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. 2016
  2. Von Inter- zu Transdisziplinarität – Wissenschaft im Umbruch

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    15.04.2016

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

  3. The Global Classroom Curriculum - Virtual and Real in the University of the Anthropocene

    Beatrice John (Speaker)

    18.04.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Wissen aus der Perspektive transdisziplinärer Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    21.04.201622.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. University of Vienna

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Visiting researcher)

    17.05.201617.06.2016

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  6. Komplexe Systeme transformieren II - Kooperation mit der Praxis (Nachhaltiger Konsum)

    Matthias Bergmann (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)

    23.05.201631.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  7. Td Summer School 2016

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    29.08.201606.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. Governance scenarios for ecological and social goals in agricultural landscapes

    Tamara Schaal (presenter)

    30.08.201602.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  9. Transformative Research and Development in Urban and Regional Environments

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    01.09.201603.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Establishing real-life laboratories: a transdisciplinary approach.

    Philip Bernert (presenter)

    06.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. The Sustainability of Local Living Economies. Exploratory evaluative transition research using Rough Set Analysis.

    Philip Bernert (presenter)

    06.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  12. What could university look like in the 21st Century. The Global Classroom Curriculum

    Beatrice John (Oral presentation)

    14.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. Co-Production of Tools and Strategies to Upscale the Local Model of the Viscri Association by Involving a Policy Expert

    Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker), Daniela Peukert (Participant), David Lam (Organiser) & Jörn Fischer (Organiser)

    20.09.2016

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

  14. How could this success model of the Agro-Eco-Viscri farming association (experience and knowledge) could be consolidated and transferred/adapted to Alma Vii?

    Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker), Jörn Fischer (Organiser), Daniela Peukert (Speaker) & David Lam (Organiser)

    21.09.2016

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

  15. Methoden der (Kultur-)Landschaftsforschung

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    21.09.201623.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Problem Framing Workshop with Local NGOs

    Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Daniela Peukert (Participant), Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker), Jörn Fischer (Organiser) & David Lam (Participant)

    22.09.2016

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

  17. Transdisziplinäre Forschung: Diversität und Differenz

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    26.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  18. Die Zukunft gestalten - Transdisziplinäre Projektarbeit

    Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker) & Judith Kahle (Speaker)

    10.201603.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  19. Qualitätskritieren und Wirkungen von nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung

    Daniel J. Lang (Speaker), Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker) & David Lam (Speaker)

    07.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Gender und Diversity: Welche Rolle spielt Vielfalt in der transdisziplinären Nachhaltigkeitsforschung?

    Judith Kahle (Speaker) & Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker)

    01.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  21. Corporate Responsibility Reporting

    David Lam (Lecturer)

    18.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation