How can Higher Education Institutions (HEI) contribute to a sustainable development in the field of governance, sustainability reporting, teaching, research, operations and transfer? Which joint understanding of sustainability and transformation might be developed?
These questions amongst others are focal points of the project "Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions: develop - network - report" (HOCHN). Project funding runs from November 2016 until end of October 2018 and is granted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Eleven German HEI are collaboration partners. HOCHN as an open network seeks further HEI engaged in the topic of sustainable development of their organisations and beyond. Get more information
HOCHN-Video The project HOCHN presented by its participants (taken at the first practice research session in Bremen 2017)
From May 28th to June 1st of 2018 the Zittau / Görlitz University hosted the Baltic University Program (BUP) Students Conference „Innovation for Sustainability: Energy and Resource Efficiency in Production and Transportation“. 80 students from 14 countries participated.
As part of the event, theoretical and practical...
The annual German Action Days for Sustainability (DAN) have been taking place regularly since 2012 at the end of May / beginning of June. They were launched by the Sustainable Development Council on the occasion of the United Nations World Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20). The goal is to make sustainability...
On May 15, 2018, the members of the field of action "Sustainability Reporting" in the the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)-funded project "Sustainability at Universities: Developing - Networking - Reporting (HOCH-N)" together with the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) presented the adopted...
Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit 2017 - HSDS
The first "Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit" (HSDS) took place at the Universität Hamburg from September 26 - 29, 2017. The program featured workshops, interactive sessions and innovative, engaging methods focusing on "Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions". Topics included: Governance, Reporting, Education for Sustainable Development, Campus and Urban Planning and Student Engagement. This interdisciplinary congress brought together the German HOCH-N project (Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions), the COPERNICUS Alliance and the European Postgraduate Sustainable Development Symposium as well as many other engaged persons in the field of sustainable development. Get insights via the HSDS Liveblog!
