International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)
Leuphana has been a member of the ISCN since 2015. This international network of universities promotes exchange on the integration of sustainability aspects into research and teaching, as well as experiences with sustainable campus operations.
Copernicus Alliance - European Network on Higher Education for Sustainable Development
COPERNICUS Alliance is a European network of universities and colleges dedicated to transformative learning and change for sustainable development. In close cooperation with its members and in collaboration with strategic stakeholders, the network aims to promote international and European development in education policy and to support institutions on their way to integrate sustainability into their policies, teaching and research. The university joined the Copernicus Alliance in 1997.
UN Initiative Pr(i)me (UnPrme)
Since July 2019, Leuphana University has been a member of the UN initiative "Principles for Responsible Management Education" (UnPrme), which aims to integrate responsibility and sustainability into business degree programmes. Joining the UN initiative is part of the Faculty of Business and Economics' project "Responsible Management Education in Business Administration".
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values (YCSB)
The Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values (YCSB) is an inter- and transdisciplinary centre at Leuphana University Lüneburg. It is part of a network of 82 Yunus Centres around the world inspired and supported by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. The YCSB at Leuphana University was founded in 2019 on the initiative of Prof. Günther Strunk, Dominique Dauster, Manouchehr Shamsrizi and Prof. Markus Reihlen.
Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL)
The Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL) is a central, cross-faculty institution at Leuphana with the aim of researching and supporting transdisciplinary learning processes for sustainable development. ISDL focuses on the South-North dimension of transdisciplinary learning processes in sustainable development and contributes to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The aim is to develop a national and international platform that enables evidence-based research in close cooperation with partners from the Global South and supports the application of the results.
Sustainability Network of Universities in Lower Saxony (HochNiNa)
HochNiNa aims to promote exchange and cooperation between those responsible for sustainability at universities in Lower Saxony and to give them a common voice in order to expand sustainability at the state's universities.
Sustainability Network – Academic Libraries
The Leuphana Library is a member of this network since 2023. Its aim is to pool information on how academic libraries can work more specifically towards climate and resource protection and the 17 sustainability goals. It is part of the Green Library Network.
Internal Network Gender and Diversity Research
The network "Gender and Diversity Research" at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg is a professional, inter- and transdisciplinary as well as science- and university-political network of scientists*.