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School of Sustainability

Organisational unit: Research School

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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.

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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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Activities

  1. Strategie-Workshops „Strategische Mehrheit der Union und Probleme des Machtwechselsmit" - 2013
  2. Wie ging es den Kindern in der Pandemie: Wissenslücken und der marginale Status von Kindern
  3. Das Gedächtnis eines Ortes. Das Kommunizieren, Speichern und Vergessen von Kulturerbe in Elx
  4. Challenging the status quo - the positioning of female researchers in the footballing world
  5. Sustainable Vocational Education and Further Training Practice through Multiplier Training
  6. Culture as Value Added Industry and as Embedded Life: Culture as Part of Touristic Products
  7. BBC Fusion Summit: Playful interfaces for playful human beings: the future of game interfaces
  8. Meanings and Understandings of security among (local) police officers in relation to refugees
  9. 27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft - DVPW 2018
  10. Zwischenbilanzen by artecology_network and Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
  11. Impulsvortrag und Paneldiskussion: Von der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung, die wir brauchen
  12. Road verges facilitate exotic species expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands

Publications

  1. Methodology for Integrating Biomimetic Beams in Abstracted Topology Optimization Results
  2. An observer for sensorless variable valve control in camless internal combustion engines
  3. Prolog und relationale Datenbanken als Grundlagen zur Implementierung einer NF2-Datenbank
  4. The relationship between audit committees, external auditors, and internal control systems
  5. Trade-off between Production and Inventory Costs with Respect to a Given Demand Situation
  6. Attachment disorder and attachment theory – Two sides of one medal or two different coins?
  7. Modeling Interregional Patient Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Spatially Explicit Data
  8. Modeling and simulation of the heterogenous material behavior in thermal-sprayed coatings
  9. The relevance of cultural aspects in cross cultural management in multinational companies
  10. Farmed areas predict the distribution of amphibian ponds in a traditional rural landscape
  11. Mapping giant honey bee nests in Palawan, Philippines through a transdisciplinary approach
  12. Site and neighborhood effects on growth of tree saplings in subtropical plantations (China).
  13. Multi-Agent Path Finding with Kinematic Constraints for Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems
  14. The tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of the southern Levant and adjacent territories
  15. Die finalen IFAC-Leitlinien zur Ableitung und Darstellung von „ergänzenden“ Finanzkennzahlen
  16. Potentials and Challenges of Hybrid Participatory Design Tools in European Urban Planning
  17. The Caterpillar Hunter Beetles Calosoma Weber (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the southern Levant