Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

At SETRI, the Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute, we embrace sustainability as a positive vision for a world that is both safe and just. We investigate how these concepts need to be applied within our local contexts to become tangible. We believe that in order to achieve this vision, we require spaces where we can collectively unlearn unsustainability in processes and mechanisms of inner and outer transformations. 

SETRI provides such spaces. It is home to transdisciplinary research and learning that transcends boundaries — be they between different schools of thought, geographies, disciplines and cultures, as well asor between science and society. Our mission is to facilitate transformative and transgressive approaches that enable individuals and collectives to challenge and change norms and structures perpetuating unsustainability in their daily lives. 

Main research areas

Solution-orientated: We embrace exploration, experimentation, and action-oriented research inquiry to focus on integrated solutions rather than singular problems.

Emergent: Based on a critical perspective we integrate diverse forms of knowledge to establish enduring partnerships that extend beyond short-term funding cycles, ensuring long-term impact and community engagement.

Transformative: Through place-based approaches such as real-world labs, we drive and investigate real-world transformation by tackling concrete challenges in distinct settings to learn to scale transformations long term.

Radical: By stimulating novel and unconventional approaches, we seek to inspire innovative perspectives and try to push beyond established knowledge and non-normal sciences.

Inclusive: We empower a diversity of individuals and communities to engage in deliberative processes aimed at values clarification, goal-setting, dialogue, and meaning-making to foster a shared sense of purpose and direction.

  1. "Sustainability and Digitalization - a European perspective"

    Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Trittin-Ulbrich, H. (Partner), Lang, D. J. (Partner) & von Wehrden, H. (Partner)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    01.12.1931.08.22

    Project: Teaching

  2. tdAcademy: Modul Gäste und Fellows

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Grauer, C. (Project staff) & Lam, D. (Project staff)

    Robert-Bosch Foundation

    01.05.2031.05.25

    Project: Research

  3. tdAcademy: Platform for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Grauer, C. (Project staff) & Lam, D. (Project manager, academic)

    Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    01.06.2031.08.23

    Project: Research

  4. ESD for 2030: Lernen für und in resiliente(n) und nachhaltige(n) Kommunen

    Lang, D. J. (Project manager, academic), Bürgener, L. (Coordination) & Drautz, S. (Project staff)

    German Federal Environmental Foundation

    01.01.2131.12.24

    Project: Research

  5. DigiTaL - Teilprojekt 04: Methoden-Wiki

    von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic), Chauhan, N. (Project manager, academic) & Rau, A.-L. (Project manager, academic)

    01.08.2131.12.25

    Project: Teaching

  6. Interdisziplinäre Methoden und Kompetenzen

    von Wehrden, H. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.2431.03.26

    Project: Research

  7. Entwicklungsteam "Reflexionsanlässe im gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Sachunterricht"

    Meyn, J. (Project manager, academic) & Fischer, D. (Project manager, academic)

    01.07.2430.06.25

    Project: Teaching

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  8. Lebenslanges Lernen als Aufgabe der Universität
  9. Medien-Traum-Protokolle
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  11. Interim Orders by the Euroean Court of Human Rights
  12. Evaluation and authorisation of plant protection products within the European Union
  13. Artikel 29 EUV [Standpunkte der Union]
  14. International Trade in Goods
  15. Integrating corporate sustainability assessment, management accounting, control, and reporting
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  17. § 289 Zinseszinsverbot
  18. Transidentität und Sprache
  19. Rettende Geschwister
  20. Ein Studium fürs Leben
  21. Gemeinschaftsrechtlicher Staatshaftungsanspruch, Kausalität
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  23. Ad-hoc-Mitteilung auch über Zwischenschritte eines kursrelevanten Vorgangs als Insider-Information, hier: Ausscheiden des Vorstandsvorsitzenden von Daimler („Geltl“)
  24. Die nächste Wirtschaftsuniversität
  25. De facto anonymised microdata file on income tax statistics 1998
  26. § 292 Haftung bei Herausgabepflicht
  27. E-Mental-Health – am Beispiel von internetbasierten Gesundheitsinterventionen
  28. Get Rid of Your Self: Lu Märten’s Monist Art History, a Mysticism for the Machine Age
  29. Achtsamkeit – woher und warum
  30. Elektronenhirn und verbotene Zone
  31. Verspiegelt
  32. Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik und Inklusion
  33. Red cards
  34. Gesamtbanksteuerung