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. Control and Sovereignty via Blockchains

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    22.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Contributions of Educational Measures to the Promotion of Sustainable Consumption among Youths and Young Adults

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    24.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Continuous culture of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii

    Pleissner, D. (Speaker) & Eriksen, N. T. (Speaker)

    07.06.201010.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Consumers versus prosumers: using a storytelling approach to understand consumers’ attitudes towards business models in energy storage

    Bögel, P. M. (Speaker), Shahrokni, H. (Speaker), Upham, P. J. (Speaker) & Kordas, O. (Speaker)

    08.11.201809.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Consumer engagement and behavioral response management, presentation, invited panel session (InteGrid – Insight a Horizon 2020-project)

    Bögel, P. M. (Speaker)

    10.09.201812.09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Constitutions, Democratic Self-Determination and the Institutional Empowerment of Future Generations: Mitigating an Aporia

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    08.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Conflicts on shaping societies' relations to nature on a local level. The example of agricultural biotechnology

    Friedrich, B. (Speaker)

    03.06.201207.06.2012

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

  8. Conference Transdisciplinary Intercultural Ecological Research for Sustainability - TIERS 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    08.06.201210.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Conference "Sustainability Transformation"

    Engbers, M. (Speaker)

    11.12.201712.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Conference Sustainability and me

    Fischer, D. (Organiser)

    17.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch