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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  2. Environmental fate of Methotrexate:photodegradation, biodegradability and mutagenicity assessment

    Kümmerer, K. (presenter), Toolaram, A. P. (presenter), Baginska, E. (presenter), Lutterbeck, C. (presenter), Huynh, K. D. (presenter) & Schneider, M. (presenter)

    03.06.201304.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  3. Identification of photo-transformation products of ciprofloxacin and evaluation of their genotoxicity using in silco methods and in vitro assay

    Kümmerer, K. (presenter), Haddad, T. (Coauthor), Toolaram, A. P. (Coauthor) & Leder, C. (presenter)

    03.06.201304.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  4. Removal of Methotrexate, 5-Fluorouracil and Cyclophosphamide from water by UV, UV/H2O2 and UV/Fe2+/H2O2 processe

    Kümmerer, K. (presenter), Lutterbeck, C. (presenter), Bolek, R. (presenter) & Huynh, K. D. (presenter)

    03.06.201304.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. Geschlecht und sexuelle Orientierung im Blick politischer Bildung

    Offen, S. (Lecturer)

    06.201308.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  6. International Conference: Cooperation or Conflict? Economics of Natural Resources and Food - 2013

    Baumgärtner, S. (presenter)

    31.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Doing Away with Labor: Working and Caring in a World of Commons

    Gottschlich, D. (Keynote Speaker)

    23.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Tilling the fields of knowledge in sustainability-oriented science

    Adomßent, M. (Speaker)

    23.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. 2nd International Scientific Conference on Regional development, spatial planning and strategic governance - RESPAG 2013

    Herberg, J. (presenter)

    22.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Economics and the Common(s) International Conference - 2013

    Gottschlich, D. (Participant)

    22.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Fußball und Diskriminierung: Einordnung und Entwicklungen

    Winands, M. (Lecturer)

    21.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  12. 6th GUNi Conference on Higher Education Side Event - 2013

    Mader, C. (Organiser)

    13.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Inter- und transdisziplinäre Lehre

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    13.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. Micro and macro scale behavior of thermochemical materials in pure and composite forms for thermal storage applications

    N'Tsoukpoe, K. E. (Speaker), Rammelberg, H. U. (Speaker), Korhammer, K. (Speaker), Fopah Lele, A. (Speaker), Osterland, T. (Speaker) & Ruck, W. (Speaker)

    12.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Demokratiequalität im Policy-Prozess und ihre Auswirkung auf die Policy-Performanz

    Newig, J. (Speaker)

    06.05.2013

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