Themes

Research on the sustainability transformation focuses on climate change, biodiversity loss and the depletion of natural resources in a multidisciplinary and solution-oriented manner. Research topics include citizens’ lifestyles, planetary well-being and health, production and consumption, governance and justice, and cultural change.

Cross-cutting, transdisciplinary themes

• Futures skills and competencies
• Sustainable business and working life
• Leadership and management in societal change
• Cultural transformations and social imagination
• Policies, legal systems and means of regulation
• Ecosystems, planetary health and planetary wellbeing
• Civil society and democratic development

New approaches

• Rethinking the state
• Rethinking the commons
• Rethinking justice
• Rethinking efficiency
• Rethinking business and economy