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.
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Leuphana Faculty Club
Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)
22.05.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Leveraging a sustainable future through relationships
Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), David Lam (Organiser), Daniel Johannes Lang (Organiser), Jörn Fischer (Organiser) & Cristina Apetrei (Moderator)
09.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Leveraging a sustainable future through relationships II
Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Cristina Apetrei (Organiser), Jörn Fischer (Organiser), David Lam (Speaker) & Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker)
27.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Methoden einer nomadischen Wissenschaft I - 2019
Ulli Vilsmaier (Organiser), Katharina Schmitt (Organiser), Jenny Michel (Organiser) & Kati Rillich (Organiser)
01.02.2019 → 03.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Netzwerktreffen Studium Generale Nord - 2013
Ulli Vilsmaier (Moderator)
31.01.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Parks of the Future – Protected Areas in Europe Challenging Issues of Societal Transformation
Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)
26.02.2014 → 27.02.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Problem Framing Workshop with Local NGOs
Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu (Organiser), Daniela Peukert (Participant), Daniel Johannes Lang (Speaker), Jörn Fischer (Organiser) & David Lam (Participant)
22.09.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
ProDoc Workshop VIII - 2013
Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)
04.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Projekt ‚Demokratie leben’ der Hansestadt Lüneburg/Stadtjugendring - 2015
Ulli Vilsmaier (Moderator)
27.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Research Development Workshop for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research - RIHN 2013
Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)
15.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research