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A Model for Sustainable Transformation

Sustainability Report for the Period 2022–2023

Leuphana University sets ambitious goals—and achieves them time and again. For two decades, the university has steadfastly pursued the path of sustainability. Moreover, in 2023, Leuphana was honoured with the German Sustainability Award. With our 2022–23 Sustainability Report, we invite you to join us in this exciting journey. Discover innovative study programmes, pioneering research projects, and exemplary initiatives undertaken by all members of our university community. 

We truly live and breathe sustainability - come and join us

Our understanding of sustainability

Leuphana's understanding of sustainability is based on the Brundtland definition:

  • Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without risking that future generations will not be able to meet their own needs.

  • In essence, sustainable development is a process of change in which the use of resources, the destination of investments, the direction of technological development, and institutional change harmonize to increase the present and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

UN World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) from 1987.

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The university embraces sustainability as a whole institution approach. These internal and external issues are relevant to the university's sustainability.

Networks

  • Copernicus Alliance (European Network on Higher Education for Sustainable Development)
  • International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)
  • UN-Initiative „Principles for Responsible Management Education“ (UnPrme)
  • Global Consortium Sustainability Outcome (GCSO)
  • Sustainability Network of Universities in Lower Saxony (HochNiNa)
  • Weltweites Netzwerk der Yunus Centres for Social Business (YCSB)
  • Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation (CGSC)
  • Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning (ISDL)
  • Sustainability at Universities (HOCH-N)
  • Internal Network Gender and Diversity Research
  • Network Sustainability – Libraries at universities
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Coordination, institutionalization, and promotion of corporate sustainability.

About the Eighth Sustainability Report 2024

Leuphana University Lüneburg implements sustainability as an institution-wide approach (Whole Institution Approach), where research, education, societal engagement, and campus operations influence one another.
The eighth Sustainability Report documents the progress of the sustainable university during 2022 and 2023. Content and data are collected from individual units and consolidated by the Sustainability Office.

  • Reporting Period:   2022 and 2023

  • Editorial Deadline: April 2024