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.

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  1. Go-Chains: Research Consortium ‘Sustainability governance of global value chains’

    Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Lenschow, A. (Project manager, academic), Bülow, F. (Coordination), Ehbauer, B. (Project staff), Makris, J. (Project staff), Bäumler, J. (Project manager, academic), Schüßler, E. (Project manager, academic), Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Teuteberg, F. (Project manager, academic), Schall, A. (Project manager, academic), Franz, M. (Project manager, academic), Busse, C. (Project manager, academic), Lay, J. (Project manager, academic), Jost, H. (Project staff), Evers, K. (Project staff), Große, N. (Project staff), Bongert, F. J. (Project staff), Pohurskyy, S. (Project staff), Kamphues, F. (Project staff), Verfürth, P. (Project staff), Dahiya, S. (Project staff), Zuo, J. (Project staff), Steglich, F. (Project staff) & Raval, S. S. (Project staff)

    01.08.2431.07.28

    Project: Research

  2. Resonanztheorie in der Nachhaltigkeit

    Gehlen, Y. (Project staff) & Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    01.01.1931.12.20

    Project: Dissertation project

  3. 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)

    German Research Foundation

    01.05.1431.08.19

    Project: Research

  4. Ressourcenpolitik und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Globalisierung

    Hofmeister, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bauhardt, C. (Partner)

    01.04.1031.03.13

    Project: Research

  5. INNIG: Risk Culture: Communication and Representation of Risks Considering as Example Extreme Floods

    Heinrichs, H. (Project manager, academic) & Grunenberg, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.0531.12.06

    Project: Research

  6. 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)

    15.11.1321.11.17

    Project: Dissertation project

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  1. Alphabetische Strategie
  2. Derridas Doppelzüngigkeit. Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Schlangenwendungen
  3. Leadership for Learning: Wie können Schulleitungen professionell Feedback geben?
  4. Chancen und Risiken im Kontext von Migration und Adoleszenz
  5. Atomsteuer ist rechtmäßig und richtig
  6. Contribution of Pollinator-Mediated Crops to Nutrients in the Human Food Supply
  7. Umgang mit Diversität und Heterogenität im Chemieunterricht
  8. Mathematical Literacy von Erwachsenen
  9. Geschäftsmodelle der Banken im Wandel
  10. Responses of herbivory and pollinators to grassland management and plant diversity
  11. Emotionen und politisches Lernen
  12. Untergrundbewußtsein
  13. Aufklärung, Beteiligung und Kritik
  14. Zum Kollisionsrecht der Plattformverträge am Beispiel Zimmervermittlung
  15. Von der Herrschaft der Technik zum Parlament der Dinge
  16. Führt die Neuordnung der Berufsaufsicht und externen Qualitätskontrolle der Wirtschaftsprüfer nach dem APAReG zu einer erhöhten Prüfungsqualität?
  17. High trees increase sunflower seed predation by birds in an agricultural landscape of Israel
  18. Quelques considérations sur la fonction et la théorie du coup d'Ètat
  19. Cross-country determinants of institutional investors’ investment horizons
  20. German nuclear phase-out policy
  21. Der Traum vom „besseren“ Menschen
  22. Schulinspektion - Fluch und Segen externer Evaluation
  23. Direkte Demokratie in Europa
  24. The efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy in the outpatient treatment of major depression
  25. Potential exposure of German consumers to engineered nanoparticles in cosmetics and personal care products
  26. Settingbasierte Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention in Deutschland
  27. Aufgaben- und Rollenpluralität des beruflichen Bildungspersonals
  28. Grenzüberschreitung und Integration
  29. Die Haftung der Dritten Gewalt - Haftung als Baustein einer judicial accountability
  30. Fremdbestimmung des gewerkschaftlichen Streikrechts durch Kirchen – verfassungswidrig?
  31. Ausgefüllt, ausgewertet und abgelegt?
  32. Zum Begriff der Bildungsnetzwerke
  33. "Das ist einfach nur unprofessionell"
  34. Politische Bildung - Eine Bestandsaufnahme