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. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. ANAKON 2015

    Mahmoud, W. M. M. (presenter)

    23.03.201526.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. BESSER nutzen, Der Dialog.6 - 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    23.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. PERL International Conference: A Decade of Responsible Living - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    10.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Tagung Politische Ökonomik großer Transformationen - 2015

    Heilmann, S. (presenter)

    10.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Abschlusssymposium der Initiative Nachhaltigkeit & Journalismus - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    07.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Mental Contrasting and Energization

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

    03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Situational predictors of mental contrasting

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

    03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Fortbildungsbildungsreihe "Das Leben gestalten lernen" des Bildungszentrums für Natur, Umwelt und ländliche Räume (BNUR) des Landes Schleswig-Holstein - 2015

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    27.02.2015

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

  17. Forschendes Lernen im Chemieunterricht – warum und wie? mit Sandra Puddu

    Abels, S. (Lecturer)

    26.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Bioenergy Research (Journal)

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    01.02.2015 → …

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

  19. University of California, Berkeley

    Herberg, J. (Visiting researcher)

    01.02.201530.06.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  20. Spontaneous mental contrasting: Antecedents and consequenses

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

    02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch