The Chair is dedicated to political science research on sustainable development in the Global North and South. Empirically, we deal with climate policies as well as, for example, agricultural, forest and water policies in a globalized and increasingly digitalized world.

Current Project

Tandem of specialized science and didactics

• Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch
• Research Team: Dr. Albert Denk
• Duration: 01/24 - 09/2025
• Funding: Special program to increase the number of graduates from teacher training courses and to improve teacher training (State of Berlin)
• