Coordination Center of Sustainable Development

Coordination Center for Sustainable Development

The Coordination Center for Sustainable Development is a cross-faculty, academic institution of NGU for faculty, staff, students, and anyone else interested in sustainable development. Our goal is to raise awareness of and promote responsibility for sustainable development within the areas of economics, ecology and sociology, both inside and outside of the university. Our interdisciplinary team allows us to take part in the current discourse surrounding these three disciplines of sustainability as well as to identify the relevant themes that cut across each subject.

Key Activities

Coordination
Teaching for Sustainable Development
Research

The CCSD is the institution responsible for coordinating NGU's internal affairs regarding Sustainable Development across departments and disciplines.

We also offer NGU's annual Award for Sustainability.

Currently, we are designing an online exchange. This platform will provide essential information about sustainable development.

The CCSD can provide support for enhancing the NGU’s concept of integrating education for sustainable development (ESD) in academic teaching. We integrate ESD in our own courses and we support student groups that conduct research projects with sustainability-related topics. We also offer summer courses not only characterized by a broad range of topics, but also by a wide variety of methods. For some events, we cooperate with external partners. Our events are aimed not only at NGU students, but also students from other universities, as well as other target groups. With our educational work for sustainable development and in line with the UN Decade of ESD (2005-2014) and the UNESCO Global Action Programme and its national implementation, we want to expand the inventory of systems and values knowledge for students about sustainability and motivate them to participate actively in the discourse surrounding ecological, economic and social development processes. Second, our events target the development of transformational and practical knowledge to support the participants in developing skills that enable them to realize change. We are members of the ESD-university network and we’re in the working group “ESD biosphere reserve Swabian Alb”.

We cooperate in research and transfer projects across departments and discipline, and we conduct our own research, all focusing on sustainable development. Interdisciplinary teamwork is crucial for our research: Due to our team’s qualifications we bring together expertise in the three disciplines decisive in sustainability research: economics, ecology and sociology. We focus on application-oriented research that is well-grounded in theory, using as well as combining quantitative and qualitative empirical methods. Interested students have the opportunity to become actively involved in our research questions and in our current research activities. We also provide support for publishing or presenting their results or theses. For an optimal research environment, we work closely together with the MLab - the innovation and Methods Laboratory.

Projects

We conduct research and transfer projects, and we develop educational projects on issues of sustainable development. We are currently planning various new projects.

Publications (in german)

Team

Prof. Dr.

Christian Arndt

christian.arndt@spam.hfwu.de

Studiendekan Zukunftsökonomie, Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Leitung des Zentrums für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (ZNE), Leitung Innovations- und Methodenlabor (Lab), Beauftragter für Nachhaltige Entwicklung

+49 7022 201484

Campus: CI12 106

Marktstr. 16
72622 Nürtingen

Office hours: Mi 14:00-15:30 Uhr (Buchung über neo)

Dipl.-Betr.Wirt (FH)

Andreas Bulling

andreas.bulling@spam.hfwu.de

Teamleiter des Zentrums für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (ZNE)

+49 7022 201482

Campus: CI12 104

Marktstr. 16
72622 Nürtingen

Office hours: Di bis Do: 9.00 - 12.30 Uhr und 14.00 - 16.30 Uhr

Andrea Fuhrer

andrea.fuhrer@spam.hfwu.de

Verwaltungsmitarbeiterin - Zentrum für Nachhaltige Entwicklung

+49 7022 201256

Campus: CI8 001

Hechinger Str. 12
72622 Nürtingen

Office hours: Mo - Do 8 -13.30 Uhr

Dipl.-Ing. (FH)

Ute Kern-Schimmele

ute.kern-schimmele@spam.hfwu.de

Verwaltungsmitarbeiterin ZNE

+49 7022 201486

Campus: CI12 110

Marktstr. 16
72622 Nürtingen

M.Sc.

