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. GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum (WiFo) Chemie 2023: Rethinking Chemistry

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    04.09.202306.09.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011

    Mahmoud, W. M. M. (Speaker)

    04.07.201109.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Gastvorlesung: Welt im Grid. Zur Poetologie der meteorologischen Simulation

    Schrickel, I. (Lecturer)

    04.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Gamification für den Artenschutz der Fledermaus nutzen

    Krebs, A.-K. (Speaker)

    12.01.202515.01.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Gamification as a tool to increase species protection awareness for bats

    Krebs, A.-K. (Speaker)

    03.07.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. GAIA (Journal)

    Michelsen, G. (Editorial Board)

    20072013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  7. GAIA (Journal)

    Kümmerer, K. (Editorial Board)

    2009 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  8. GAC Mitgliederversammlung

    Aßmann, T. (Oral presentation), Boutaud, E. (Oral presentation), Harry, I. (Speaker), Drees, C. (Speaker), Buse, J. (Speaker), Vermeulen, R. (Speaker), Kaiser, M. (Speaker) & Irmler, U. (Speaker)

    14.02.202016.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Future Scenarios and Ecosystem Services 2010

    Burandt, S. (Speaker)

    02.08.201004.08.2010

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

  10. Future Earth Secretariat Stockholm (External organisation)

    Fischer, D. (Chair)

    2017 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

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Publications

  1. Auf den Spuren von Heinrich Heine – Potentiale der virtuellen Schnitzeljagd Actionbound für den Literaturunterricht in der Sekundarstufe 1
  2. Buch 11. Justizielle Zusammenarbeit in der Europäischen Union
  3. Kritik postdigital
  4. Gravierende Irrtümer der Flusskonferenz vom 15. September 2002
  5. Motiv-Tätigkeitskongruenzen in nachberuflicher Arbeitstätigkeit
  6. "Semisouverän" und doch anpassungsfähig
  7. Stranger Things (2016)
  8. Mathematikbezogene Selbsteinschätzungen und Testbereitschaft von Erwachsenen
  9. Die Karl-Franzens Universität Graz auf dem Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit
  10. Climate Costs and Benefits
  11. Die Berufsstruktur des Deutschen Bundestages – 14. und 15. Wahlperiode
  12. Biokohle in der Landwirtschaft als Klimaretter?
  13. Management in NPO. Entwurf einer Forschungslandkarte
  14. Wie lange noch? Wie teuer? Wie spät?
  15. Unterricht theorie- und evidenzbasiert analysieren und gestalten.
  16. Geschlechtergerechtigkeit
  17. Part II: Strange Company Coming Over
  18. Universitäten auf dem Weg in die Zukunft
  19. Notwendige Differenzbearbeitungen
  20. Biogasanlagen
  21. Editorial: Vigilantismus
  22. International Human Resource Management and the formation of cross-cultural competence
  23. Kwame Gyekye’s Critical Dialogue with Kant’s Ethics and its Political Consequences
  24. Nutzung und Wirkung eines kognitiv aktivierenden Unterrichts bei nicht-gymnasialen Schülerinnen und Schülern
  25. Unterrichtsdiagnostik – Voraussetzung für die Verbesserung der Unterrichtsqualität
  26. Ecopreneure haben eine Schlüsselrolle
  27. Berufliche Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Whole School Approach und Unterrichtsgestaltung an berufsbildenden Schulen
  28. Policy, politics and polity in higher education for sustainable development
  29. Factors influencing local ecological knowledge maintenance in Mediterranean watersheds
  30. A health economic outcome evaluation of an internet-based mobile-supported stress management intervention for employees
  31. Erdölmärkte zwischen Corona-Krise, Preiskrieg und Förderkürzung
  32. LFB-Labs-digital: Schülerlabore als Ort der Lehrkräftefortbildung in der digitalen Welt
  33. Zukunftscamp – Future Now 2007
  34. Werkzeugkiste: 26. Action Learning (AL)
  35. Accounting towards Sustainability in Production and Supply Chains
  36. Emotion regulation mediates the effect of childhood trauma on depression
  37. How Does Sustainability Performance Relate to Business Competitiveness?