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. Didaktische Zugänge zum Thema Handy im Kontext der BNE

    Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Fischer, D. (Coordination)

    01.07.1323.03.18

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  2. Verantwortung für Nachhaltigkeit

    Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic), John, F. (Project staff), Quaas, M. F. (Partner), Klauer, B. (Partner), Schiller, J. (Partner), Krysiak, F. C. (Partner), Petersen, T. (Partner) & Williams, G. D. (Partner)

    01.07.1330.06.14

    Project: Research

  3. ABIS Doctoral Summer School 2013

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

    European Academy for Business and Society

    01.08.1330.06.14

    Project: Scientific event

  4. Environmental Communication among the Media and Environmental NGOs in Malaysia

    Mohamad Saleh, M. S. (Project staff) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1330.09.16

    Project: Dissertation project

  5. Nachhaltige Raum- und Regionalentwicklung in der "Energiewende"

    Heilmann, S. (Project manager, academic) & Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1330.09.18

    Project: Dissertation project

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Publications

  1. Künstlerbiographien
  2. Die mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus
  3. Experimental and numerical thermo-mechanical analysis of wire-based laser metal deposition of Al-Mg alloys
  4. Probleme des Datentransfers bei der Zusammenarbeit von Schule und Jugendhilfe
  5. The policy turn in German political science
  6. Mitbestimmung des Betriebsrats
  7. M. R. Kukrit Pramoj’s theory of good governance and political change
  8. Can rare arable plants benefit biological pest control potential of cereal aphids in croplands?
  9. Impact Assessment of Scottish Independence on the Space Sector
  10. Philoktet, Odysseus, Neoptolemos, Ajax
  11. Forschendes Lernen im Chemieunterricht einer inklusiven Schule
  12. The walking debt crisis
  13. La qualification des infractions fiscales en Allemagne
  14. How Citizen Entrepreneurship Works
  15. Kommunistische Parteien
  16. Notting Hill Gate 4
  17. Simulationsbasierte Optimierung des Umgangs mit Chef-Aufträgen im Produktionsbetrieb
  18. Zeit-los im Studio?
  19. Interkulturelle Eignungsdiagnostik
  20. Optical Diagrams as “Paper Tools”
  21. Religion lernen, Bd. 3
  22. Zur Effizienz von Lernprozessen
  23. Demokratiekompetenz als berufliche Handlungskompetenz
  24. The effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market
  25. Individual States as Guardians of Community Interests
  26. Demokratie und Postdemokratie
  27. Modellieren = Sachrechnen?
  28. Information system on literature in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability
  29. Re-Collection
  30. Wie Menschen überflüssig gemacht werden
  31. „Die sind nicht unbedingt auf Schule orientiert“