman
  19. The role of past interactions in great apes' communication about absent entities
  20. Schwerpunkt
  21. Entropy
  22. Äußere Souveränität
  23. Sachunterricht: Fundstücke aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
  24. Forschung lernen durch Forschendes Lernen
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  26. Akademisches Schreiben lehren und lernen
  27. Betriebliche Weiterbildung und der Verbleib Älterer im Betrieb
  28. Das Märchen vom Widerstand
  29. Ambulantisierung der Jugendhilfe - Entwicklungsmöglichkeit oder Sackgasse
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  31. Abschluss des Vertrages