Christoph Kuck

christoph.kuck@spam.hfwu.de

Raum-/Innovationsmethoden Manager

+49 7022 201280

Campus: CI8 103

Hechinger Straße 12
72622 Nürtingen

Eleni Tzamalouka

eleni.tzamalouka@spam.hfwu.de

Druckerei - Kopierwesen & Skripte

+49 7022 2011001

Campus: CI10 8

Sigmaringer Str. 25
72622 Nürtingen

Dipl. Volkswirt

Michael Wihlenda

michael.wihlenda@spam.hfwu.de

Coach im Bereich "Entrepreneurship and Education" - Zentrum für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (ZNE)

Campus: CI8 110

Hechinger Str. 12
72622 Nürtingen

Advisory Board

The CCSD is assisted by an advisory board. Members are appointed for a term of four years and currently consists of four professors from each of the NGU’s four faculties as well as the managing director of the IAF. The CCSD convenes the advisory board twice a year.

Advisory board:

Prof. Dr.

Brigitte Biermann

brigitte.biermann@spam.hfwu.de

FWR Nachhaltiges Produktmanagement, Stiftungsprofessur gefördert durch die WMF Group

+49 7331 22463

Campus: Pa4 101.1

Parkstraße 4
73312 Geislingen

Office hours: siehe neo

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Robert Gabriel

robert.gabriel@spam.hfwu.de

Professor FBF, Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung

+49 7022 2011059

Campus: CI10 347

Sigmaringer Str. 25
72622 Nürtingen

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Robin Ganser

robin.ganser@spam.hfwu.de

Studiendekan Bachelorstudiengang Stadtplanung, Professor FUGT

+49 7022 201171

Campus: CB1 105

Schelmenwasen 4-8
72622 Nürtingen

Office hours: nach Vereinbarung

Prof. Dr.

Maria Müller-Lindenlauf

maria.mueller-lindenlauf@spam.hfwu.de

Professorin für Agrarökologie

+49 7022 201384

Campus: CI3 410

Neckarsteige 6-10
72622 Nürtingen

Office hours: nach Vereinbarung

Award for Sustainability

Apply now for the NGU's Sustainability Award till 31^st May 2022!

In order to enable sustainable development, it is not enough to gather knowledge. Rather, it is to apply this knowledge in relation to values and norms. An objective of the CCSD is to enable NGU students to make judgments based on the values of sustainable development and to put them into practice. The Coordination Centre for Sustainable Development annually offers the Sustainability Award to outstanding theses (diploma, bachelor or master theses) that take up this challenge and make a practical contribution to sustainable development. The award is valued at 1,000 EUR and is funded by the Winfried Böhler Environmental Foundation.

Further information (in german)

Events

Along with our commitment to academic teaching, we also conduct occasional events both within the university and for the general public.

Our events in german:

Neu im Veranstaltungsarchiv: Dokumentation unseres letzten Herbstworkshops Anfang November zum Thema Flächenverbauch
»Strategien zur Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeit« Vorlesung im Masterstudiengang Umweltschutz (H. Seyfang)
»Regionale Innovationen und globale Nachhaltige Entwicklung« Forschendes Lernen 2016 (Constanze Störk-Biber)
»Innovationen, Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Wirtschaftskrise« Forschendes Lernen 2015 (Prof. Dr. C. Arndt)
Wir bieten Sommerschulen für verschiedene Zielgruppen an, die wir selbst durchführen bzw. an deren Durchführung wir beteiligt sind.

Summer schools

In 2016 we offered three summer courses:

IfS
Nature conservation and sustainability

Our interdisciplinary and intercultural »Innovation for Sustainability Tour« will offer insights into current developments in sustainability to students from Mexico, the United States and of the NGU during visits at various companies in southern Germany. They also get to try out innovation development themselves. Do you study at NGU? Then join us!

Dates 9.-29.09.2016

This coming summer, we are planning to conduct a summer academy for nature conservation and sustainable development in cooperation with the BUNDjugend Baden-Württemberg – right here in the Swabian Alb biosphere reserve. We will offer this summer school to young adults aged 16 till 27.

Dates: 28.8.-2.9.2016