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Sustainable University – Sustainable Development in the context of university remits:

  • Duration: Jul 2004 – Dec 2007
  • Target groups: undergraduate students, administrative and scientific staff at Lüneburg University, national and international academics
  • Geographical coverage for partners: local, regional and international
  • Intended use of results: contribute to a science-based understanding how a higher education institution’s organisational change towards sustainable teaching and research can be supported; sustainability impact assessment of a higher education institution; transfer of knowledge;

On 11 July 2008, the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication has been awarded for the project ‘Sustainable university: sustainable development in the context of university tasks’ by the ‘Altner Combecher Foundation for Ecology and Peace’ of the Stifterverband for the German science system. The prize money (8.000 €) is used for the benefit of students from Latin America, spending a guest semester at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Online resources that describe the project:

Indicators for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

  • Duration: Apr 2008 – Feb 2010
  • Target group: higher education and school sector
  • Geographical coverage: European (Austria, Switzerland, Germany)
  • Intended use of results: The goal of our research project is the development of a set of indicators to enable gathering information regarding the development of ESD activities and the conditions under which ESD is practiced. The indicator set is being developed in an expert consultation process and will be examined regarding its relevance and practicability via case studies with selected ESD participants, who hold various positions within the formal education system. The indicator study also contributes to answering current questions of transfer research.

Evaluation of Measures of the National Action Plan and awarded projects within the UN-Decade on ESD in Germany (TRANS300))

  • Duration: Sept 2007 – Jan 2010
  • Target group: all formal education sectors, non-formal and informal education
  • Geographical coverage: national
  • Intended use of results: The project analyses possible contributions of the UN DESD in Germany, focusing on measures and projects and their potential for distributing, anchoring and stabilising ESD in the long run.

Educational Institutions and Sustainable Consumption - BINK (German: Bildungsinstitutionen und Nachhaltiger Konsum)

  • Duration: Jun 2008 – May 2011
  • Target group: institutions of higher education and schools
  • Geographical coverage: national
  • Intended use of results: How can educational institutions become places in which youths and young adults are offered a chance to reflect their own patterns of consumption and to try out sustainable consumer behaviour? Scholars and teachers cooperate in the project to find answers of practical relevance to these questions. By way of coordinated development measures in six participating educational institutions, a culture of sustainable consumption is to come into being within three years; this is intended to raise consumer awareness in young people and make sustainable consumption possible. Food, mobility and energy will be especially considered as exemplary fields of sustainable consumption.

Geoinformatics breaking new ground - Development of a study program "Environmental communication and nature protection" for students of Geoinformatics at Czech Technical University in Prague

  • Duration: Jan 2008 – Dec 2010 
  • Target group: undergraduate students; teaching staff
  • Geographical coverage: European (Czech Republic, Germany)
  • Intended use of results: Development and testing of a project-oriented contribution to the Master course curriculum and realisation of study trips for Czech participants to Germany in order to initiate expertise in communication methodologies with regard to nature protection. In the long run, this new field of activity shall be tailored to fit into already existing course offers at Czech TU in Prague - be it as a new area of specialisation or as a module of continuing education.
26.11.2009, infu