School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Faculty
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
Topics
Als Träger der universitätsweiten Wissenschaftsinitiative Nachhaltigkeitsforschung fragt die Fakultät nach Bedingungen und Chancen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Die Fakultät verbindet dazu Human- und Naturwissenschaften mit derzeit etwa 25 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Chemie, Informatik, Kommunikation, Management, Ökologie, Philosophie, Planung, Politik, Psychologie, Recht, Technik und VWL. Die transdisziplinären Arbeitsweisen in Forschung, Studium und Dienstleistungen zielen insbesondere darauf, zukünftige Entwicklungschancen für die Zivilgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts zu schaffen und zu erhalten.
ISC3: Internationales Kooperationszentrum Nachhaltige Chemie ISC3 Phase II
01.01.21 → 31.12.24
Project: Other
Social Innovation Thinkathon - Innovative teaching and learning concepts: Innovation plus
01.01.21 → 31.12.22
Project: Teaching
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Conflicts as a Barrier to Sustainable Solutions
01.01.21 → 31.03.24
Project: Research
VidEX: Video4Bio – Lehren und Lernen mittels biologischer Experimentier-Videos
01.01.21 → 31.12.21
Project: Other
Gender Equality in the 21st Century - Country-Level and Individual-Level Factors Related to Women’s and Men’s Intentions to Contribute to Childcare – A Cross-National Comparison across 49 Countries
Schuster, C., Martiny, S. E., Schmader, T., Block, K., Van Laar, C. & Meeussen, L.
15.01.21 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
RangeX: Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change
Haider, S., Buhaly, M., Alexander, J. M., Clark, V. R., Høye, T. T., Kardol, P. & Vandvik, V.
01.04.21 → 31.03.24
Project: Research
ZIL-Kontakt: Sustainable information logistics for digital contact tracing of infectious diseases
Drews, P., Funk, B., Heger, J., Lehr, D., Zimmer, M. P., Kortmann, F., Fassmeyer, P. & Usko, N.
21.05.21 → 31.03.23
Project: Research
C2C-Modellregion: Modellvorhaben: Neue Strategien und Strukturen für eine Cradle to Cradle Modellregion in Nordost-Niedersachsen
01.06.21 → 30.04.24
Project: Research
A-SYM: The role of (non-)synchronous coordination and its quantification in joint action
Wallot, S., Mønster, D., Leonardi, G. & Gordon, I.
01.07.21 → 30.06.25
Project: Research
DigiTal - Teilprojekt 06: Skills for a Digital Future. Entwicklung eines studienbegleitenden Formats zur Reflexion des eigenen Lern- und Entwicklungsprozesses für Studierende
Abels, S. & Dablé, N.
01.08.21 → 31.07.24
Project: Teaching
DigiTal - Teilprojekt 09: Digitale Lehr-/Lernformate zur Internationalisierung der Master- und Promotionsphase
Abels, S., Soltau, A. & Sundermann, A.
01.08.21 → 31.07.24
Project: Teaching
s4f: studies4future - Blog für Gesellschaftsgestaltung
01.11.21 → 31.12.22
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Move'n'Sense: Sense of place and mobility in cross-border contexts – essentialist and progressive perspectives
Gottwald, S. & Kołodyńska, I.
05.11.21 → 02.01.25
Project: Research
PRIME - Changing understandings in businesses for the achievement of societal sustainability aims
Schaltegger, S. & Imbrogiano, J.
01.12.21 → 31.05.23
Project: Research
Digidok: Das Versuchsprotokoll 2.0 - aus analog wird digital
Abels, S. & Stinken-Rösner, L.
01.01.22 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
FoLe-Diklusiv: Forschendes Lernen mit digitalen Medien als Beitrag zu erfolgreicher Inklusion
Stinken-Rösner, L. & Abels, S.
01.01.22 → 28.02.23
Project: Research
Linking soil chemical legacies with root economics to improve the predictability of plant-soil feedbacks
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie Niedersachsen
Heinrichs, H., Hartmann, E. & Redenius, P.
01.01.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Met-Total: Plant Meta-Metabolomics – Development of an Unbiased Survey of Habitat-Dependent Metabolic Diversity (Met-Total)
Wessjohann, L. & Haider, S.
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Towards robust detection of plant diversity & management in grasslands’ spectral signals
Doktor, D. & Haider, S.
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
TRACE: TRACE – TRAit-environment interactions driving elevational range expansions under ClimatE change
Haider, S. & Ratier Backes, A.
01.01.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
BETA-FOR: Understorey plant assemblages and primary production
von Oheimb, G. & Fichtner, A.
01.05.22 → 01.05.26
Project: Research
IRISS: The InteRnatIonal ecosystem for accelerating the transition to Safe-and-Sustainable-by-design materials, products and processes
Kümmerer, K., Olsson, O. & Apel, C.
01.06.22 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
TransPharm: Transforming into a sustainable European pharmaceutical sector
01.06.22 → 31.05.26
Project: Research
SPONSORs Zertifikats
Schaltegger, S., Schmitt, C. & Sachs, B.
01.07.22 → 30.06.24
Project: Transfer (professional training)
„Transformations: Räume für zukunftsorientiertes Lernen"
Japsen, A., Meier, N., Wenzel, M., Farny, S., Schmidt, T. & Cnossen, B.
01.07.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Other
GrünlandVielfalt: Ökologische und gesellschaftliche Grünland-Transformation in der Ise-Niederung"
Petersen-Schlapkohl, U., Temperton, V. & Ernst, L. M.
01.10.22 → …
Project: Research
KuNaH: Hochschulen in Gesellschaft – Realexperimente transformativer Lern- und Forschungsprozesse für eine Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit an Hochschulen: Teilprojekt D - Begleitung Realexperimente und Synthese
Schaltegger, S., Lang, D. J., Potthast, T., Singer-Brodowski, M., Nölting, B., Parodi, O. & Scheiding, C.
01.10.22 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
DAS: Studienpfad für den Beruf als kommunale*r Klimamanager*in
Hörisch, J., Möller, S. & Redenius, P.
01.10.22 → 31.03.25
Project: Research
Circular EURO 2024
Süßenbach, J., Schröder, S., Greve, S. & Abels, S.
25.10.22 → 30.06.25
Project: Research
I4C: IMPETUS4CHANGE (I4C): Improving near-term climate predictions for societal transformation
01.11.22 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung
Salisch, M., Voltmer, K., Koch, K., Langlotz, M. & Hormann, O.
01.12.22 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
TreeDi: Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P2: Complementarity through trait variation
Haider, S., Harpole, W. S., Ma, Z. & Yang, B.
01.12.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
TreeDi: Tree Diversity Interactions (TreeDi): The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P1: Spatial above- and belowground complementarity
von Oheimb, G., Fichtner, A., Liu, X., Ma, K. & Bu, W.
01.12.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research