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. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Peinemann, J. (Visiting researcher)

    01.09.201501.02.2016

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  3. Td Summer School 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.08.201508.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  4. Sustainability and Learning

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    26.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Introduction to Higher Education for Sustainable Development

    Barth, M. (Speaker)

    25.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. 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

  7. 11th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology - BCEP 2015

    Sundermann, A. (presenter)

    09.08.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Research on agroecosystems and socioecological resilience

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

    22.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Environmental and Sustainability Education: The Global Scene

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    20.07.201531.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  14. Training on Environmental and Sustainability Education for Teacher Education and Theological Colleges in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    20.07.201531.07.2015

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

  15. How do chemistry teachers implement inquiry-based learning in their classes?

    Hofer, E. (presenter) & Lembens, A. (Coauthor)

    13.07.201516.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  16. Summer School des Zentrums für Lehrer*innenbildung an der Universität Wien 2015

    Hofer, E. (Participant)

    13.07.201516.07.2015

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

  17. The Process of Dividuation and the Nebula of Anonymity

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    12.07.201516.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. (Un)regulated affect: sensing moods and analyzing sentiments from pre-individual intensities as a new modulation of control

    Leistert, O. (Speaker)

    12.07.201516.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Analyzing management preferences for sustainability: Toward a new framework

    Sundermann, A. (Coauthor)

    03.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Just why, how and when should more participation lead to better environmental policy outcomes? A causal framework for analysis

    Challies, E. (Speaker)

    03.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Integrales Energiekonzept für eine klimaneutrale Universität: Projekt "klimaneutraler Campus"

    Strodel, N. (Speaker), Opel, O. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    02.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch