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. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Grundschule : Implementationschancen aus der Perspektive Partizipation

    Kurrat, A., 2010, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. 207 p. (Umweltkommunikation; vol. 6)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  2. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in der vorschulischen Bildung

    Adomßent, M. & Rieckmann, M., 2006, 25 Jahre Naturschutzakademie: 1981 - 2006: Zukunft durch Naturschutz. Strohschneider, R. (ed.). Schneverdingen: Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz, Vol. 1. p. 30-32 3 p. (Mitteilungen der Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz; vol. 17, no. 1).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in Deutschland: vom Projekt zur Struktur?

    Stoltenberg, U. & Fischer, D., 2018, Perspektive wechseln. : Jahrbuch Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Wien: FORUM Umweltbildung im Umweltdachverband, p. 76–89

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in Kindergärten

    Stoltenberg, U., 11.2005, Lüneburg: Institut für Umweltkommunikation der Universität Lüneburg, 46 p. (INFU-DISKUSSIONSBEITRÄGE; no. 27/05).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  5. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung und das eigene Leben

    Stoltenberg, U., 2007, Der (Sach-)Unterricht und das eigene Leben. Schomaker, C. & Stockmann, R. (eds.). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, p. 201-212 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Werteorientierung – Nachhaltigkeit als Bildungsziel

    Stoltenberg, U., 2009, In: Kinderzeit. 4, p. 22-25 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  7. Published

    Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Michelsen, G., 10.2015, Menschenrechte, Bildung und Entwicklung - Bestandsaufnahme ihrer Zusammenhänge. Lin Hasenkamp, M.-L. & Brosig, M. (eds.). Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Babara Budrich, p. 169-188 20 p. 10

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Michelsen, G. & Fischer, D., 2015, 1 ed. Wiesbaden: Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. 56 p. (Schriftenreihe Nachhaltigkeit; vol. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsTransfer

  9. Published

    Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Michelsen, G. & Fischer, D., 2016, Handbuch Umweltethik. Ott, K., Dierks, J. & Voget-Kleschin, L. (eds.). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, p. 330-334 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Barth, M., 03.08.2021, Handbuch Transdisziplinäre Didaktik. Schmohl, T. & Philipp, T. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 35-44 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review