School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
- 2023
The cascading impacts of biotic starting conditions on Cirsium discolor growth-reproduction trade-offs
Turner, S. (Speaker)
12.12.2023 → 15.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Webinar: Technik & Nachhaltigkeit? Die Ingenieure ohne Grenzen Challenge
Frye, S. (Speaker), Wyss, M. (Speaker) & Möller, S. (Moderator)
07.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Kommunikation und Narrative in der sozial-ökologischen Transformation
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
01.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zukunftsgerechtigkeit als Leitprinzip kommunalen Planens und Handelns
Rose, M. (Keynote Speaker)
23.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Bremer Wirtschaftswerkstatt
Möller, S. (Participant)
17.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Praxisforum: Berufsfeld kommunaler Klimaschutz
Potyka, M. (Speaker) & Möller, S. (Moderator)
16.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
GDCP Doktorierendenkolloquium 2023
List, F. (Participant)
26.10.2023 → 28.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
University of Almeria
Isaac, R. (Visiting researcher)
20.10.2023 → 10.12.2023Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
The forest beyond the trees: a network perspective on governing nature's contributions to people co-production
Isaac, R. (Speaker), Martín-López, B. (Coauthor), Kachler, J. (Coauthor), Felipe-Lucia, M. R. (Coauthor) & Cumming, G. S. (Coauthor)
19.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
IDG Summit 2023
Möller, S. (Participant)
11.10.2023 → 13.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ISEK Expert*innentagung Lüneburg
Möller, S. (Participant)
07.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Creating curricula for competence: Findings from a comparison of three sustainability graduate programs
Birdman, J. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Coauthor)
04.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Learning Change: Studentische Reallabore für BNE nutzen
Schmitt, M. (presenter), Wyss, M. (Speaker) & Möller, S. (Moderator)
04.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Peter G. Mahaffy
Kümmerer, K. (Host) & Zuin Zeidler, V. (Host)
02.10.2023 → 30.11.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (External organisation)
Fischer, D. (Member)
01.10.2023 → 30.09.2027Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
Reflexion als Schlüssel zur Erforschung von Partizipation und Heterogenität
Meyn, J. (Speaker)
29.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ungleiche Partizipationschancen in heterogenen Lerngruppen. Eine ethngrafische Studie in Klassenräten inklusiver Grundschulklassen
Meyn, J. (Speaker)
29.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wie kann eine gerechte und dezentrale Energiewende gelingen?
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
29.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Konzeption einer inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Lernumgebung im Sinne offenen Forschenden Lernens
Hofer, E. (Speaker)
28.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
17. Treffen des Netzwerkes inklusiver naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht (NinU): Digitalisierung und Inklusion
Abels, S. (Organiser), Hofer, E. (Participant), List, F. (Participant), Sowinski, R. (Participant) & Fietkau, A. (Participant)
27.09.2023 → 29.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Nach der Pandemie ist vor der Krise. Zur Förderung von Unsicherheitskompetenz mittels bedürfnisorientierter transformativer Ansätze in der BNE
Grauer, C. (Speaker)
26.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Barcamp "Vielfalt verbündet"
List, F. (Participant)
23.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Forschendes Lernen im integrativen naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht - Teil 2
Abels, S. (Speaker) & Hofer, E. (Speaker)
18.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Inklusive Gestaltung einer Einheit offenen Forschenden Lernens
Hofer, E. (Speaker) & Abels, S. (Speaker)
14.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transformation von Schule durch inklusiven Nawi-Unterricht
List, F. (Speaker) & Abels, S. (Coauthor)
13.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Entwicklung eines virtuellen Lernraums zum digitalen Kompetenzerwerb
Abels, S. (Coauthor), Hofer, E. (Coauthor), Rodenhauser, A. (Coauthor), Sowinski, R. (presenter) & Stinken-Rösner, L. (Coauthor)
12.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Herausforderungen in der Planungsphase offenen Forschenden Lernens
Fietkau, A. (presenter), Hofer, E. (Coauthor) & Abels, S. (Coauthor)
12.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
DIY-Fledermausdetektor mit Gamification-Elementen
Kasper, L. (Coauthor), Krebs, A.-K. (Speaker), Pfeifer, J. (Coauthor) & Nepper, H. H. (Coauthor)
11.09.2023 → 14.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik (GDCP) 2023: Frühe naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abels, S. (Participant), Hofer, E. (Participant), Fietkau, A. (Participant), List, F. (Participant), Sowinski, R. (Participant) & Hüfner, S. K. (Participant)
11.09.2023 → 14.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Types of institutional proxy representatives for future generations in democracies: A comparative empirical analysis
Rose, M. (Speaker)
06.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Fachinhaltliches Lernen beim offenen Experimentieren: Ergebnisse der Erprobung einer Lernumgebung zum Thema „Dem Zucker auf der Spur“
Hofer, E. (Speaker)
05.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Formaldehydbelastungen mit dem Arduino untersuchen: Eine Unterrichts- einheit mit forschendem Lernen und Wissenschaftskommunikation
Rüschenpöhler, L. (Speaker), Hofer, E. (Coauthor), Zeller, M. (Coauthor) & Bernsteiner, A. (Coauthor)
04.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum (WiFo) Chemie 2023: Rethinking Chemistry
Hofer, E. (Participant)
04.09.2023 → 06.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
One Fits Them All? – Metaphors in Multilingual Biology Classes
Sowinski, R. (Speaker) & Abels, S. (Speaker)
01.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Publishing success in ecology, and African perspective
Turner, S. (Speaker)
09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Forschendes Lernen im integrativen naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht - Teil 1
Abels, S. (Speaker) & Hofer, E. (Speaker)
28.08.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
What we know about conceptual learning in open inquiry settings in science education
Hofer, E. (Speaker)
24.08.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European Conference on Educational Research 2023
Hofer, E. (Participant)
22.08.2023 → 25.08.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Efficacy of an app-based gratitude intervention in reducing repetitive negative thinking and fostering resilience: results of a randomized controlled trial
Kalon, L. (Speaker)
20.07.2023 → 23.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Doing the right things at the right time: How negotiators make trade-offs in sequential resource allocation negotiations
Heydenbluth, C. (Speaker)
09.07.2023 → 13.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (Journal)
Rose, M. (Editor)
07.2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
“Doing Justice! Doing Just This! Understanding justice in transdisciplinary and transformative research”: LRN Summer School
Grauer, C. (Participant)
28.06.2023 → 29.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues
Newig, J. (Speaker), Rose, M. (Coauthor) & Jager, N. W. (Coauthor)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
How viable are institutional innovations for national long-term governance? Lessons from a comparative empirical analysis
Rose, M. (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
"Holzbein Kiel" oder: Wie treffen Gruppen gute Entscheidungen?
Mann, M. (Speaker), Warsitzka, M. (Speaker), Trötschel, R. (Speaker) & Hüffmeier, J. (Speaker)
22.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Negotiators' Value Creation Between Parties, Across Time
Heydenbluth, C. (Speaker)
20.06.2023 → 23.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Darmstädter Tage der Transformation 2023
Möller, S. (Speaker), Gerlach, V. (Speaker), Hitz, K. (Speaker) & Heller, P. (Speaker)
14.06.2023 → 15.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Ungleiche Partizipationschancen in heterogenen Lerngruppen
Meyn, J. (Speaker)
13.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Umkämpfte Transformation
Hartmann, E. (Speaker)
07.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Der Staat in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Saretzki, T. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Moderator)
01.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer