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. International evaluation off interpretation training options at all levels in the BSR.

    Wohlers, L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0530.12.05

    Project: Research

  2. Lebenswelt Hochschule (als Teilprojekt des interdisziplinären Gesamtprojekts „Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Kontext universitärer Aufgabenstellungen“)

    Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic) & Rieckmann, M. (Project staff)

    01.07.0430.06.07

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  3. Anwendung des TOP-Runner-Ansatzes auf Konsumgüter

    Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    05.01.0929.10.12

    Project: Research

  4. RNE: Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Konzepte und Instrumente

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Müller, A. (Project staff), Klewitz, J. (Project staff) & Harms, D. (Project staff)

    01.12.0830.04.10

    Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)

  5. Virtual Copernicus Campus - eLearning for Sustainability in the European Higher Education Area

    Barth, M. (Project manager, academic) & Burandt, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.03.0528.02.06

    Project: Research

  6. SoCoFarm: SoCoFarm: Soil Communication by Farmers; Study on Farmer´s Perception of and Communication about Soils

    Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic) & Tischbierek, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.14 → …

    Project: Other

  7. Met-Total: Plant Meta-Metabolomics – Development of an Unbiased Survey of Habitat-Dependent Metabolic Diversity (Met-Total)

    Wessjohann, L. (Project manager, academic) & Haider, S. (Project staff)

    01.01.2231.12.24

    Project: Research

  8. INPLAMINT: Increasing agricultural nutrient-use efficiency by optimizing plant-soil-microorganism interactions

    Temperton, V. (Project manager, academic), von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic), Brüggemann, N. (Project manager, academic), Rillig, M. C. (Project manager, academic), Schloter, M. (Project manager, academic), Müller-Lindenlauf, M. (Project manager, academic), Bonkowski, M. (Project manager, academic), Koller, R. (Project manager, academic), Kage, H. (Project manager, academic) & Armbruster, M. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.04.1531.03.18

    Project: Research

  9. Planerische, technische und ökologische Anforderungen an das Freileitungsrecht

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

    02.11.15 → …

    Project: Dissertation project

  10. Local Food GCSO: GCSO_Transferring and Scaling Sustainable Local Food Economy Solutions

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Hagenbeck, J. (Project staff) & Hübel, C. (Project staff)

    01.07.1831.12.19

    Project: Other

  11. Language for Sustainability: Sustaining Biodiversity and Biocultures

    Manuel-Navarrete, D. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic), Lam, D. (Project staff), Dillon-Swanson, T. (Project manager, academic), Gerber, L. (Project staff), Mwampamba, T. H. (Project manager, academic), Escalante, A. E. (Project staff) & Camou Guerreroe, A. (Project staff)

    01.07.1830.06.19

    Project: Research

  12. Aqua-Agenten

    Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Lange, M. (Project staff) & Lang, F. (Project staff)

    01.05.10 → …

    Project: Practical Project

  13. CapaCity: Building Sustainability Implementation Capacity in City Staff and Leadership

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), John, B. (Project staff), Wiek, A. (Project manager, academic), Keeler, L. W. (Project staff), Beaudoin, F. D. (Project manager, academic), Fink, J. (Project staff), Shandas, V. (Project staff), Lerner, A. (Project staff), Almasan, O. (Project staff) & Tamm, K. (Project staff)

    01.03.1728.02.18

    Project: Research

  14. Analysing sustainability competencies of students

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Rieckmann, M. (Coordination) & Timm, J.-M. (Coordination)

    01.05.1230.04.13

    Project: Research

  15. DSADS - "Den Spurenstoffen auf der Spur" - Teil 1: „Herkunftsanalyse und Sensibilisierung im Stadtgebiet Dülmen."

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic), Olsson, O. (Project staff), Nafo, I. (Coordination), Götz, K. (Partner), Liesenfeld, J. (Partner) & Keil, F. (Partner)

    Ministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

    30.10.1220.12.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  16. Biodiversity and productivity in rangelands and their management

    von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic) & Engler, J.-O. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1530.06.15

    Project: Research

  17. Promoting Knowledge in Times of Global Change - A Platform on Transdisciplinary Sustainability Sciences

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic), Ahlers, T. (Partner), Fischer, D. (Coordination), Marwege, R. (Project staff), Richter, S. (Project staff), Hetze, K. (Project staff), Metz, C. (Project staff), Mader, M. (Project staff) & Timm, J.-M. (Project staff)

    01.05.1107.08.23

    Project: Research

  18. 100% EE-Region: 100% erneuerbare-Energie-Region Landkreis und Hansestadt Lüneburg

    Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic)

    29.06.1120.04.15

    Project: Research

  19. FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung

    Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic), Koch, K. (Partner), Langlotz, M. (Partner) & Hormann, O. (Partner)

    01.12.2230.11.25

    Project: Research

  20. EPS: Distance Education for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Regional Development in Latvia

    Lütkemöller, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.0131.08.04

    Project: Research

  21. Zukunftscamp - Future Now

    Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Bartsch, A. (Project staff) & Wüllner, C. (Project staff)

    01.04.0730.03.09

    Project: Practical Project

  22. 3-LENSUS: Lifelong Learning Network for Sustainable Development

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Adomßent, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.0931.07.11

    Project: Research

  23. BISS-FDS: Fühlen Denken Sprechen: Professionalisierung alltagsintegrierter sprachlicher Bildung bei ein- und mehrsprachlich aufwachsenden Kindern

    Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Mähler, C. (Project manager, academic), Cloos, P. (Project manager, academic) & Koch, K. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.1631.01.20

    Project: Research

  24. 2042 - Germany Europe World 2042 - a Transformation is possible

    Burandt, S. (Coordination)

    01.01.1431.12.42

    Project: Research

  25. CfN: Caring for natures? Geschlechterperspektiven auf (Vor)Sorge im Umgang mit ,Natur/en‘

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Mölders, T. (Project manager, academic), Kapitza, K. (Project staff), Deininger, M. (Project staff) & Katz, C. (Partner)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.02.1730.09.20

    Project: Research

  26. VaNaTe: Unravelling the relation between Values of Nature and Telecoupling

    Martín-López, B. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.2330.04.26

    Project: Research

  27. Teach about US: Educational Outreach Project - Bridging the American Studies and Science Classrooms: Going Green Meets STEM

    Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Abels, S. (Partner) & Hüfner, S. K. (Project staff)

    24.02.1730.09.18

    Project: Practical Project

  28. Future generations in present-day democracy. The theory and practice of proxy representation.

    Rose, M. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1206.12.16

    Project: Dissertation project

  29. Die Entwicklung der energierechtlichen Pflichten der Übertragungsnetzbetreiber

    Hobbeling, F. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)

    17.06.0626.08.10

    Project: Dissertation project

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