Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Lehrveranstaltungen

Beyond Zukunftsstadt 2030+: The Future of Transdisciplinary Research in Lüneburg (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen

Inhalt: We all have heard about Zukunftsstadt Lüneburg 2030+, but what comes next? How can transdisciplinary research in this city evolve beyond 2030? In this course, we will critically reflect on past experiences and explore future possibilities for transdisciplinary research, using the very transdisciplinary research methods to shape the next steps. Are you ready to navigate between big-picture thinking and concrete action with critical thinking? Do you have a passion for transdisciplinarity and real-world labs? Then let’s dive in and co-create the future of research in Lüneburg!

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science

Biodiversity conservation and local sustainability labels (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Lina Bürgener, Daniel Fischer, Senan Gardiner

Inhalt: ProBioTIC - Promoting Biodiversity through Transdisciplinary Learning Interventions in the Carpathians Biodiversity experts from the Carpathian countries are insufficiently trained on how to address biodiversity with a broader inter- and transdisciplinary perspective Therefore there is a lack of integrated approaches to promote biodiversity and sustainability. Key stakeholders aren't in the same room. Scientists lack the language and skills to engage the public There is mostly lack a shared understanding of the concept and methodology of ESD, hence there are hardly any educational approaches to promote biodiversity at various levels in the region.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science

Climate Resilient Communities in the Caribbean (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Steffen Farny, Viola Hakkarainen

Inhalt: How to foster community impact? What makes a community resilient? Who needs to engage in climate adaptation action? This transdisciplinary community impact research project focuses on the intersection of climate resilience, communities and social innovations. The setting of the project is Grenada, a Small Island State in the Southern Caribbean (Lesser Antilles) in which communities face continuous challenges to adapt to changing climatic conditions and threats to their livelihoods. In their quest to become ‘climate resilient communities’, Islanders in the Caribbean are currently struggling to mitigate and adapt to changing climatic conditions and impactful catastrophes, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and the pandemic. Building on results generated in the previous two years, student teams will focus on co-creating solution-oriented transferable knowledge for a local community living in a marine-protected area. A concrete entrepreneurial training interventions will be implemented with student mentors (on-site) and regional partners, for example the GIZ Team on St.Lucia.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science

Sustainable Food Systems (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Vania Gomes Zuin Zeidler, Lotta Laura Hohrenk-Danzouma, Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 17:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 40.254 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Sustainable food system (SFS) is an approach that aims at delivering food security and nutrition for all people, i.e., a healthier, fairer, more productive and inclusive of marginalized or not-well informed populations, environmentally sustainable and resilient, and able to promote accessible and nutritious diets. These are complex and systemic challenges that require the combination of interconnected actions at the local, national, regional and global levels (FAO, 2018). As known, the crescent pressures from population growth, urbanization, changing consumption and diet patterns (including undernutrition, overweight and obesity), biodiversity loss and climate crises are all contributing factors to the strain on food systems, meaning that an overhaul in our current concepts and practices is needed for our food systems to become sustainable (UN, 2023).

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science

Sustainable urban transformation of a cross-border city - a social-ecological systems approach (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Sarah Gottwald, Pramila Thapa

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 10:15 - 13:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 4.111 Seminarraum

Inhalt: CONTENT: Currently there are two apparently opposing trends regarding national borders: growing nationalism demanding for more border protection or even border closure, and simultaneously very high cross-border mobility. While sometimes treated as rather abstract concepts or pass-through/transition areas within the European Union, cross-border regions are home to almost 40% of Europe’s population. This means, living close to the border or even cross-border is part of their everyday life, and tangible as well as intangible values are attributed to various places along and across the border. A specific case is the double city of Słubice and Frankfurt(Oder) at the Polish-German border. Every day, thousands of people cross the border at the inner-city bridge over the Odra river. Here, abstract border and cross-border debates become very concrete and localized. The city governments aim for a sustainable cross-border city center that integrates the border bridge as the central points in an urban area of a ca. 1km radius, which is the focus of current planning activities. Our course connects directly to these activities. In a participatory process citizen came up with four main topics of interest for future urban development: mobility, urban green, places of encounter, and social activities. Together with the research project Move’n’Sense, based at Leuphana and the University of Life Science in Wroclaw, these key topics have been further explored using a participatory mapping survey. Additionally, this course draws on the activities and results of a previous Master TD project (summer term 24 and winter term 24/25). These entail insights on (1) the relation between cross-border identity and perception of common challenges and conservation intention of the Odra river; (2) more-than human perspectives and diverse value frames; (3) different perspectives for a specific urban planning case; (4) visions for a pedestrian Odra border bridge to foster social cohesion and human-nature interaction. In this course, students will work together with different local practice partners contributing to solve local challenges associated to the above-mentioned topics. PROCESS: Part 1 Definition of research objective and design The objectives of the first part are to gain an overview of all preceding work, form groups according to the students’ individual interests, to develop a basic understanding of project management, and to establish a first contact with local practice partners. At the end of this part, the students are set up in their team, know their (potential) practice partners, have developed fist research questions and/or hypothesis, and have designed their transdisciplinary study. Tentative 3 sessions until end of April. Part 2 Co-creation of knowledge The aim of the second part is to create some solution-oriented and transferable knowledge through cooperative research. The students will apply a method of choice that fits the research questions, their expertise and practice partners’ capacities and needs, and analyze and evaluate data. At the end of this part student groups have gathered data based on sound scientific research methods that responds their research questions and are valuable for practice partners. This part will include an excursion of 2 to 3 days. Tentative 7 sessions (including excursion) until mid June. Part 3 Knowledge re-integration The aim of this part is to interpret your results in cooperation with practice partners and peers to develop a knowledge re-integration strategy. At the end of this part the students have finalized their data analysis and received feedback. Tentative 2 sessions until beginning of July. Part 4 knowledge communication and dissemination The aim of the final part is to develop an artifact (end product or strategy for communication and dissemination) and present this to practice partners and/or local community, and peers. Tentative 2 sessions, until end of lecture time.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Research Project in Sustainability Science