Scientists of Hamburg's universities are invited to submit project proposals for the 2018 ASA University Cooperation until September 30th 2017. The ASA project is a learning and qualification program dedicated to development education based in Germany and funded by the Federal Ministry for...
HAW Hamburg (cooperation partner of the UHH within the network "Hamburger Hochschulallianz für Nachhaltigkeit") is involved in the organisation of various sustainability symposiums in 2017 and 2018 (see below). More information regarding the registration and submission of papers can be found on...
On September 7th and 8th Universität Hamburg invites to a convention on the topic of sustainable consumption entitled "Sustainable consumption: Information regulation, consumer behaviour, and the rule of law". At this KNU-supported event the following questions will be addressed:
What are the...
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...
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...
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...
On Tuesday June 1st 2017 there will be a public panel dealing with the topic of "Anthropocene Mobilities". The panel discussion is supposed to address the enormous challenges in the areas of global mobility and migration which arise from the processing environmental changes and globalisation...
Hands-on Workshop "Lean for Flourishing Startups – Business Modelling and Testing Lab"
Antony Upward, Flourishing Enterprise Designer from Toronto, and Ondine Hogeboom, Social Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Lean4Flourishing from Montreal, offer a full-day workshop on flourishing business model...
Below you find several recent announcements regarding sustainability in higher education:
Call for Papers: 4th World Symposium on Sustainability at Universities (WSSD-U-2018)The World Symposium on Sustainability at Universities (WSSD-U) series is the world´s leading event on sustainability in...
In 2015, the UN General Assembly approved the „2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development“. However, until now there are no comprehensive publications addressing the SDGs in an integrated way. Therefore, the "Encyclopedia of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming the World We Want" is...
The application for this year´s Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (GESS) in September has opened recently. Students from everywhere in the world are invited to develop innovative and entrepreneurial solutions concerning the topic "Food".
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
The Transatlantic Summer Academy on Sustainability is a three-week course on sustainability and intercultural learning for German and US-American students. The next edition will take place from July 20 to August 9, 2017 in Bremen (and Hamburg), Germany, on the campus of Jacobs University...
The Universität Hamburg Equal Opportunity Fund is designed to promote general projects in the areas of studying, teaching, research, and administration as well as those that aim to dismantle gender discrimination.
The following projects and activities are eligible for funding:
Projects...In order to illustrate how Sustainability Science can help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the many targets of the document "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", the "World Symposium on Sustainability Science: Implementing the UN Sustainable...
Call for contributions to the COPERNICUS Alliance Conference 2016 on Sustainability Transformation of Science Systems, September 14-15th, Vienna.
The goal is to organize this conference under the “Green Meeting” directive of the Austrian Eco Label.
About the conference:
The 2016 COPERNICUS...
The annual meeting of the European COST-Network “New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe” will take place at the UHH from May 12 to 14. The conference offers about 50 speeches from the research field of multilingualism with a focus on discourse and interaction. An own panel presents current...
This students conference has the objective of fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration among Master and Ph.D. students, who are enrolled in humanities programmes at Hamburg University and to stimulate exchange on topics related to sustainability in the humanities. The conference is going to...
The 36. Newsletter/October 2015 of the initiative „Hamburg lernt Nachhaltigkeit“ (HLN)(Hamburg learns about Sustainability) offers exciting news about the initiative and about sustainability in Hamburg.
The journal "The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (IJSHE)“ has a Special issue on "Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education Institutions“.
Abstracts can be submitted until November 15th 2015.
Editors are Prof. Dr. Ralf Isenmann, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Walter Leal...
