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.
I4S: Research and Competence Training Network for Sustainability-Driven Innovation
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Hansen, E. G. (Partner) & Wicki, S. (Project staff)
01.01.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Research Consortium ‘Sustainability governance of global value chains’
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Bülow, F. (Project manager, academic) & Ehbauer, B. (Project staff)
01.08.24 → 31.07.28
Project: Research
Resonanztheorie in der Nachhaltigkeit
Gehlen, Y. (Project staff) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)
German Federal Environmental Foundation
01.01.19 → 31.12.20
Project: Dissertation project
Responses of plant performance and functional diversity along a climate and land-use gradient in Mongolia
von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic), Wesche, K. (Project manager, academic) & Römermann, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.14 → 31.08.19
Project: Research
Ressourcenpolitik und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Globalisierung
Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bauhardt, C. (Partner)
01.04.10 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
NAPS: Reuse of a closed waste disposal site on the periphery of an urban area using the example of the Fulgurit
Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.08.07 → 30.11.09
Project: Research
Reversible Reaktionen anorganischer Salze mit Alkoholen zur Wärmespeicherung
Ruck, W. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.07.14 → 30.06.16
Project: Research
INNIG: Risk Culture: Communication and Representation of Risks Considering as Example Extreme Floods
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Grunenberg, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.05 → 31.12.06
Project: Research
Rohstoffgewinnung im Kontext wachsender Nutzungsansprüche an den Untergrund – Anforderungen an die unterrägige Raumordnung und das Bergrecht für einen umwelt- und ressourcenschonenden Bergbau, Lösung von Nutzungskonflikten und Steuerung einer nachhaltigen Nutzung des Untergrunds (Instrumente zur umweltverträglchen Rohstoffgewinnung – INSTRO
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic) & Sanden, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.15 → 30.11.17
Project: Research
RURAGRI-MULTAGRI: Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land use (MULTAGRI). Work package 5: Governance challenges to encourage landscape-scale uptake of appropriate management actions
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Fischer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Klein, A.-M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
29.08.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Rural electrification in the Andean countries: analysis of policies that can accelerate off-grid PV adoption
Feron, S. (Project manager, academic) & Heinrichs, H. (Project staff)
15.11.13 → 21.11.17
Project: Dissertation project
SAFECOAST : SAFECOAST: "The informed society". Analysis and strategy development for risk communication and coastal protection
Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic), Grunenberg, H. (Project staff), Knolle, M. (Project staff) & Lüdecke, G. (Project staff)
01.10.06 → 31.03.08
Project: Research
Schaufenster für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
Stoltenberg, U. (Project manager, academic) & Muraca, B. (Project staff)
01.02.02 → 01.10.03
Project: Research
TM 1.3 C FuE-Projekt 05: Schlüsselfaktor Ressourceneffizienz - ein Prüfsystem für KMU zur Verbesserung der Vollzugsfähigkeit von Umweltgesetzen am Beispiel des neuen Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes (KrWG)
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic), Guerra González, J. (Project staff), Bleuel, I. (Project staff) & Japsen, A. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.04.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Schools’ contributions to mastering the Global Consumption Challenges. Conceptual Clarifications and Empirical Potentials within the framework of Educational Science and Sustainability Science
Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic)
29.09.08 → 26.03.14
Project: Dissertation project
SCHULE INKLUSIVE AUGENMERKKINDER - Die aktive Beziehungsarbeit der Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen als zentraler Baustein für eine erfolgreiche Lern- und Entwicklungsbegleitung von Augenmerkkindern in einer inklusiven Schule
Abels, S. (Project staff)
01.11.12 → 31.10.14
Project: Practical Project
LFB-Labs-digital: Schülerlabore als Ort der Lehrkräftefortbildung in der digitalen Welt (BMBF)
Abels, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.23 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
SchulStark-Feriencamp
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Coordination)
01.01.16 → 15.05.17
Project: Teaching
Schutz von Buchenwäldern in einem System von Prozessschutzgebieten
Härdtle, W. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.08 → 30.11.11
Project: Research
Science Blog der Schreibwerkstatt MINT der Uni Bremen
Rodenhauser, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.17 → 01.10.18
Project: Practical Project
