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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  2. Elsevier B.V. (External organisation)

    Pleißner, D. (Member)

    08.05.2017 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  3. Leverage Points in collaboration with artecology_network

    Engbers, M. (presenter)

    07.05.2017

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

  4. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe Annual Meeting 2017

    Wieck, S. (presenter)

    07.05.201711.05.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production 2017

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    03.05.201705.05.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. ‘Interconnections between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement.

    Meyer, E. M. (Speaker)

    03.05.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Designmethoden in transdisziplinären Teams

    Peukert, D. (Speaker)

    05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  8. Eliciting energization by mentally contrasting future and reality

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

    05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Nekane Castillo-Eguskitza

    Martín-López, B. (Host)

    05.201708.2017

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  10. sneep Frühjahrstagung 2017

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    28.04.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  11. 2nd International Conference on Forests 2017

    Ohse, B. (Speaker)

    27.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  12. Aus Alt mach Neu - Umgestaltung von Versuchsanleitungen im Sinne des Forschenden Lernens

    Hofer, E. (Lecturer) & Reiter, K. (Lecturer)

    21.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  13. 14. Europäischer Chemielehrer-/innenkongress 2017

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    19.04.201722.04.2017

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

  14. Journal of Cleaner Production (Journal)

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    18.04.2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  15. Bundeskongress des Verbandes zur Förderung des MINT-Unterrichts 2017

    Hüfner, S. (Participant)

    07.04.2017

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

  16. Agroecology and Ethnobotany in rural Bogota

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker) & Pérez, D. (Speaker)

    06.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  17. Tagung frauen-landwirtschaft.de 2017

    Mölders, T. (Speaker)

    04.04.201706.04.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Forschendes Lernen im Chemieunterricht: Einfache Experimente mit Tiefgang

    Hofer, E. (Lecturer)

    03.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  19. Harvard University

    Schrickel, I. (Visiting researcher)

    04.201710.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  20. Travelling Codes

    Schrickel, I. (Organiser)

    30.03.201731.03.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Politics of Reproduction

    Friedrich, B. (Organiser)

    27.03.201729.03.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch