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.

  1. LLE: Local Living Economies - Buy Local Initiativen und nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Keeler, L. W. (Project manager, academic), Luthardt, P. (Project manager, academic), Al-Badri, A. (Project staff), Blauth, C. (Project staff), Bohr, K. (Project staff), Brodersen, L. (Project staff), Cammann, J. (Project staff), Haas, J. (Project staff), Johannsen, L. (Project staff), Klemmer, E.-M. (Project staff), Koltzau, J. (Project staff), Kurwan, J. (Project staff), Livonius, M. (Project staff), Nicklas, H. (Project staff), Rathgens, J. (Project staff), Schmidt, N. (Project staff), Seufert, J. (Project staff), Thiede, C. (Project staff), Vonnahme, M. (Project staff) & Weiss, F. (Project staff)

    01.04.1501.04.16

    Project: Teaching

  2. College Studien in der Praxis- KLIMAWERK Energieagentur GmbH & Co. KG

    Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic), Lang, F. J. (Project staff) & Schrader, R. (Project staff)

    01.04.1230.09.12

    Project: Practical Project

  3. Arbeit ist nur das halbe Leben - ein Konzept der politischen Bildung in der Bildungspraxis

    Offen, S. (Project manager, academic) & Schmidt, J. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0931.12.11

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  4. Nawi-In: Naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht inklusiv gestalten - Kompetenzentwicklung von Lehramtsstudierenden für und mit der Praxis

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic), Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Egger, D. (Project staff), Brauns, S. (Project staff) & Sellin, K. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.04.1830.09.21

    Project: Research

  5. BMU-Fachdialog: Fachdialog "Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmensberichterstattung"

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Herzig, C. (Project staff)

    01.07.0431.12.04

    Project: Research

  6. iCon: Analysing plant invasions in their environmental context

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic), Milanović, M. (Project staff) & Kühn, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2131.12.23

    Project: Research

  7. C-MADEnS: Consortium for Modelling and Analysis of Decentralised Energy Storage

    Upham, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1501.04.19

    Project: Research

  8. Alumninetzwerk Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in Lateinamerika

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic) & Klinke, T. (Project staff)

    18.04.0710.08.07

    Project: Other

  9. Halboffene Weidelandschaft Höltigbaum

    Härdtle, W. (Project manager, academic)

    10.03.0026.03.09

    Project: Research

  10. Sozial-ökologische Forschungsperspektiven für eine "Nachhaltige Informationsgesellschaft"

    Möller, A. (Project manager, academic), Rolf, A. (Project manager, academic) & Mandel, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0030.09.01

    Project: Research

  11. Food Policy Councils: Levers for Sustainability Transformation?

    Sieveking, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1630.04.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  12. Influence of degradation-resistent antibiotics and their transformation products from veterinary medicine on herbivorous and nectarivorous insects

    Bolek, R. (Project manager, academic), Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic), Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic), Leonhardt, S. (Project manager, academic) & Pufal, G. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.1328.02.14

    Project: Research

  13. Aboveground multitrophic plant-insect interactions in a Chinese subtropical forest (FOR 891 - Teilprojekt 09)

    Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic), Blüthgen, N. (Project manager, academic) & Bruelheide, H. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.02.1131.07.13

    Project: Research

  14. EdFCA: Educating Future Change Agents - Higher Education as a Motor of the Sustainability Transformation

    Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Halberstadt, J. (Project manager, academic) & Wiek, A. (Project staff)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.03.1630.04.20

    Project: Research

  15. InteGrid: InteGrid - Demonstration of smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with increasing share of renewables: distribution system

    Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic), Escudero Guirado, C. (Project manager, academic), Valor, C. (Project manager, academic), Giersiepen, A. N. (Project staff), Koronen, C. (Project staff), Mäkivierikko, A. (Project manager, academic), Nilsson, A. E. (Project staff) & Shahrokni, H. (Project staff)

    01.02.1630.06.18

    Project: Research

  16. Monitoring gentechnisch veränderter Organismen. Supranationale und deutsche Rechtsfragen des Monitorings transgener Pflanzen zur Erforschung hypothetischer Risiken

    Regenbrecht, G. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    25.04.0417.01.05

    Project: Dissertation project

  17. The potential spread of collaborative consumption practices in France and Germany

    Huber, A. (Project staff), Heinrichs, H. (Project staff), Wilhite, H. (Project staff) & Douzou, S. (Partner, non-academic)

    01.03.14 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  18. Untersuchungen zum Abbau siliziumorganischer Verbindungen mithilfe von Labor-Experimenten

    Grabitz, E. (Project staff), Olsson, O. (Project manager, academic) & Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1630.11.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  19. Studienreise Israel

    Aßmann, T. (Project manager, academic)

    03.02.0923.06.09

    Project: Research

  20. PlanFoL: Auf die Planung kommt es an (PlanFoL)

    Abels, S. (Project manager, academic) & Hofer, E. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2330.06.26

    Project: Research

  21. NaGe: Befördern Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen Frauen an die Spitze?

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Thiem, A. (Project staff), Katz, C. (Project staff), Moths, K. (Project staff) & Heilmann, S. (Project staff)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.03.1131.12.14

    Project: Research

  22. Die Bremischen Häfen in der Globalen Politischen Ökonomie

    Möller, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.2031.12.20

    Project: Teaching

  23. Verfassungsrechtliche Schutzpflichten zur Bekämpfung des Bienensterbens

    Böttinger, J. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    02.03.1630.09.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  24. Gewinnung und Nutzung von Lebenszyklusdaten im betrieblichen Kontext

    Möller, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.0803.03.11

    Project: Research

  25. PostDoc Academy: 3. Kursdurchlauf an der Leuphana

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    01.08.2031.03.22

    Project: Research

  26. Social Entrepreneurs: Social Entepreneurs as Evolutionary Agents in the German Institutional Landscape

    Beckmann, M. (Project manager, academic), Ney, S. (Partner) & Gräbnitz, D. (Project staff)

    01.04.1020.12.12

    Project: Research

  27. Ressourcenpolitik und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Globalisierung

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bauhardt, C. (Partner)

    01.04.1031.03.13

    Project: Research

  28. Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie Niedersachsen

    Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Hartmann, E. (Project staff) & Redenius, P. (Project staff)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.01.2231.12.25

    Project: Research

  29. Mechanisms of soil erosion, soil properties and Ecoscape analysis as a function of species richness and species composition in subtropical forests

    Aßmann, T. (Project manager, academic), Kühn, P. (Project manager, academic), Scholten, T. (Project manager, academic) & Schmidt, K. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    19.02.1412.04.19

    Project: Research

  30. EBEB: European Business Environmental Barometer

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Wagner, M. (Project staff), Dyllick, T. (Partner) & Ytterhus, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.0128.02.02

    Project: Research

  31. A Change in Perspective - The Role of Photography in Environmental Communication

    Brosien, P. N. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)

    01.05.20 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  32. EDGE: Evaluating the Delivery of participatory environmenal Governance using an Evidence-based research design

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Jager, N. W. (Project staff) & Challies, E. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.1131.03.16

    Project: Research

  33. Waldbiodiversitätsexperiment TP SP 6

    Staab, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.2531.10.26

    Project: Research

  34. The role of herbivory in mediating ecosystem functions in species-rich forests

    Schuldt, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.1431.07.16

    Project: Research

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