Centerfor a Sustainable University

The first "Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit" (HSDS) will take place at the Universität Hamburg from the 26th to the 29th September 2017. The program features workshops, interactive sessions and innovative, engaging methods focusing on "Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions". Topics include: Governance...

The research project "Multilingualism as a Resource of the Sustainable University" has been examining the topic of multilingualism at the University of Hamburg (UHH) since summer 2015. The core issues of the project include the following questions:

The Center for a Sustainable University (KNU) supports students who want to commit themselves to sustainability by implementing specific sustainability-related projects. Therefore it offers the following projects

which aim at facilitating durable changes...

The International Transdisciplinarity Conference (ITD) 2017 takes place from September 11th to 15th and is co-organized by Leuphana University Lüneburg (member of the KNU-coordinated HOCHN project), Germany and the Network for Transdisciplinary Research of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The overall objective of...

Universities can play a key role in attempts to handle climate change.
With this end in mind, the 2nd Symposium "Universities and Climate Change" focussing on "The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects in Fostering Climate Action" is being organised by Manchester Metropolitan University, Queen Mary University of...

After being selected as one of the UNESCO Key Partners of the Global Action Program on Education for a Sustainable Development (ESD) and hosting the Stakeholder Meetings of the UNESCO World Conference on ESD in 2014, Okayama City (Japan) is committed to further advance ESD beyond 2015. With this purpose, Okayama City...