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. 2013
  2. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Speaker)

    21.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Are managed honey bees a threat to native wild bees?

    Hudewenz, A. (Speaker)

    19.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 11th INTECOL Congress 2013

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Participant)

    18.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany

    Groeneveld, J. H. (Oral presentation)

    18.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Biodiversity and ecosystem funtions in annual oil seed production: Camelina and pennycress double-cropping in Germany

    Klein, A.-M. (Oral presentation)

    18.08.201323.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Biodiversity and crop pollination services

    Klein, A.-M. (Oral presentation)

    14.08.201317.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Unkonventionelle Gaslagerstätten und Gasförderung unter Einsatz der Hydraulic Fracturing Technologie

    Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)

    14.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. ETH Zürich World Food System Center Summer School - 2013

    Velten, S. (Participant)

    11.08.201325.08.2013

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

  10. Trans Atlantic Sustainability Seminar 2013

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    06.08.2013

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

  11. BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013

    Pleißner, D. (Chair)

    01.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. BIT's 2nd Annual International Congress of Algae - AICA 2013

    Pleißner, D. (Speaker)

    01.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Erdgasgewinnung durch "Fracking": Erschließung unkonventioneller Lagerstätten durch„Hydraulic Fracturing“

    Olsson, O. (Oral presentation)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  14. Rethinking economy, nature use and development: Caring as a socio-ecological concept for sustainability and gender justice

    Katz, C. (Speaker) & Gottschlich, D. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Workshop zur Konstituierung des Instituts für transdisziplinäre Sozialwissenschaft der Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe -2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Is small beautiful? The case of small-scale farming in Poland, the CAP and rural resilience

    Szumelda, A. U. (Speaker)

    30.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. 25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013

    Szumelda, A. U. (Participant)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. 25th Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology - ESRS 2013

    Gottschlich, D. (Organiser)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Competencies for sustainable development of rural areas need the integration of Gender

    Thiem, A. (Speaker) & Katz, C. (Speaker)

    29.07.201301.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  20. Representing Future Generations Today

    Rose, M. (Speaker)

    29.07.201310.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  21. 17th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association - APRIA 2013

    Engler, J.-O. (Speaker) & Engler, J.-O. (presenter)

    28.07.201331.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch