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. XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology of the International Rural Sociology Association - IRSA 2012

    Gottschlich, D. (Organiser), Mölders, T. (Organiser), Gottschlich, D. (Participant), Mölders, T. (Participant), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant) & Burandt, A. (Participant)

    02.08.201203.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Does resin represent a neglected component of bee ecology? A comparison between Old and New World bees.

    Leonhardt, S. (Speaker)

    08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Towards and interdisciplinary understanding of ecological novelty 2012

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    08.2012

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

  5. Boon or Bane? Typing Speed in Online Negotiations

    Höhne, B. (Speaker)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Never gonna give you up! Better gonna take you back? Negotiating Benefits and Burdens in Common Resource Negotiations

    Höhne, B. (Speaker)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Wissenschaftliche Tagung „Das neue Recht der Kreislaufwirtschaft“ 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    09.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. The Global Sustainability Summer School 2012

    Engler, J.-O. (Participant)

    08.07.201221.07.2012

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

  9. 28th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2012

    Zeyen, A. (Speaker) & Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    04.07.201207.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 11th EABIS Annual Colloquium 2012

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker)

    03.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Innovation Potential for Sustainability Management Methods

    Schaltegger, S. (Speaker), Hörisch, J. (Speaker), Herzig, C. (Speaker) & Klewitz, J. (Speaker)

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. RGS – IBG DARG Conference 2012

    Richter, S. (Speaker)

    02.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  13. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Industries: The Case of the Apparel Industry

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

    02.07.201204.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Science Slam im Wissenschaftsjahr - Zukunftsprojekt Erde 2012

    Bolek, R. (Speaker)

    30.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  15. Abschlusskonferenz des Mercator Forschungsverbundes Innovatives Soziales Handeln – Social Entrepreneurship 2012

    Beckmann, M. (Organiser)

    28.06.201229.06.2012

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

  16. Competencies for Sustainability – Does Gender play any Role?

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. In the forest: doing gender by doing nature

    Katz, C. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Social Entrepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape.

    Beckmann, M. (Speaker)

    28.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. 19th Annual Conference EAERE 2012

    Baumgärtner, S. (Speaker)

    27.06.201230.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. proDUO: Job-Sharing for Postdoc and Higher Academic Employees: An Organizing Principle of the Human Resource Management of Science Institutions?

    Birkner, S. (Speaker), Halberstadt, J. (Speaker) & Rehm, A. (Speaker)

    27.06.201229.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch