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. FSM I: International Leadership Training (ILT) Sustainability Management - Onlinephase Jahrgang I

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Dubielzig, F. (Project staff), Seidl, N. (Project staff) & Grimm, J. (Project staff)

    01.02.0911.03.10

    Project: Transfer (professional training)

  2. Studienreise Israel

    Aßmann, T. (Project manager, academic)

    03.02.0923.06.09

    Project: Research

  3. NGet: NGet - sustainable building energy technologies

    Möller, A. (Project manager, academic)

    18.02.0931.12.10

    Project: Research

  4. Neue Medien in der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung - GPS-Bildungsrouten im Biosphärenreservat Flusslandschaft Elbe

    Möller, A. (Project manager, academic), Pez, P. (Project manager, academic) & Corleis, F. (Coordination)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    03.03.0917.10.11

    Project: Research

  5. Klimaschutz und Verwirklichung eines globalen Nachhaltigkeitsideals

    Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Guerra González, J. (Project staff)

    11.03.0930.08.11

    Project: Research

  6. CS Barometer: Corporate Sustainability Barometer 2010

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Windolph, S. E. (Project staff) & Harms, D. (Project staff)

    01.04.0914.02.11

    Project: Research

  7. RESI: Kölner Netzwerk „Resozialisierung und Soziale Integration

    Plewig, H.-J. (Project manager, academic) & Kohlschmidt, A. (Partner)

    01.04.0901.09.12

    Project: Research

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Publications

  1. A geology of media
  2. Subcutaneous Administration of Drugs in Palliative Care
  3. Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Mental Health Problems
  4. Feldstudie zur Entwicklung der Rechenfertigkeit von Erstklässlern.
  5. "i like reggae and Bob Marley is already dead"
  6. Political persecution in Syria and Eritrea: The use of country knowledge by German courts
  7. Vulnerablility of Ecosystem Services in Farmland Depends on Landscape Management
  8. Kunst-Handel im Medien-Wandel
  9. Kindertagesstätten aus Elternsicht
  10. The marketing and public affairs of sustainability
  11. Bewegte Sprache
  12. Towards a governance of sustainability transitions
  13. Das Alltagsmedium Blatt im kulturellen Wandel
  14. Formen der Berücksichtigung
  15. Time Machine
  16. Im Namen der Emanzipation
  17. From Short Story to Stage
  18. Introduction: "Did Somebody Say New Media?"
  19. Selbsthilfe als private Zwangsvollstreckung
  20. Dezentrale Eigenstromversorgung mit Solarenergie und Batteriespeichern: Systemorientierung erforderlich
  21. Qualitätsmanagement durch universitäre Ideen in modernen Prozessen
  22. Der Rhein, die Schokolade, das Exkrement
  23. Erdkabel
  24. Rezension zu: Ball, Philip: Curiosity. How Science Became Interested in Everything. Chicago 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-04579-5
  25. The Carapacial Ridge of Turtles
  26. Managing Eco-efficiency Development for Sustainability: An Investigation of Top Carbon Polluters in Australia
  27. Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management
  28. Partizipation als reflexive Praxis im Hilfeplangespräch?
  29. Autoportrait
  30. Subjective and biological weight-related parameters in adolescents and young adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorder under clozapine or olanzapine treatment.
  31. Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity