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. Guest lectures
  2. Räume generativer Bildung

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    02.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Räume transdisziplinären Lehrens und Forschens schaffen

    Ulrike Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    31.07.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Räume und Orte für transdisziplinäre Forschung schaffen

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    30.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Stadt Forscht: Allianzen für Nachhaltige Entwicklung

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Lecturer)

    23.06.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Transdisciplinary approaches to understanding societal change

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    07.02.201609.02.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Transdisziplinäre Forschung: Diversität und Differenz

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    26.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. Transdisziplinäre Konstitution von Forschungsfeldern

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    02.02.201303.02.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Ultras: Jugendliche Fußballfans

    Martin Winands (Speaker)

    16.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. University and education – how to teach sustainability and change?

    David Lam (Lecturer)

    06.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  11. 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

  12. Wissen aus der Perspektive transdisziplinärer Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    21.04.201622.04.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  13. External workshops, courses, seminars
  14. 10th ITdNet Meeting - 2013

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Participant)

    11.04.2013

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

  15. 1st Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation - i2S 2013

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    09.09.201311.09.2013

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

  16. 2nd CCES Winter School „Science Meets Practice“ 2012

    Lotte Marie Lutz (Participant)

    01.201202.2012

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

  17. 4th Global TraPs Workshop "Defining Case Studies – Setting Priorities”

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    16.03.201218.03.2012

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

  18. Case-based Mutual Learning Session to Strengthen Familiy Farming in Colombia

    Ulli Vilsmaier (Speaker)

    31.03.201601.04.2016

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

  19. 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

  20. 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