Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

In the professorship, we address three main challenges for the fulfilment of this aspiration:

  • Consolidate the epistemological and methodological foundations of transdisciplinary sustainability research.
  • Enhance research at the science/society interface that has both scientific and societal relevance.
  • Enable students, researchers and societal actors to contribute to societal transformation with local and global impact.

We are rooted/embedded in the Faculty of  Sustainability and collaborate with different institutes at Leuphana and research institutions from around the world as well as with different societal actors and institutions from the private and public sector in Lueneburg and beyond. 

We creatively combine conceptual and empirical research with the development of new formats and environments.

Topics

Im Bereich der Forschung liegt der Schwerpunkt von Dissertationen und Drittmittelprojekten im Bereich der Wirtschaftsethik im Zeichen der Globalisierung, in der Staatsphilosophie sowie in aktuellen Fragen der Medizinethik.

Auch hier ist der transdisziplinär verstandene Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff das Band, welches den Umgang mit ethischen Dilemmata in verschiedenen Wissenschafts- und Lebensbereichen miteinander verbindet.

Besonderes Gewicht wird problemorientierten Lernprozessen mit intensivem, wechselseitigem Austausch zwischen Wissenschaftlern/-innen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen sowie relevanten gesellschaftlichen Akteuren beigemessen. Ethik wird in diesem Kontext als eine Begleitwissenschaft verstanden, der eine Schlüsselrolle in inter- und transdisziplinärer Forschung zu Themen der nachhaltigen Entwicklung zukommt.

  1. 2017
  2. Amplifying the Impact of Local Inititatives in Sustainability Transformations - A pragmatic Typology

    David Lam (Speaker), Berta Martín-López (Coauthor), Arnim Wiek (Coauthor), Elena M. Bennett (Coauthor), Niki Frantzeskaki (Coauthor) & Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Coauthor)

    2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Transfer

  3. Creating pathways for transformation through amplifying approaches: a case-study from Southern Transylvania

    Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Speaker), David Lam (Speaker), Daniela Peukert (Speaker) & Daniel J. Lang (Speaker)

    2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  4. World Economic Forum 2017

    Beatrice John (Speaker), Guido Caniglia (Speaker), Bellina Leonie (Speaker), Daniel J. Lang (Speaker) & M.D. Laubichler (Speaker)

    17.01.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. ‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘

    Jeremias Herberg (presenter), Oliver Leistert (Coauthor), Esther Maria Meyer (Coauthor), Gregor Schmieg (Coauthor), Isabell Schrickel (Coauthor), Guido Caniglia (Coauthor), Manfred Laubichler (Coauthor), Erich Hörl (Coauthor), Daniel J. Lang (Coauthor) & Ulrike Vilsmaier (Coauthor)

    23.01.201724.01.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  6. Key competencies in sustainability- Application in sustainable entrepreneurship

    Daniel J. Lang (Reviewer)

    15.03.2017

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantEducation

  7. Nekane Castillo-Eguskitza

    Berta Martín-López (Host)

    05.201708.2017

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  8. Co-Production of Knowledge

    Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Cristina Apetrei (Moderator), Jörn Fischer (Speaker) & Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker)

    05.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  9. The journey to Balance Brings Beauty

    Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker), David Lam (Speaker), Cristina Apetrei (Participant) & Elizabeth Clarke (Speaker)

    07.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  10. International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) 2017

    Annika Weiser (Organiser)

    25.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  11. The global sustainability agenda in urban planning - Insights from community visioning

    Annika Weiser (presenter)

    28.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research