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Portrait of the speaker Heila Lotz-Sisitka

UNESCO Chair Lecture: Heila Lotz-Sisitka on De-individualising Learning

What changes when we understand learning for sustainability as collective rather than individual? On 19 June 2025, we hosted a lecture by Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka from Rhodes University, South Africa, our long-standing partner and collaborator in the UNITWIN Network on Ed

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What Truly Matters: Rethinking Assessment in ESD

In a commentary published in the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, Daniel Fischer (Leuphana University Lüneburg / UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development) together with Jordan King (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Aaron Redman (Arizona State University) argue that learning assessment in ESD is critically underdeveloped — and

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Education for Sustainable Consumption: Beyond Green Shopping

What should Education for Sustainable Consumption aim for, if sustainable consumption is about more than green purchasing? In their entry for the Routledge volume Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future, Ulf Schrader and Daniel Fischer give a short overview of the concept, its history,

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Time for Sustainability: How Students Can (Re-)learn Their Use of Time

Can learning to use one’s time differently be part of Education for Sustainable Development? In a new article in Time & Society, Pascal Frank (Wageningen University & Research), Claire Grauer and Daniel Fischer report on a school intervention from the ReZeitKon project (Time Rebound, Time Wealth and Sustainable Consumption)

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UNESCO Chair Lecture: C. Tyler DesRoches on “My Grudges Against Nudges”

Are nudges a good way to promote sustainable behaviour? We invite you to the next event in our UNESCO Chair Lecture Series, a talk by C. Tyler DesRoches (Arizona State University) titled “My Grudges Against Nudges”. * When: 11 June 2025, 14:30–15:30 CEST * Where: Room C 25.021

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“Universities Must Remain Places for Dialogue”: Interview on the UNESCO Chairs Conference 2024

In the yearbook of the German Commission for UNESCO (in German), Daniel Fischer and Deepika Joon look back on the UNESCO Chairs conference hosted in Lüneburg in 2024.

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Panel Discussion on Promoting Biodiversity in the Carpathians

On May 22, 2025, as part of the ProBioTIC project (Promoting Biodiversity through Transdisciplinary Learning Interventions in the Carpathians), students from Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) and Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany) came together in a hybrid panel discussion to explore challenges and opportunities of one of Europe’s most biologically rich