Links & Tips

Here you will find further information on the topics of sustainable research and research for sustainable development. For legal reasons, only some are linked. The other tips help with finding the content on the web.

Sustainability initiatives of the three research organisations

• Sustainability in the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• The Leibniz Association's Sustainability Management Working Group
• Helmholtz Association
  
  

Information on research for sustainable development and sustainable research

• Sustainability in Science (in German): Agenda process in the scope of FONA (Research for Sustainable Development Strategy of the BMBF)
• Responsible Research and Innovation: Key action in Horizon 2020 of the EU
• Nachhaltige Wissenschaft (Sustainable Science): Blog from a German scientists' network
• Ecological Research Network: Network of non-university, non-profit environmental and sustainability research institutes in Germany
• Netzwerk N:  Association of student sustainability initiatives in Germany
  Political positions and initiatives

Political positions and initiatives

• Germany's National Sustainable Development Strategy
• Council for Sustainable Development: Initiated by the Federal Government, it advises on sustainability policy.
• The German Sustainability Code
• Position paper of the German Council of Science and Humanities (in German): Zum wissenschaftspolitischen Diskurs über Große gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen | Position paper (Drs. 4594-15), April 2015
  
  

Initiatives from civil society

• Social platform Forschungswende (Research Transition): Network of environmental, social, and developmental associations and sustainability-oriented scientific institutions