Programme & Data

The updated sustainability program shows that almost all of the 2022 targets have been achieved or are currently being implemented.

The next major step for the university is its next target for 2026:

Further development of the Leuphana University Lüneburg sustainability report in accordance with EU standards (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive – CSRD).

Next goals until 2025

• The university aims to concretize and highlight contributions to societal challenges and the benefits of cooperative research.
• To further develop the region, Leuphana intends to contribute to the systematic support of start-up ideas in the fields of social, sustainable, cultural, and digital entrepreneurship and their implementation.
• In line with its understanding of the “university as an actor in society,” it promotes social development projects.
   

Achievements from 2022 to 2023

• Restructuring and further development of the master's program in Sustainability Sciences.
• As part of the basic teaching in general studies, at least two modules on education for sustainable development will be offered, and the contribution to the competence development of students will be assessed in the context of systematic accompanying research.
• Intensive linking of the transdisciplinary research project “Future City Lüneburg 2030+” with the responsibility module in the Leuphana Semester. In the 2022/23 winter semester, seminars will be offered that will jointly design a content focus on “Future City Lüneburg 2030+” during the conference week.

Gender equality

Next goals until 2025

• The goal is to increase the proportion of female professors to 40% by 2030, the proportion of women in W3 positions from 24% to 35%, and to achieve parity in the appointment of deans, especially in the positions of dean and pro-dean.
• Leuphana enables female researchers in the doctoral and postdoctoral phases of their careers to engage intensively with career development issues. The university pays particular attention to the critical decision-making and career phases of women.

Implementation

• Creation of an overview plan listing all barrier-free entrances and toilets, first-aid and rest rooms, disabled parking spaces, the location of defibrillators, and possible barriers.

Achievements 2022 to 2023

• Leuphana University Lüneburg continues to strive for an increase in the proportion of women in the group of full professors (W2/W3). The proportion of female professors has increased from 31% to 32%. In the group of junior professors (W1), a proportion of at least 50% has been maintained.
• In the university development plan of Leuphana University Lüneburg, diversity, anti-discrimination, accessibility, inclusion, and equal opportunities and gender equality are important criteria for shaping university structures and cultures. An explicit goal of future diversity work is to develop and implement these strategies and approaches.
• The further development of family-friendly university structures and cultures is important for maintaining the attractiveness of Leuphana University Lüneburg as an employer.

Health

Next goals until 2025

• Brochure on places on campus that promote creative meetings and healthy breaks.
• Health Action Day on key topics.

Achievements 2022 to 2023

• The university sports program's “Taktgeber – Biorhythmus in Bewegung” (Pacemaker – Biorhythm in Motion) project aims to teach students to listen to their “inner clock” and tailor their activities accordingly. In this way, they acquire new biorhythm skills, such as exercise, relaxation, eating, and sleeping, in order to bring them into harmony with their everyday student life.

Next goals until 2025

Campus

• Creation of meeting places, reduction of car traffic, implementation of a barrier-free guidance system, planting of trees
• Unsealing of roads and paths
• Survey and evaluation of the campus's quality of life
• Transport concept ‘Leuphana University – Transport – Lüneburg’: Further coordination with the city, reduction of parking spaces, better connection of the campus to public transport
• Promoting carpooling
• Increasing biodiversity on campus by establishing meadows

Climate protection

• Cooperation in the third-party funded project HochNiNa ‘Standardisation, further development and communication of greenhouse gas balances at universities in Lower Saxony’
• Transparent presentation of the climate balance in accordance with the GHG Protocol (Greenhouse Gas Protocol)

10% reduction in energy consumption:

• Energy efficiency measures: Replacement of windows in 12 buildings and replacement of doors in 14 buildings
• Increase in temperature in server rooms
• Information and campaign on the topic of ‘digital waste’

Procurement and waste

• Further training, which also includes sustainable procurement
• Presentation of sustainable procurement and the services already procured sustainably in the administrative network
• Presentation of data on paper and office supplies in the administrative network
• Campaign to avoid takeaway cups from the bakery on campus
• Campaign for sustainable sportswear consumption
• ZWISCHENRAUM: Tidying up and passing on unnecessary office supplies

General

• Development of a sustainability concept for the Media and Information Centre
• Further training course ‘Sustainable Laboratory’

Implementation

• Car-free Campus: Concept for smooth access to the campus for fire engines and ambulances and for reducing traffic on the campus

Achievements 2022 to 2023

• Implementation of the participatory sustainable campus development plan
• Implementation of the forest garden on campus. The forest garden will be continuously developed in seminars.
• Connection to the real-life experiment ‘Colourful is the new green’ of the Future City Lüneburg 2030+. Creation of a concept for a biodiverse area on campus as part of ongoing seminars
• Establishment of a ‘lively learning place’ on campus based on the sustainable concept of the ‘Learning Place Working Group’ in the Lebenswelt Campus project
• Establishment of a climate protection fund for unavoidable business travel by plane and car. Communication to avoid business flights
• Creation of a sustainable concept ‘Green Library’
• Use of electric cargo bikes in building management for the gardening department, the post office, housekeeping and building services to reduce the use of company cars
• Replacement of a vehicle in building management with an electric car
• Establishment of another StadtRAD station on campus and expansion of the range to include electric cargo bikes
• Collection containers for waste paper and plastic in all seminar areas and in the public area of the library