School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Faculty
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- Institute of Sustainability Governance
- Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity
- Institute of Sustainability Psychology
- Institute of Sustainable Chemistry
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)
- Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute
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.
REMOTIVE: Complementary use of mechanical, physical and chemical technologies for the development of comparative recycling concepts for complex plastic-based automotive components
Kümmerer, K. & Endres, H.
01.10.23 → 30.09.27
Project: Research
Einsatz von Gamification am Beispiel von Artenschutzsensibilisierung
01.10.23 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
The Sufficiency Perspective on Climate Change Mitigation - Policy Measures towards Transformation in Germany
01.10.23 → …
Project: Dissertation project
TrICo Subproject: Community Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Hoyer, R., Wenzel, M., Reihlen, M., Farny, S., Cnossen, B., Hörisch, J., Weisenfeld, U., Penz, F. & Lommel, L.
01.08.23 → 31.12.27
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
TrICo Subproject: Community Sustainable Production
Ben Khalifa, N., Heger, J., Klusemann, B., Schaltegger, S., Schmidt, M., Schulz, J., Stöver, E., Dieringa, H., Zeise, P. & Hendriok, L.
01.08.23 → 31.12.27
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
D&D: Decolonising and Diversifying the Curriculum
Brogan, A., Hobuß, S., Bremer, V., Edlich, M. G. P., List, F. & Lommel, L.
28.06.23 → …
Project: Teaching
Forschergruppe FOR 5375: Teilprojekt SP 8: Pflanzengemeinschaften im Unterstand von Wäldern und Primärproduktion"
01.06.23 → 30.05.26
Project: Research
Planning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a changing world
01.06.23 → 01.06.26
Project: Research
PLUS Change: PLUS Change - Participatory Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a Changing world.
01.06.23 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa
01.05.23 → 30.04.27
Project: Research
FOR5501: A social-ecological systems approach to inform ecosystem restoration in rural Africa . Subproject SP2: Landscape context - landscape-scale restoration dynamics in western Rwanda
Fischer, J. & Kümmerle, T.
01.05.23 → 30.04.27
Project: Research
SInTraA: Social innovative transformation by including work spaces (SinTrA)
Farny, S., Genschow, O., Loschelder, D., Imschloß, M. & Striethörster, M.
01.05.23 → 30.04.26
Project: Research
VaNaTe: Unravelling the relation between Values of Nature and Telecoupling
01.05.23 → 30.04.26
Project: Research
VaNaTe: Unravelling the relation between Values of Nature and Telecoupling
01.05.23 → 30.04.26
Project: Research
LFB-Labs-digital: Schülerlabore als Ort der Lehrkräftefortbildung in der digitalen Welt (BMBF)
01.04.23 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
TrICo Subprojekt: Community School Improvement and Leadership
Kleinknecht, M., Abels, S., Pietsch, M., Marsch, S., Frentz, J., Schellig, H., Hofmann, L. & List, F.
01.01.23 → 31.12.27
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung
Salisch, M., Voltmer, K., Koch, K., Langlotz, M. & Hormann, O.
01.12.22 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
TreeDi: Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P2: Complementarity through trait variation
Haider, S., Harpole, W. S., Ma, Z. & Yang, B.
01.12.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
TreeDi: Tree Diversity Interactions (TreeDi): The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighbourhoods in Chinese subtropical forests; P1: Spatial above- and belowground complementarity
von Oheimb, G., Fichtner, A., Liu, X., Ma, K. & Bu, W.
01.12.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
I4C: IMPETUS4CHANGE (I4C): Improving near-term climate predictions for societal transformation
01.11.22 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
Circular EURO 2024
Süßenbach, J., Schröder, S., Greve, S. & Abels, S.
25.10.22 → 30.06.25
Project: Research
GrünlandVielfalt: Ökologische und gesellschaftliche Grünland-Transformation in der Ise-Niederung"
Petersen-Schlapkohl, U., Temperton, V. & Ernst, L. M.
01.10.22 → …
Project: Research
KuNaH: Hochschulen in Gesellschaft – Realexperimente transformativer Lern- und Forschungsprozesse für eine Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit an Hochschulen: Teilprojekt D - Begleitung Realexperimente und Synthese
Schaltegger, S., Lang, D. J., Potthast, T., Singer-Brodowski, M., Nölting, B., Parodi, O. & Scheiding, C.
01.10.22 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
SPONSORs Zertifikats
Schaltegger, S., Schmitt, C. & Sachs, B.
01.07.22 → 30.06.24
Project: Transfer (professional training)
„Transformations: Räume für zukunftsorientiertes Lernen"
Japsen, A., Meier, N., Wenzel, M., Farny, S., Schmidt, T. & Cnossen, B.
01.07.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Other
IRISS: The InteRnatIonal ecosystem for accelerating the transition to Safe-and-Sustainable-by-design materials, products and processes
Kümmerer, K., Olsson, O. & Apel, C.
01.06.22 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
TransPharm: Transforming into a sustainable European pharmaceutical sector
01.06.22 → 31.05.26
Project: Research
BETA-FOR: Understorey plant assemblages and primary production
von Oheimb, G. & Fichtner, A.
01.05.22 → 01.05.26
Project: Research
Digidok: Das Versuchsprotokoll 2.0 - aus analog wird digital
Abels, S. & Stinken-Rösner, L.
01.01.22 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
FoLe-Diklusiv: Forschendes Lernen mit digitalen Medien als Beitrag zu erfolgreicher Inklusion
Stinken-Rösner, L. & Abels, S.
01.01.22 → 28.02.23
Project: Research
Linking soil chemical legacies with root economics to improve the predictability of plant-soil feedbacks
01.01.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie Niedersachsen
Heinrichs, H., Hartmann, E. & Redenius, P.
01.01.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research