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. 2017
  2. Educational Reconstruction of the concept of renewable energy resources, von Sybille Hüfner und mit Kai Niebert

    Abels, S. (Speaker)

    20.08.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. The 15th Anniversary edition of the European heathlands workshop - EHW 2017

    Härdtle, W. (Speaker)

    20.08.201725.08.2017

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

  4. Exploring priority effects in a central European grassland field experiment in order to inform restoration (Symposium)

    Weidlich, E. (presenter)

    17.08.201701.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. ReThink - ReStructure - ReConnect

    Peukert, D. (Speaker), Holthuizen, P. (Speaker) & Engbers, M. (Participant)

    09.08.2017

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

  6. Co-creating transformative processes - a designerly approach

    Peukert, D. (Speaker)

    08.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Teaching and Learning in an Interconnected World. A Guide to Transnational Education for Sustainability

    John, B. (Speaker), Caniglia, G. (Speaker), Leonie, B. (Speaker), Laubichler, M. D. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)

    31.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 13. Berliner Methodentreffen 2017

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    21.07.201722.07.2017

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

  9. Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy

    Sundermann, A. (Participant) & Frank, P. (Speaker)

    18.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Speaking with One Voice While Being Different - Effects of Comparison Mindsets in Negotiations between Groups

    Schuster, C. (presenter)

    11.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. Impulse zum inklusiven Chemieunterricht; Dialoggespräch zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft zum inklusiven naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht

    Abels, S. (Speaker)

    10.07.2017

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

  12. 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management - IACM 2017

    Schuster, C. (Coauthor)

    09.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. A Model of Mental Accounting in Negotiations.

    Trötschel, R. (Speaker), Zhang, H. (Speaker), Majer, J. M. (Speaker), Leitsch, L. (Speaker) & Warsitzka, M. (Speaker)

    09.07.201712.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. It Matters When You Do It – Issue Packaging in Multi-Issue Negotiation.

    Zhang, H. (Speaker), Geiger, I. (Speaker) & Trötschel, R. (Speaker)

    09.07.201712.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Begutachtung eines Antrags für ein Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Other expert activitiesPeer review of project proposalsResearch

  16. 12th Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference - IPA 2017

    Sieveking, A. (Participant)

    05.07.201707.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Gastvorlesung: Welt im Grid. Zur Poetologie der meteorologischen Simulation

    Schrickel, I. (Lecturer)

    04.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  18. How the Ant taught Scholars about Science – a story by Iimbovane Outreach Project

    Turner, S. (Speaker)

    01.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Spontaneous self-regulation by mentally contrasting future and reality

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)

    Hunning, S. (Member) & Mölders, T. (Member)

    07.2017

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  21. Rurbane Landschaften

    Friedrich, B. (presenter)

    30.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch