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.

  1. Combining material flow analysis and actor analysis to characterise the development of energy regions in Austria.

    M. Hecher (Speaker), Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker) & Claudia R. Binder (Speaker)

    26.09.201228.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modeling - 2013

    Lotte Marie Lutz (Participant)

    10.04.201311.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Conference on Transdisciplinary Research and Modelling - 2013

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Chair)

    10.04.201311.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Conference Transdisciplinary Intercultural Ecological Research for Sustainability - TIERS 2012

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    08.06.201210.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Corporate Responsibility Reporting

    David Lam (Lecturer)

    18.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  8. 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

  9. Creating transdisciplinary research spaces for sustainable development

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Lecturer)

    06.05.201508.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Creating transdisciplinary research spaces for sustainable development

    Ulli Vismaier (Speaker), Moritz Engbers (Coauthor) & Vera Brandner (Coauthor)

    06.05.201508.05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Crossing boundaries in transdisciplinary sustainability research

    Ulrike Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    13.06.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  12. Das Begleitprogramm Gender und Diversity für Studentische Forschungsteams, die in Lehrveranstaltungen forschend lernen

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    21.10.201523.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. Die Einbeziehung von ‚stakeholdern’ in den Forschungsprozess - Implikationen und Perspektiven

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    11.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. Die Zukunft gestalten - Transdisziplinäre Projektarbeit

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

    10.201603.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  15. Does transdisciplinarity improve academic and societal research outcomes? Empirical results from a large-N empirical study

    Stephanie Verena Jahn (Speaker), Judith Kahle (Speaker), Jens Newig (Panel participant), Matthias Bergmann (Panel participant) & Daniel J. Lang (Panel participant)

    14.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Ecosystems and People (Journal)

    Berta Martín-López (Editor-in-Chief)

    11.201811.2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

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

    Philip Bernert (presenter)

    06.09.201609.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research