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. Situational predictors of spontaneous mental contrasting

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

    05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Thinking about the future

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

    05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 8th International Conference on Biobased Materials - 2015

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker)

    30.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Auftaktworkshop der EnergyCultures Nachwuchsgruppe - 2015

    Meyer, E. M. (Participant)

    30.04.2015

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

  6. Methoden transformativer Forschung

    Vilsmaier, U. (Lecturer)

    24.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Arbeitstagung Lernortwechsel - 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    17.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Green hotels: Use of food waste derived from hotels and restaurants for the production of sustainable and biodegradable consumables.

    Pleißner, D. (Lecturer)

    14.04.201516.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Green Hotels: Use of food waste derived from hotels and restaurants for the production of sustainable and biodegradable consumables.

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker) & Venus, J. (Speaker)

    14.04.201516.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Tagung "Natürliche Feinde? Umweltschutz und freier Welthandel als rechtliches und politisches Problem" - 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    10.04.201511.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  11. Forschendes Lernen im Chemieunterricht

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    09.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Matching the Core Text Approach with the General Education Philosophy: Breaking Ground at Leuphana College in Lüneburg, Germany

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    09.04.201512.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  13. Agroecological practices in the Andean high lands: agrobiodiversity, culture and family farming

    Ortiz-Przychodzka, S. (Speaker) & de la Pava, R. (Speaker)

    08.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. 5th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop - UGAF 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    25.03.201527.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. ANAKON 2015

    Mahmoud, W. M. M. (presenter)

    23.03.201526.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. BESSER nutzen, Der Dialog.6 - 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    23.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  17. Climate change and sustainable use of high Aswan dam reservoir

    Elba, E. (Speaker), Farghaly, D. (Speaker) & Urban, B. (Speaker)

    23.03.201525.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. LC-MS identification of the photo-transformation products of desipramine with studying the effect of different environmental variables on the kinetics of their formation

    Khaleel, N. D. H. (Speaker), Olsson, O. (Speaker) & Kümmerer, K. (Speaker)

    23.03.201526.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Sustainable use of arable lands within the Elbe river biosphere reserve in Lower Saxony, Germana using SAR-Data

    Elba, E. (Speaker), Farghaly, D. (Speaker) & Urban, B. (Speaker)

    23.03.201525.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. UN Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development: A Training Research Project on the Evidence Base

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    11.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch