School of Sustainability
Organisational unit: Research School
- 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.
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.
VCC: Virtual Copernicus Campus
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.05 → 31.12.07
Project: Other
Virtual Copernicus Campus - eLearning for Sustainability in the European Higher Education Area
Barth, M. (Project manager, academic) & Burandt, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.05 → 28.02.06
Project: Research
Vom Öko zum Ökopreneur – Förderung der Gründung von nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Start-ups und KMU bei nachhaltigkeitsbewussten Studierenden und jungen Erwachsenen
Hörisch, J. (Project manager, academic) & Buhr, M. (Project staff)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
01.03.22 → 01.03.25
Project: Research
Von Weltbürger_innen und Anderen. Subjektivation im entwicklungspolitischen Freiwilligendienst weltwärts
Kontzi, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 05.02.14
Project: Dissertation project
Vorsorgendes Wirschaften: Wege zur gesellschaftlichen Transformation. Diskursanalytische Untersuchung des Transformationsfeldes Energie
Amri-Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.16 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Vorstudie: Universitäre und universitätsübergreifende Voraussetzungen für Nachwuchsförderung im Themenfeld "Gender und Nachhaltigkeit".
Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Katz, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.00 → 01.04.01
Project: Research
Wachsende Skulptur: Wachsende Skulptur. Heiligengeistschule Lüneburg - Eine wachsende Skulptur im Horizont nachhaltiger Entwicklung
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, V. (Project staff), Kurt, H. (Partner) & Steinmann, G. (Partner)
01.04.09 → 30.04.10
Project: Practical Project
Waldwissen; wa'gen: Waldwissen und Naturerfahrungen auf dem Prüfstand: Reflexion von Natur- und Tätigkeitsverständnissen zur Entwicklung einer gendersensiblen forstlichen Waldbildungskompetenz
Katz, C. (Project manager, academic) & Mayer, M. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.05.05 → 30.11.08
Project: Research
Wasser-Ressourcenpreis 2015
Kümmerer, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.15 → 31.12.19
Project: Other
BiodiWert: Was sind erfolgreiche Konzepte zur Wiederherstellung artenreichen Grünlandes in Deutschland? Eine multiregionale Bewertung sozial-ökologischer Systeme und pilothafte Umsetzung (Grassworks)
Temperton, V. (Project manager, academic), Leventon, J. (Project staff), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic), Martín-López, B. (Project staff), May, F. (Project staff), Tischew, S. (Partner), Kirmer, A. (Partner), Kollmann, J. (Partner), Beckmann, V. (Partner), Dieker, P. (Partner), Thiele, J. (Partner) & Metzner, J. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.20 → 30.09.21
Project: Research
Water reuse for green hydrogen production (WtR4GH2)
Adisorn, T. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
01.10.24 → …
Project: Dissertation project
WaterScale: WaterScale - Skalenprobleme von Environmental Governance am Beispiel der Institutionalisierung von Flussgebietsmanagement durch die EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Moss, T. (Partner)
15.06.10 → 31.12.13
Project: Research
Web-Plattformen für eine„Nachhaltige Informationsgesellschaft“Grundlagen und Erfolgsfaktoren
Möller, A. (Project manager, academic), Rolf, A. (Project manager, academic) & Mandel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.00 → 30.09.01
Project: Research
Weiterentwicklung von Maßnahmen und Instrumenten zur Sicherstellung einheitlicher Berücksichtigung von Umweltbelangen in Genehmigungsverfahren
Antoni, J. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
07.04.10 → 30.09.16
Project: Dissertation project
Welcome to Africa
Baumgärtner, S. (Project manager, academic) & Olbrich, R. (Project staff)
01.01.12 → 10.05.12
Project: Teaching
WTW: Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal - An Urban Transition Laboratory for Sustainable Economics
Rose, M. (Partner)
01.05.15 → 30.04.18
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
DB: Wertorientierte Ausrichtung des Umweltmanagements. Fallstudie Deutsche Bahn AG
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Jänicke, N. T. (Project staff) & Hellmann, K. (Project staff)
01.08.02 → 30.04.03
Project: Practical Project
Wettbewerb Zukunftsstadt - Planungs- und Umsetzungskonzept der Vision 2030+ (2. Phase)
Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Weiser, A. (Project staff) & Seidel, A. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.17 → 30.06.18
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
EPISUS: What Epistemology for Sustainability Science? Experiments and Theories for Social Transformation
Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic) & Caniglia, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 30.09.19
Project: Research
Wie müsste ein „EU-Instrumentenmix“ konzipiert sein, der die Marktdurchdringung der – auch auf internationaler Ebene – leistungsfähigsten Produkte und Technologien bewirkt und dabei höchstmögliche Material- und Ressourceneffizienz garantiert?
Winzer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.10 → 28.02.13
Project: Dissertation project
Wildlife, Values, Justice: Reconciling Sustainability in African Proteced Areas
Loos, J. (Project manager, academic), Fust, P. (Project staff), Giliba, R. (Project staff), Kachali, R. (Project staff), Thomsen, S. (Project staff) & Räther, A. (Project staff)
01.07.18 → 30.06.25
Project: Research
Wildnis und nachhaltige Entwicklung
Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.07 → …
Project: Research
WiN: Wirtschaften in Netzen – Stärkung regionaler Absatzmärkte für KMU als Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Region
Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic), Lang, F. J. (Project staff), Burandt, A. (Project staff), Schrader, R. (Project staff), Thiem, A. (Project staff) & Japsen, A. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.08.10 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Wirtschaftsethik – Quo vadis? Symposion der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg am 10./11. Februar 2012
Oermann, N. O. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 10.05.12
Project: Scientific event
Wissenschaftliche Begleitung der Entwicklung von Unterrichtsmaterial zum Thema Handy
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Fischer, D. (Project staff)
01.10.14 → 03.04.15
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Wissenschaftliche Begleitung der Umsetzung der Ökodesign-Richtlinie und Energieverbrauchskennzeichnungsrichtlinie -Arbeitsprogramm ab 2012
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.13 → 01.02.16
Project: Research
Wissenschaftliche Qualifizierungswege - Mentoring an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Thiem, A. (Project staff) & Hofmeister, S. (Partner)
01.01.07 → 30.04.12
Project: Teaching
Wissenschaftsraum "Future Trends in Education. Schule transformieren durch Demokratiebildung und Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung - Future.Ed"
Pietsch, M. (Project manager, academic), Abels, S. (Project manager, academic), Idel, T.-S. (Project manager, academic), Speck, K. (Project manager, academic), Nonte, S. (Project manager, academic) & Reintjes, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.25 → 31.12.29
Project: Research
Wölfen auf der Spur
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Rode, H. (Project staff)
Landesjägerschaft Niedersachsen e.V.
01.10.12 → 25.03.15
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Working group “Consensus network of invasion hypotheses”
Haider, S. (Partner), Jeschke, J. M. (Project manager, academic), Enders, M. (Project manager, academic), Bernard-Verdier, M. (Project staff), Catford, J. A. (Project staff), Gómez-Aparicio, L. (Project staff), Heger, T. (Project staff), Meyerson, L. A. (Project staff), Novoa, A. (Project staff), Ricciardi, A. (Project staff), Vila, M. (Project staff), Essl, F. (Project staff), Hulme, P. E. (Project staff), van Kleunen, M. (Project staff), Lockwood, J. L. (Project staff), Pyšek, P. (Project staff), Strayer, D. L. (Project staff) & Yannelli, F. A. (Project staff)
01.01.18 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
SÖF - ReZeitKon: Zeit-Rebound, Zeitwohlstand und nachhaltiger Konsum - Teilprojekt C: Bildung für nachhaltigen Konsum
Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic), Frank, P. (Project staff) & Grauer, C. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.18 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Zertifizierung von Umweltbildungseinrichtungen
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.06 → 19.07.10
Project: Other
ZIM - Kälteabsorptionsanlagen
Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → 17.11.20
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Zukünftige Energiepolitik
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.96 → 30.03.98
Project: Research
Zukunftscamp - Future Now
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic), Bartsch, A. (Project staff) & Wüllner, C. (Project staff)
01.04.07 → 30.03.09
Project: Practical Project
Zukunftscamp ‚future now’. - Ein Projekt zur Entwicklung eines außerschulischen Bildungskonzepts für Jugendliche aus Hauptschulen. In Kooperation mit dem DGB Bildungswerk.
Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.07 → 30.11.07
Project: Research
Zukunftsfähige Bildung für ErzieherInnen - Entwicklung, Durchführung und Evaluation eines Modellseminars für MultiplikatorInnen für Umweltbildung im Kindergarten in der ErzieherInnenausbildung
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic) & Schubert, S. (Project staff)
01.03.99 → 01.02.00
Project: Research
Zukunftsfähige Umweltbildung in der Lehrerbildung: Forschungsstand, Defizite und Notwendigkeiten
Godemann, J. (Project manager, academic), Michelsen, G. (Project manager, academic) & Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.98 → 31.12.03
Project: Research
2030+: Zukunftsstadt Lüneburg 2030+
Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Vilsmaier, U. (Project manager, academic), Luthardt, P. (Coordination) & Prien-Ribcke, S. (Partner)
23.11.15 → 31.03.18
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Zukunftsstadt Lüneburg 2030+: Ein urbanes Reallabor für die lokale Umsetzung der Sustainable Development Goals - Teilvorhaben: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.20 → 31.03.24
Project: Transfer (R&D project)