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. A-SYM: The role of (non-)synchronous coordination and its quantification in joint action

    Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic), Mønster, D. (Project manager, academic), Leonardi, G. (Project manager, academic) & Gordon, I. (Project manager, academic)

    German Research Foundation

    01.07.2130.06.25

    Project: Research

  2. ZIL-Kontakt: Sustainable information logistics for digital contact tracing of infectious diseases

    Drews, P. (Project manager, academic), Funk, B. (Project manager, academic), Heger, J. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic), Zimmer, M. P. (Coordination), Kortmann, F. (Project staff), Fassmeyer, P. (Project staff) & Usko, N. (Project manager, academic)

    Europäische Union

    21.05.2131.03.23

    Project: Research

  3. RangeX: Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic), Buhaly, M. (Project staff), Alexander, J. M. (Coordination), Clark, V. R. (Partner), Høye, T. T. (Partner), Kardol, P. (Partner) & Vandvik, V. (Partner)

    01.04.2131.03.25

    Project: Research

  4. 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. (Project manager, academic), Martiny, S. E. (Partner), Schmader, T. (Partner), Block, K. (Partner), Van Laar, C. (Partner) & Meeussen, L. (Partner)

    German Research Foundation

    15.01.2131.12.23

    Project: Research

  5. iCon: Analysing plant invasions in their environmental context

    Haider, S. (Project manager, academic), Milanović, M. (Project staff) & Kühn, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.01.2131.12.23

    Project: Research

  6. ESD for 2030: Lernen für und in resiliente(n) und nachhaltige(n) Kommunen

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Bürgener, L. (Coordination) & Drautz, S. (Project staff)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    01.01.2131.12.24

    Project: Research

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