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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.

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. Zugang zu humangenetischen Ressourcen indigener Völker Lateinamerikas
  2. Stieftöchter der Psychoanalyse? Ellen Key, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth und Charlotte Bühler
  3. Öffentlicher Personenverkehr
  4. „Mein Trost, Kampf und Sieg ist Christus“
  5. Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
  6. Should we really ‘hermeneutise’ the Digital Humanities? A plea for the epistemic productivity of a ‘cultural technique of flattening’ in the Humanities.
  7. Zwischen 2007 und 2015 verdoppeln sich die Abiturientenzahlen
  8. Die Blockade der Energiewende wird die USA teuer zu stehen kommen
  9. Die autoritäre Persönlichkeit
  10. Graf, Werner: Lesegenese in Kindheit und Jugend. Einführung in die literarische Sozialisation
  11. Grundlagen und Bedeutung der grenzüberschreitenden Vermögensabschöpfung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verordnung (EU) 2018/1805 – Teil 1
  12. Die Praxis der Innovationsforschung – im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Ökonomie, Steuerung und Organisation
  13. Kooperative Qualifizierung von Lehrern und Ausbildern als Beitrag zur Professionalisierung. Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung im Rahmen des Projektes "XENOS-Mentoren"
  14. Niedrige Testmodellpassung als Resultat mangelnder Auswertungsobjektivität bei der Kodierung landesweiter Vergleichsarbeiten durch Lehrkräfte
  15. Digitale Transformation (fremd)sprachlicher Lehr-Lernprozesse und der Bildungsauftrag im Fach
  16. Gender in Lehre und Didaktik - eine europäische Konferenz in Erfurt, hrsg. von Gesine Spieß; Cilie Rentmeister
  17. Bürgerbeteiligungsmodelle für erneuerbare Energien
  18. Eine Rebellion des Klangs gegen die Diktatur der schweren Taktteile
  19. Learning about European neighbours in primary school teacher training
  20. Moosbrand