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. Nature Sustainability (Journal)

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    01.12.2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  2. Nature-Gender-Relations within the Agrarian Change - the Example of Agrobiodiversity

    Burandt, A. (Speaker) & Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    02.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Natural Resources Forum (Journal)

    Engler, J.-O. (Editorial Board)

    30.11.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  4. Natural Resources Forum (Journal)

    Engler, J.-O. (Reviewer)

    2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  5. Natural habitat and orchard management can benefit wild insect pollinators and fruit set in California almond

    Brittain, C. (Coauthor)

    29.02.201202.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    26.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Nationale Abschlusskonferenz zur UN-Dekade "Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" 2014

    Fischer, D. (Organiser)

    29.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. Nationale Abschlusskonferenz zur UN-Dekade "Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" 2014

    Bruhn, K. (Speaker)

    29.09.2014

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

  9. National Autonomous University of Mexico

    Lam, D. (Visiting researcher)

    02.01.202031.03.2020

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  10. Narrations and documentations - the emigration and adoption of Afro-German children to Scandinavia after World II

    Golly, N. (Speaker)

    06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch