Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The aim of research and teaching at our institute is to make an active contribution to shaping societal transformation towards sustainability. We work on appropriate scientific and philosophical foundations as well as on ways to include different (civil) societal actors in research processes.

The institute is subdivided into the following four core areas: (i) Sustainability Ethics (ii) Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, (iii) Sustainability Science and (iv) Social Sustainability.

Main research areas

Unsere Forschung deckt ein breites Spektrum an thematischen und methodischen Zugängen ab. Innerhalb der Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit am Schnittpunkt von natur- und sozialwissenschaftlich fokussierter Forschung angesiedelt, ist unsere Arbeit geprägt durch inter- und transdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit - innerhalb der Universität und über ihre Grenzen hinaus.
Im Rahmen dieser Kooperationen arbeiten wir lösungsorientiert und zielen darauf ab, im wechselseitigen Austausch zwischen Wissenschaftlern/-innen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen sowie relevanten gesellschaftlichen Akteuren sozial robustes Wissen zu erzeugen.

Forschungsschwerpunkte und Kernkonzepte

Sustainability Science
Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Nachhaltigkeitsethik

  1. Conferences
  2. Oikos - Theis Workshop

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    26.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Podiumsdiskussion zum Ukraine-Krieg: Keine Kriegspartei und doch im Wirtschaftskrieg

    Kück, T. (Moderator) & Oermann, N. O. (Participant)

    21.04.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Research Development Workshop for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research - RIHN 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    14.11.201315.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference - RGS 2014

    Mildorfová-Leventon, J. (Speaker), Dyer, J. C. (Speaker) & Van Alstine, J. (Speaker)

    26.08.201429.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. ‘Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘

    Herberg, J. (presenter), Leistert, O. (Coauthor), Meyer, E. M. (Coauthor), Schmieg, G. (Coauthor), Schrickel, I. (Coauthor), Caniglia, G. (Coauthor), Laubichler, M. (Coauthor), Hörl, E. (Coauthor), Lang, D. J. (Coauthor) & Vilsmaier, U. (Coauthor)

    23.01.201724.01.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  7. Tag der Politikwissenschaft 2014

    Kahle, J. (Speaker), Jahn, S. V. (Coauthor), Newig, J. (Coauthor), Lang, D. J. (Coauthor) & Bergmann, M. (Coauthor)

    28.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Tagung "Fußball und Fans. Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven" 2012

    Winands, M. (Speaker)

    12.12.201213.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Td Summer School 2013: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    01.09.201310.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  10. Td Summer School 2014: Transdisciplinary Research at the Science

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    01.09.201409.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  11. Td Summer School 2015

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.08.201508.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  12. Td Summer School 2016

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    29.08.201606.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

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

    John, B. (Speaker)

    18.04.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  14. Transformations 2017

    Freeth, R. C. (Participant), Lam, D. (Speaker), Freeth, R. (Speaker), Horcea-Milcu, A. I. (presenter) & Lang, D. J. (Speaker)

    30.08.201701.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  15. Transformative Research and Development in Urban and Regional Environments

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    01.09.201603.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Workshop Transdisziplinäre Wissensproduktion in der Wasserforschung 2012

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    19.04.201220.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Workshop zur Konstituierung des Instituts für transdisziplinäre Sozialwissenschaft der Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe -2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    31.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. World Economic Forum 2017

    John, B. (Speaker), Caniglia, G. (Speaker), Leonie, B. (Speaker), Lang, D. J. (Speaker) & Laubichler, M. D. (Speaker)

    17.01.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. World Students Environmental Summit

    Lam, D. (Organiser)

    20122014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  20. External workshops, courses, seminars
  21. 10th ITdNet Meeting - 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Participant)

    11.04.2013

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

  22. 1st Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation - i2S 2013

    Vilsmaier, U. (Speaker)

    09.09.201311.09.2013

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

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