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. 2020
  2. GDCP Jahrestagung 2020

    Stinken-Rösner, L. (Participant)

    14.09.202017.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Democracy and Intergenerational Justice: Overcoming Harmful Short-termism Through New Institutions?

    Hoffmann, J. M. (Organiser), Leung, G.-K. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Organiser)

    08.09.202009.09.2020

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

  4. 1. Circular Economy Kongress 2020

    Braungart, M. (Keynote Speaker)

    04.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  5. 1. Circular Economy Kongress 2020

    Braungart, M. (Participant)

    04.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  6. How to educate the educators of tomorrow. Teacher education for sustainable development – inquiries, insights and implications.

    Brandt, J.-O. (Speaker) & Bürgener, L. (Speaker)

    01.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Institutionenübergreifende Entwicklungsteams als Formate transdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit.

    Bürgener, L. (Speaker)

    01.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Promoting the SDGs through transdisciplinary learning: Innovative approaches of transdisciplinary cooperation in transnational partnerships

    Bürgener, L. (Speaker), Barth, M. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)

    01.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Policy Brief Series

    Glover, D. (Consultant), Friedrich, B. (Consultant) & Ely , A. (Consultant)

    09.2020

    Activity: Consultancy

  10. How Do Civil Servants Use Social Science Evidence for Designing Participatory Governance Processes?

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    27.08.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study from Montenegro

    Coenen, J. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Coauthor)

    24.08.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Virtual Keynote 'Fast learning for radical business model innovation'

    Weissbrod, I. (Speaker)

    01.07.202002.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. National Sustainability Institutions as Levers for Climate Performance? A Research Proposal

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    26.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Two degrees and the SDGs: A network analysis of interlinkages between transnational climate actions and the SDGs

    Coenen, J. (Speaker) & Glass, L.-M. (Speaker)

    10.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Der virtuelle Chemieunterricht - Austausch zu Best-Practice-Erfahrungen im Rahmen des Home-Schooling und Distance-Learning

    Spitzer, P. (Speaker) & Hofer, E. (Lecturer)

    04.05.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  16. Waldgärten als multi-funktionale Nachhaltigkeitslösung verstehen

    Albrecht, S. (Speaker)

    06.04.202010.07.2020

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

  17. BNE in der universitären Lehrerausbildung für den Bereich Grund-, Real- und Hauptschule

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    09.03.2020

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

  18. Recht auf Ineffizienz – Eine Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von Grundrechten zur Effizienz

    Bertram, A. (Speaker)

    07.03.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Inklusion im Sachunterricht. Empirische und theoretische Befunde für die Gestaltung eines zukunftsfähigen Sachunterrichts

    Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Speaker), Bürgener, L. (Speaker), Sellin, K. (Speaker), Brauns, S. (Speaker) & Meschede, N. (Oral presentation)

    06.03.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Risky Business: Risk.Taking and Cosmopolitan Cities

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker)

    03.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Video-Stimulated Reflections in der Lehrer*innenbildung -

    Egger, D. (Speaker) & Abels, S. (Coauthor)

    28.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch