Fit4Future Summer School 2025 - From Circular Economy to Circular SocietyA blended learning course on what you can learn today for the challenges of tomorrow
How can we move beyond a wasteful, linear economy towards a truly circular society? How do social dynamics shape economic transformation? And what does it take to build circular practices that go beyond mere technological fixes and ecological modernisation logics?
Join our blended learning Summer SchoolFrom Circular Economy to Circular Society and explore these pressing questions with leading experts and like-minded peers. Starting with online content and two key lectures by Professor Melanie Jaeger-Erben.
Research and learning at the interface of environment, society and technology
The department researches and teaches on the multiple interactions of technological and social development and their impact on the environment, as well as the influence of a changing environment on society.
Our projects are inter- and transdisciplinary: We integrate scientific knowledge from different disciplines as well as experiential knowledge from the lifeworlds and practical fields of various social actors.
In doing so, we generate three forms of knowledge:
- System knowledge - on the genesis and character of complex socio-ecological problems.
- Target knowledge - on the socially desirable as well as intrageneratinally and intergenerationally equitable development goals
- Transformation knowledge - on the approaches to solutions and transformation paths towards sustainability.
We are open to requests for project work, bachelor's and master's theses as well as PhD topics from students and young researchers!