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. 2014
  2. Teaching, assessing and promoting 21st century competencies

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    10.11.201412.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. 35th Annual Meeting of SETAC North America

    Herrmann, M. (presenter)

    09.11.201413.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Research Priorities in Light of the Future Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development

    Adomßent, M. (Lecturer)

    08.11.201409.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Towards the sustainable university: approaches, indicators, good practice

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    07.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  6. Strengthening the connections between educational and sustainability science

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    06.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Education for Sustainable Development: Initiatives at Leuphana University Lüneburg

    Fischer, D. (Oral presentation)

    05.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. Trajectories of assessing sustainability in consumption

    Fischer, D. (Lecturer)

    03.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. 4th World Sustainability Forum - WSF 2014

    Velten, S. (presenter)

    01.11.201430.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Molecules: a journal of synthetic organic and natural product chemistry (Journal)

    Pleißner, D. (Reviewer)

    01.11.2014 → …

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

  11. Scientific Steering Committee Schweden (External organisation)

    Martín-López, B. (Member)

    01.11.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  12. Summer School on Climate Change 2014

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    31.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  13. 3rd International Conference on Biodiversity and the UN Millennium Development Goals

    Leventon, J. (Speaker)

    29.10.201431.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Tag der Politikwissenschaft 2014

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

    28.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Bundesvereinigung öffentliches Recht

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    27.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  16. Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung, Modul 2 in der Fortbildungsreihe Das Leben gestalten lernen: Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Schule 1.-6. Klasse

    Hüfner, S. (Participant)

    10.10.2014

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

  17. Exploration of sustainable technologies and Learnings from a failed small wind energy project

    Wicki, S. (Speaker), Hansen, E. G. (Speaker) & Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    08.10.201409.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

    Fücker, S. (Participant)

    06.10.201410.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Sparkassenakademie Niedersachsen, Fachtagung Firmenkunden Führungskräfte

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    06.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  20. Expertenworkshop: Nachhaltigkeit kommunizieren - interdisziplinäre Zugänge

    Fischer, D. (Speaker)

    01.10.2014

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

  21. Developing the ‘Benign by Design’ Approach for a Rational Design of Green Derivatives of b -Blockers: Propranolol as an Example

    Rastogi, T. (presenter)

    30.09.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research