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. MECS: DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe MECS (Medienkulturen der Computersimulation)

    Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Warnke, M. (Project manager, academic), Vehlken, S. (Project staff), Schrape, N. (Project staff), Schrickel, I. (Project staff), Stöcklmayr, N. (Project staff), Engemann, C. (Project staff), Winter, F. (Project staff) & Wellmann, J. (Project staff)

    01.01.1331.07.22

    Project: Research

  2. GCEF: Global Change Experimental Facility

    Haider, S. (Project staff) & Auge, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.13 → …

    Project: Research

  3. I4S: Research and Competence Training Network for Sustainability-Driven Innovation

    Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Hansen, E. G. (Partner) & Wicki, S. (Project staff)

    European Commission

    01.01.1331.12.16

    Project: Research

  4. sPlot "Plant trait-environment relationships across the world's biomes"

    Bruelheide, H. (Project manager, academic) & Haider, S. (Project staff)

    01.01.13 → …

    Project: Research

  5. Unesco Chair

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    01.01.1331.12.19

    Project: Other

  6. Micropollutants in Greywater: Personal care products (PCPs) as source for micropollutants in Greywater – Identification, quantification and on-site treatment. /

    Olsson, O. (Project manager, academic), Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic), Friedler, E. (Partner), Dubwoski, Y. (Project manager, academic) & Jentzsch, F. (Project staff)

    Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony

    03.12.1231.07.16

    Project: Research

  7. TR_Zusatz von Kreide in Kläranlagen

    Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)

    15.11.1225.06.13

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  8. 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. Systematisch zur (E-) Learning Excellence
  2. Halboffene Weidelandschaft Höltigbaum
  3. Air concentrations and particlegas partitioning of polyfluoroalkyl compounds at a wastewater treatment plant
  4. Enhanced granular medium-based tube and hollow profile press hardening
  5. Fehlgeburt und Stillgeburt
  6. Der Westberliner "underground"
  7. Spiegelbild, sprechender Spiegel, leerer Spiegel
  8. Ludus non tollit abusum
  9. Innovating entrepreneurial pedagogy
  10. Aufsätze im SMS-Stil?
  11. Age and Future
  12. Effect of salinity on filtration rates of mussels Mytilus edulis with special emphasis on dwarfed mussels from the low-saline Central Baltic Sea
  13. Gesundheitsfördernde Hochschulen
  14. Originäre und derivative Unternehmensgründung
  15. PRBs for remediation of PAHs, BTEX and related contaminants
  16. Der Überpapst
  17. Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften
  18. Organizational Behaviour - Verhalten in Organisationen
  19. Atomrecht im Wandel
  20. Crowdfunding
  21. Promoting decentralized sustainable energy systems in different supply scenarios
  22. Forschungsethik in der Kindheitsforschung - Dilemmata, Standards und Reflexionen für das Forschen über, zu und mit Kindern
  23. Stakeholder expectations on CSR management and current regulatory developments in Europe and Germany
  24. Organizational working time regimes
  25. Democratising platform governance in the sharing economy
  26. Big Drama - Small Spaces
  27. Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline
  28. Mainstream und Gegenwartskunst
  29. Habitusformen von Eltern im Kontext der Computerspielnutzung ihrer Kinder
  30. Entscheidung
  31. Internationaler Personaleinsatz
  32. Flipped Classroom am Beispiel aktiven Lernens in der Vorlesung
  33. Der ‚Zürcher Stil der Politikphilosophie’
  34. Strengthening and ductilizing of magnesium alloying with heavy rare earth elements
  35. Clouds and Balloons
  36. Fast Car
  37. Von 1700 bis ins 3. Jahrtausend
  38. THE RADICAL ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN POLITICAL IMAGINATION AND PRODUCTION OF COMMON FUTURE IN BELARUSIAN PROTESTS
  39. Die Berufsbetreuung
  40. Selbstopfer der Naturburschen
  41. Prüfung von Nachhaltigkeitsberichten
  42. Prozessanalytische Modellierung von Wissenskommunikation in chat-basiertem CSCL
  43. KomPädenZ-ein Projekt zur Anrechnung erworbenen Wissens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gender-Mainstreaming-Prinzips
  44. Organisatorische Änderungsprozesse