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. Structures and Limits of the Emerging German Sustainability State

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Mathis, O. L. (Coauthor)

    26.08.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Strengthening the rights of future generations: Governance tools towards tackling political myopia

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    17.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  3. Strengthening the coping capacity for pharmaceuticals in drinking water.

    Kümmerer, K. (presenter)

    29.05.200631.05.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  4. Strengthening the connections between educational and sustainability science

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    06.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Strategies for the Control of Water Treatment by Stripping and Injection of CO2

    Ruck, W. (Speaker) & Koch, M. (Speaker)

    30.10.199001.11.1990

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Strategien zum Umgang mit Arzneimittelwirkstoffen im Trinkwasser: Nachhaltiges Stoffdesign.

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    04.10.200606.10.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Storytelling und Nachhaltigkeit: Gut erzählt = überzeugt?

    Sundermann, A. (Speaker)

    14.11.2022

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

  8. Stories of a journey: tracing traditional knowledge associated to orphan crops across agrifood circuits in Bogota

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker)

    26.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Stolpersteine beim Arbeiten an einer Dissertation, „Methodische Grundlagen der fachdidaktischen Forschung“

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    09.07.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Stolpersteine bei der Dissertation

    Abels, S. (Speaker)

    24.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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  2. Panische züge
  3. Die Verbreitung einer wegweisenden Idee: Der Beitrag der UN-Dekade für die Diffusion von Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung
  4. Riparian Atlantic Forest restoration: water table depth and planting spacing affected the growth of planted trees
  5. Streit unter Freunden
  6. Ökonomie und Naturnutzung
  7. Notions of justice held by stakeholders of the Newfoundland fishery
  8. Kulturlandschaft – Neu entdeckt für den Geographieunterricht
  9. Computerspiele – Neue Herausforderungen für die Ethik ?
  10. American Sports begreifen
  11. Extensive margins of imports in The Great Import Recovery in Germany, 2009/2010
  12. How can sustainable chemistry contribute to a circular economy?
  13. A note on quality of a firm's exports and distance to destination countries: First evidence from Germany
  14. Parteien in parlamentarischen Demokratien: das Lebenswerk von Peter Mair
  15. PISA, NEPS und BiSta – Sind die Kompetenzmessungen in Mathematik vergleichbar?
  16. Digitales Vergessen: Deletion Impossible?
  17. Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability
  18. Smartphones im Unterricht – Wollen das Schülerinnen und Schüler überhaupt?!
  19. Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity - Ecosystem service management
  20. Bildnarrationen als Fundament zur Vermittlung von sprachlich-literarischen Kompetenzen in mehrsprachigen Klassen
  21. AEUV Art. 262 Rechtsstreitigkeiten im Bereich des geistigen Eigentums
  22. Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung der DAX-30 Unternehmen im Internet
  23. Selbständigkeit gefragt
  24. Baseflow recession analysis for flood-prone black sea watersheds in Turkey
  25. Lewis A. Coser. Refugee scholars in America: Their impact and their experiences. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. xviii + 351 pp. (cloth)
  26. Aufschwung und Höhepunkte der Rockkultur
  27. Media Review: Contemporary Art as Collective Organizing (and its Contradictions)
  28. Sustainability Management in Business Enterprises
  29. Lautheitsurteil und akustischer Kontext
  30. Zwischen Ehrenamt und Berufspolitik