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. Mental Accounting in Negotiations

    Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.07.1730.06.22

    Project: Research

  2. Science Blog der Schreibwerkstatt MINT der Uni Bremen

    Rodenhauser, A. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.1701.10.18

    Project: Practical Project

  3. A simple process for the decentralized utilization of biogenic residues

    Peinemann, J. (Project manager, academic) & Pleißner, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.1731.05.20

    Project: Research

  4. E-Learning basierte Einführungskurse in das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und die Betriebswirtschaftslehre (sowie inhaltsbezogen studienrelevante Englisch-Kompetenzen)

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Blume, C. (Project staff)

    01.05.1730.09.17

    Project: Other

  5. "Invasive" Arten im Prozessschutz

    Kapitza, K. (Project manager, academic) & Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)

    01.05.1730.04.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  6. GOVERNECT: Governance of Environmental Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems of Global Inter-Regional Connectedness

    Lenschow, A. (Project manager, academic), Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Challies, E. (Project manager, academic) & Cotta, B. (Project staff)

    German Research Foundation

    01.04.1731.12.20

    Project: Research

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Publications

  1. Al Kaida als aktueller Forschungsgegenstand
  2. Technology and the spiritual
  3. Schreiben in der Grundschule
  4. Das Spiel in der Gesellschaft
  5. Gegen\Dokumentation
  6. Der Einfluss von Armut und Reichtum auf die Lebenszufriedenheit
  7. Europa
  8. Pleistocene pollen records from Schöningen, North Germany
  9. Personal
  10. Teaching Games for Understanding – Ein vernachlässigter Ansatz in der deutschsprachigen Sportpädagogik?
  11. Hermann Bahr - Der Antisemitismus
  12. Zur Validität eines Mathematiktests für die Auswahl von Bewerber*innen auf ein Lehramtsstudium
  13. Education for Sustainable Development after 2014: Results, Perspectives and Visions
  14. IMAGE: Development of a European curriculum for the training of prevention managers
  15. Invertebrate herbivory rather than competition with tussocks will increasingly delay highland forest regeneration in degraded areas under active restoration
  16. Redistributive Tax Co-operation: Automatic Exchange of Information, US Power and the Absence of Joint Gains
  17. Wer? Wie? Was? Analyse didaktischer Materialien für Popmusik in der Grundschule
  18. Verhalten ändern - im Team geht’s besser
  19. The Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Vocational Education:
  20. Übergänge in die Offene Hochschule durch Learn-Life-Balance und Diversity-Strategien
  21. Responses to Thanks in Ireland, England and Canada
  22. Die forschungsbasierte Ausgestaltung der Studieneingangsphase in den Ingenieurwissenschaften
  23. German works councils and productivity
  24. Temporäre Nutzungen
  25. What makes communication ‘organizational’? How the many voices of a collectivity become the one voice of an organization
  26. Vorsorgevollmachten in transnationalen Fällen
  27. Niemand war schon immer da
  28. O-Ton Oberstufe
  29. Field trips in environmental education