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.

  1. 2023
  2. The forest beyond the trees: a network perspective on governing nature's contributions to people co-production

    Isaac, R. (Speaker), Martín-López, B. (Coauthor), Kachler, J. (Coauthor), Felipe-Lucia, M. R. (Coauthor) & Cumming, G. S. (Coauthor)

    19.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. IDG Summit 2023

    Möller, S. (Participant)

    11.10.202313.10.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. ISEK Expert*innentagung Lüneburg

    Möller, S. (Participant)

    07.10.2023

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

  5. Creating curricula for competence: Findings from a comparison of three sustainability graduate programs

    Birdman, J. (Speaker) & Lang, D. J. (Coauthor)

    04.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Learning Change: Studentische Reallabore für BNE nutzen

    Schmitt, M. (presenter), Wyss, M. (Speaker) & Möller, S. (Moderator)

    04.10.2023

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

  7. Peter G. Mahaffy

    Kümmerer, K. (Host) & Zuin Zeidler, V. (Host)

    02.10.202330.11.2023

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  8. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (External organisation)

    Fischer, D. (Member)

    01.10.202330.09.2027

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  9. Reflexion als Schlüssel zur Erforschung von Partizipation und Heterogenität

    Meyn, J. (Speaker)

    29.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Wie kann eine gerechte und dezentrale Energiewende gelingen?

    Hartmann, E. (Speaker)

    29.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

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  1. Cumulating evidence in environmental governance, policy and planning research: towards a research reform agenda
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  3. Theoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung des Strategieverhaltens von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
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  5. Leuphana Sommerakademie
  6. Digitale Public Health
  7. Die Akzeptanz des Kündigungsschutzes
  8. Ansätze zur Leistungserfassung im Wissens- und Technologietransfer aus Hochschulen in Deutschland
  9. Überwindung von Hochschul- und Fachkulturen!?
  10. Der Mittelstand: Forschungsansätze zur Sicherung der Zukunftsfähigkeit
  11. Angst. Zu Transformationen einer Emotion in Ernst Jüngers „In Stahlgewittern“ und seinen originalen Kriegstagebüchern 1914–1918
  12. The Human Aspect of Cross-Border Acquisition Outcomes: The Role of Management Practices, Employee Emotions, and National Culture
  13. Mythen der Circular Economy
  14. Engaging Teacher Educators with the Sustainability Agenda
  15. Kompetenzen mathematisch begabter Grundschulkinder erkunden und fördern
  16. Manufacturing Individual Opinions
  17. Wie wird Unterrichtskommunikation gelehrt? Beispiele aus universitärer, schulischer und Veröffentlichungspraxis
  18. Corporate Governance in der monistischen Societas Europaea
  19. Gender-Mainstreaming-Aspekte im Rahmen von Anrechnungsverfahren
  20. "Meine Seele verblutet an der Sehnsucht nach dem verlorenen Paradies"
  21. Pfade durch den Bücherdschungel
  22. Naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht inklusiv gestalten (Nawi-In)
  23. Prüfung der nichtfinanziellen Erklärung und der Erklärung zur Unternehmensführung durch Aufsichtsrat und Abschlussprüfer
  24. Sind wir bereit für eine Musikwirtschaft 5.0?
  25. Walter Benjamin zur Einführung
  26. Réfléxivité et Système. Le débat sur l'ordre et L'auto-organisation dans les années 1970