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. 2015
  2. Journal of Biodiversity, Bioprospecting and Development (Journal)

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    12.12.201512.12.2017

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

  3. Task Force on Access to Information under the Aarhus Convention, UNECE

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    09.12.2015

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

  4. Sensors (Journal)

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    03.12.2015 → …

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

  5. Bridging Education and Science for Sustainable Development -2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    02.12.201503.12.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Räume generativer Bildung

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    02.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Ecology and Society (Journal)

    Engler, J.-O. (Reviewer)

    01.12.2015

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

  8. Auf der Suche nach Räumen generativer Bildung

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    30.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. Participatory research from the ‘Sentipensar’ concept: towards the plurality of knowledge

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker)

    26.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 1st Global Bioeconomy Summit - 2015

    Pleißner, D. (presenter)

    25.11.201526.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Ev. Akademie Braunschweig

    Maly, C. (Speaker)

    20.11.2015

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

  12. Ev. Akademie Braunschweig

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    20.11.2015

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

  13. Gesellschaft für Didaktik des Sachunterrichts Doktorand*innenarbeitstagung - GDSU 2015

    Bruhn, K. (Speaker)

    20.11.201521.11.2015

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

  14. Jaquelines-of-all-trades: Women Graduate Entrepreneurs and Their Skill-sets

    Tegtmeier, S. (Speaker), Kurczewska, A. (Speaker) & Halberstadt, J. (Speaker)

    18.11.201519.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. 2. Internationale Tagung über Ernährung und Umwelt - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    17.11.201518.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Symposium on International Climate Protection - 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    13.11.201514.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

    Maly, C. (Speaker)

    12.11.2015

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

  18. 40th Annual Meeting of The Society for Social Studies of Science - 4S 2015

    Herberg, J. (Participant)

    11.11.201514.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch