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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Researchers

  1. Hartmut Meyer

Publications

  1. Digitalisierung aus der Perspektive Fachdidaktischer Forschung und Ingenieurwissenschaftlicher Lehrpraxis
  2. Asyl für russische Kriegsdienstverweigerer
  3. Investition in Humankapital.
  4. Alt werden und alt sein in einer ländlichen Gemeinde
  5. Aktivität und Passivität der visuellen Wahrnehmung bei Platon und Aristoteles
  6. Politikwissenschaft: "Ein Fach mit Ausstrahlung"
  7. Indikatoren der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - ein Werkstattbericht
  8. Festschrift zum 150-jährigen Vereinsjubiläum
  9. Wandel klassischer Demokratievorstellungen in der Rechtswissenschaft
  10. Innovative Lehr-Lernformen im Sport
  11. Doppelte Professionalisierung von Sportlehrkräften – ein theoretischer Anspruch im Praxis(semester)test
  12. Briefe aus dem 20. Jahrhundert
  13. EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
  14. Wäre weniger mehr - Reformbedarf für die Missbrauchsaufsicht über die Deutsche Telekom?
  15. Von Kategorien zu Basis- und Fachkonzepten – Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?
  16. Arielle ist die Schönste für mich
  17. The International Court of Justice
  18. Interarchive
  19. Investigation of the friction behavior between dry/infiltrated glass fiber fabric and metal sheet during deep drawing of fiber metal laminates
  20. Cost-effectiveness of online positive psychology
  21. E-Commerce-Geschäftsmodelle im deutschen Tourismusmarkt
  22. Abteilung orientierte Gesundheitsförderung für Mitarbeiter – was Führungskräfte tun können und sollten
  23. Privatrechtstheorie heute
  24. Doing Kinship by Doing Law? Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, 9–10 December 2022
  25. Schlussbemerkungen
  26. Einführung in die Ästhetische Bildung
  27. Kommunale Wählergemeinschaften – Deutsche Besonderheit oder gesamteuropäisches Phänomen?
  28. Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)
  29. Krieg - Medien - Kultur