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. The Role of Higher Education in the Transition to a Sustainable Future: Implications for Teaching and Learning

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    09.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. International Transdisciplinarity Conference - td-net 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Moderator) & Meyer, E. M. (Organiser)

    08.09.201510.09.2015

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

  4. International Transdisciplinarity Conference - td-net 2015

    Newig, J. (Speaker), Bergmann, M. (Coauthor), Jahn, S. V. (Coauthor), Kahle, J. (Coauthor) & Lang, D. J. (Coauthor)

    08.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Using a Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Approach in HESD Research: Reflections on Pitfalls and Added Value

    Sundermann, A. (Speaker) & Fischer, D. (Coauthor)

    08.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Scaffolding guided inquiry-based chemistry education at an inclusive school, mit Dominic Klika

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    04.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. ESD in Elementary Education, Literature Review 2005-2014

    Bruhn, K. (Speaker)

    03.09.201511.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Small Scale Video Analysis of Scaffolding Inclusive Science Education by Grounded Theory

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    01.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Peinemann, J. (Visiting researcher)

    01.09.201501.02.2016

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  10. Td Summer School 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.08.201508.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  11. Sustainability and Learning

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    26.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Introduction to Higher Education for Sustainable Development

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    25.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  13. Is a better understanding of assembly a way to help reassemble communities for restoration?

    Weidlich, E. W. A. (presenter)

    23.08.201527.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  14. 11th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology - BCEP 2015

    Sundermann, A. (presenter)

    09.08.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. 28th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management - IACM 2015

    Majer, J. M. (presenter)

    07.08.201510.08.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Sociocultural aspects in ecosystems’ transformation: methodological tools

    de la Pava, R. (Speaker), Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker), Pérez, D. (Speaker) & Cortés-Gutiérrez, L. M. (Speaker)

    05.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Trans-Atlantic Sustainability Seminar - TASS 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    03.08.2015

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

  18. XIX INQUA Congress - 2015

    Proborukmi, M. S. (Speaker) & Urban, B. (Speaker)

    26.07.201502.08.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Research on agroecosystems and socioecological resilience

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker) & Quiroga, C. (Speaker)

    22.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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