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. Research Priorities in Light of the Future Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development

    Adomßent, M. (Lecturer)

    08.11.201409.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Research on Cytotoxics in the Environment.

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    16.02.200517.02.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Research on agroecosystems and socioecological resilience

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker) & Quiroga, C. (Speaker)

    22.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Research in Knowledge Management: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations

    Grunenberg, H. (Speaker)

    2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Research Group PoNa (Organisational unit)

    Hofmeister, S. (Member)

    20082013

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  6. Research Development Workshop for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research - RIHN 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    15.11.2013

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

  7. Research Development Workshop for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research - RIHN 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    14.11.201315.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Research Conference "Social & Economic Transformations Affecting Rural People and Communities in Central & Eastern Europe Since 1990" - 2013

    Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    02.09.201303.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Research Conference of the European Business Ethics Network - EBEN 2013

    Hörisch, J. (Speaker)

    06.06.201308.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Representing Future Generations Today

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    29.07.201310.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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Researchers

  1. Bettina Motschmann

Publications

  1. Interviews zum Komfort in der Flugzeugkabine
  2. Untersuchung des Abbaus der Zytostatika Ifosfamid und Cyclophosphamid mit dem Closed Bottle test (OECD 301).
  3. Effects of digital video-based feedback environments on pre-service teachers’ feedback competence
  4. Gender, Netzwerk, Aneignung. Professionalisierungsprozesse in digital-materieller Musikproduktion
  5. Das Gesetz zur Stärkung der Finanzmarktintegrität (FISG)
  6. Unternehmensrisiko Klimawandel
  7. The impact of external auditors on firms’ financial restatements.
  8. Unterrichtsqualität
  9. Frühzeitige Identifizierung des Qualifikationsbedarfes für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Berufsprofilen
  10. Widerstand und Martyrium
  11. The influence of empowering leadership on repatriate knowledge transfer
  12. Weibliche Information und männliche Unterhaltung?
  13. Der Ökowald als Baustein einer Klimaschutzstrategie
  14. What can nudging offer to reduce workplace sexual harassment?
  15. Arbeiterkultur
  16. The renewable energy sector in Afghanistan
  17. Sapere aude: Bildung und Wissen im Widerstreit?
  18. Funktion und Profil von Lehrwerken in der Epoche von Standards und Kompetenzen
  19. Entrepreneurship as an area of psychology study
  20. Critique
  21. Sprachliche Prozeduren beim fachlichen Lernen: Begründen in Mathematik
  22. Weichenstellung Kohlekonsens
  23. Reale Utopien
  24. Walt O’Disney and the Little People
  25. Vielperspektivität auch in der Forschung?
  26. Begriffe und Perspektiven des Verbandsklagerechts
  27. Wer kommt (nicht) ins Paradies?
  28. § 287 Verantwortlichkeit während des Verzugs
  29. Hochschulgovernance im Dienste der Wissenschaft
  30. Another country, another city
  31. Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Energy
  32. Governmental activity and private capital adjustment
  33. Optimierung zwischen Zwang und Zustimmung
  34. Notting Hill Gate 4
  35. From the Substantive to the Ceremonial
  36. Abschluss des Vertrages
  37. Kunst, Kritik und Stadt