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. 2012
  2. Why have a drink? Emotional, cognitive, and motivational mechanisms of acute alcohol consumption

    Sevincer, T. (Speaker) & Oettingen, G. (Coauthor)

    05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Workshop on occasion of the 10th anniversary DFG Research Unit for 456/1451 2012

    Klein, A.-M. (Speaker)

    05.2012

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

  4. Jagiellonian University

    Mölders, T. (Visiting researcher)

    30.04.201225.07.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  5. Scientific conference with integrated meeting of the European network „Gender, Diversity and Urban Sustainability (GDUS)“ 2012

    Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)

    27.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6.  ICCSR 10th Anniversary Conference 2012

    Zvezdov, D. (Speaker)

    26.04.201227.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Gender Relation and Sustainable Spatial Development

    Hofmeister, S. (Speaker)

    25.04.201228.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Green Procurement and Supply: Chancen und Herausforderungen

    Klewitz, J. (Speaker)

    25.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Green Procurement and Supply: Chancen und Herausforderungen

    Harms, D. (Oral presentation)

    25.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Die Energiewende und das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    20.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Social Entrepreneurship in Theorie und Praxis: 2,5-tägiges Blockseminar (mit Anica Zeyen)

    Beckmann, M. (Lecturer)

    19.04.201221.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  12. Social Entrepreneurship in Theorie und Praxis: 2,5-tägiges Blockseminar (mit Markus Beckmann)

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    19.04.201221.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  13. Workshop Transdisziplinäre Wissensproduktion in der Wasserforschung 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    19.04.201220.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference - PCST 2012

    Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant)

    18.04.201220.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Potenziale für die Schulpraxis

    Stoltenberg, U. (Lecturer)

    18.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Agrobiodiversität im Wandel – zwischen Schutz und Nutzung zum erhaltenden Gestalten

    Burandt, A. (Speaker)

    17.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Statusseminar der Nachwuchsforschungsgruppen im Rahmen der Sozial-ökologischen Forschung 2012

    Mölders, T. (Organiser), Hofmeister, S. (Participant), Gottschlich, D. (Organiser), Szumelda, A. U. (Participant), Sulmowski, J. A. (Participant), Burandt, A. (Participant) & Friedrich, B. (Participant)

    16.04.201217.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Panel-Teilnehmer beim "Expertentreffen zu Social Business"

    Beckmann, M. (Panel participant)

    13.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  19. Treffen des Netzwerks Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften 2012

    Mölders, T. (Participant)

    13.04.201214.04.2012

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

  20. Social Entrepreneurship - Was ist das und was bringt es?

    Zeyen, A. (Lecturer)

    04.04.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation