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. Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI) (Organisational unit)

    Martín-López, B. (Chair) & Fischer, J. (Chair)

    2020 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  3. Talk on thinking about the future

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker)

    2020

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

  4. The Framework for Inclusive Science Education

    Brauns, S. (Speaker)

    2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. 2019
  6. BNE sowie Trasformatives Lernen in der Hochschullehre

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    18.12.2019

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

  7. Ein einfaches nicht steriles Verfahren zur simultanen Umwandlung biogener Reststoffe in Bioethanol und Milchsäure

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker)

    11.12.2019

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

  8. One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade? Negotiators' perceptions and behaviors in intergenerational allocations of resources.

    van Treek, M. (Speaker), Majer, J. M. (Coauthor), Zhang, H. (Coauthor) & Trötschel, R. (Coauthor)

    28.11.201929.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Transforming teacher education for and through ESD

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    22.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Chemistry within a Circular Economy

    Kümmerer, K. (Oral presentation)

    19.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Iberoamerican Conference on advance oxidation technologies - IV CIPOA 2019

    Wilde, M. L. (Speaker) & Kümmerer, K. (Coauthor)

    18.11.201922.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Nachhaltige Entwicklung - ein Thema für die Grundschule!

    Kater-Wettstädt, L. (Speaker)

    09.11.2019

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

  13. Developing learning environments for independent work

    Hofer, E. (Speaker)

    08.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Metalle - Voraussetzung der digitalen Transformation - 2019

    Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    08.11.201910.11.2019

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

  15. Project-based Education and other activating strategies in science education 2019

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    07.11.201908.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. The Australian National University

    Schaal, T. (Visiting researcher)

    01.11.201931.10.2021

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  17. Catholic University of Louvain

    Coenen, J. (Visiting researcher)

    11.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  18. German Committee Future Earth (External organisation)

    Jochum, G. (Member), Barth, T. (Member), Brandl, S. (Member), Cárdenas Tomazic, A. (Member), Hofmeister, S. (Member), Littig, B. (Member), Matuschek, I. (Member), Ulrich, S. (Member) & Warsewa, G. (Member)

    11.2019

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  19. Linking Teaching and Learning Formats with Student Development of Key Sustainability Competencies

    Barth, M. (Speaker) & Redman, A. (Speaker)

    27.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch