Transformational Sustainability Science

Transformational Sustainability Science Group

The group advances transformational sustainability science through the following activity domains:

Building theory and particularly methodology of transformational sustainability science
Synthesizing foundational work on transformational sustainability science into accessible formats
Developing sustainability education and training programs
Conducting empirical transformational sustainability research (particularly field experiments)

News

Innovationscampus Sustainability Event

Assessing Student Learning Success in Sustainability Courses and Programs

Join us for an engaging presentation and discussion with Dr. Aaron Redman on assessing the learning success of students in sustainability courses and programs. Participation in person or online. Registration is required.

Food for Thought & Action

How to make transformational sustainability changes happen in times of crises

Dr. Braden Kay & Fletcher Beaudoin discussed with researchers and students how science– and practice collaborations for sustainability can be developed. It was hosted by the Transformational Sustainability Science group and the Humboldt Professorship.

Sustainability Education and Training

Training for enhanced science-practice partnerships

Transdisciplinary Interface Managers (TI-Managers) can provide critical services to manage science-practice collaborations. In Feburary, an international group of experts gathered in Frankfurt to review and advance a training program for TI-Managers.

Team

The Transformational Sustainability Science Group is an interdisciplinary group, with the core team being trained in transformational sustainability science. Members of the TSS Group have contributed to the evolution of sustainability science since its inception in the early 2000s.

Education & Training

The Group designs and delivers programs that equip researchers and practitioners with procedures and skills to co-produce knowledge for sustainability solutions to pressing problems, using pedagogies that are solutions-oriented, competency-based, and project-focused.

Research

Our research activities focus on advancing the theory, practice of transformational sustainability research & education.

Publications

The publications of the Transformational Sustainability Science Group cover three areas: theory and methods for transformational sustainability science; solutions-oriented and competency-based learning in sustainability education; and mechanisms for change, such as crises, as opportunities for sustainability. In each area, we present the literature along an underpinning framework.

Network

The Transformational Sustainability Science Group engages in sustainability education and research collaborations at the University of Freiburg, in the region, and internationally.