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. Machbarkeitsstudie für das Projekt Nachhaltige Geschäftsmodelle und Wissensnetzwerke - Entwicklung des Wissensnetzwerks Sustainability durch Informationstechnik auf der Grundlage softwaregestützter nachhaltiger Geschäftsmodelle

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

    01.04.0131.05.02

    Project: Research

  2. EML-Symposium: 6th Environmental Management Leadership Symposium

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Esders, M. (Project staff) & Harms, D. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.12.0909.06.11

    Project: Research

  3. Mindsets in value-driven conflicts

    Schuster, C. (Project manager, academic) & Harinck, F. (Partner)

    01.08.2031.07.21

    Project: Research

  4. Proyecto de educación ambiental para la conservación del Área Protegida Municipal Bosque de Bolognia

    Miranda, O. (Project manager, academic), Benavides Frias, C. (Project manager, academic), Flores, S. (Project manager, academic) & Antezana, N. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.16 → …

    Project: Teaching

  5. Green Fashion Challenge: Modekultur, Textilien und Nachhaltigkeit

    Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic) & Hampe, L. (Project staff)

    01.01.2001.03.21

    Project: Other

  6. ZIM Korrosionssensor: Entwicklung eines Sensors zur kontinuierlichen Überwachung von Korrosions- und Belagbildungsprozessen

    Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic) & Opel, O. (Project staff)

    01.11.1212.04.16

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

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Publications

  1. Wiederherstellung degradierter Sandheidelebensräume
  2. Mitya Churikov
  3. Finanzmathematische Effektivzins-Berechnungsmethoden
  4. Philippe Parreno at Schinkel Pavillon and Esther Schipper
  5. The sustainability balanced scorecard
  6. Matheprofis im Gespräch - Kleingruppenarbeit im Mathematikunterricht
  7. Spiele in heterogenen Lerngruppen gemeinsam inszenieren
  8. Kritik als Entunterwerfung. Anmerkungen zu Foucaults Aufsatz 'Was ist Kritik?'
  9. Masse, Volumen, Dichte
  10. Das Emotionsspektrum von Autofahrern im Straßenverkehr
  11. Die Bauhaustänze Oskar Schlemmers.
  12. Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining
  13. Fallstudie für Studierende: Haftung im Grenzbereich, Teil 4
  14. Die Tagesschau, zur Geschichte einer Nachrichtensendung, Nea Matzen; Christian Radler (Hg.)
  15. Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
  16. Mediatisierte Praktiken der kollektiven Anteilnahme im Fokus metapragmatischer Kritik
  17. A Place Apart: Opportunities in Developing
  18. Fallstudie für Studierende: Haftung im Grenzbereich, Teil 3
  19. Talks about sustainability—Sustainable talks? communicative construction of the social fiction of sustainability
  20. "Ah no honestly we’re okay"
  21. Analyzing management preferences for sustainability
  22. Taxonomic revision of the Graphipterus serrator (Forskål) group (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
  23. Die Schattenseiten der künstlichen Intelligenz
  24. Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages?
  25. Nachhaltigkeit - eine mächtige, normative, soziale Fiktion
  26. Then and Now: The 20th Anniversary of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets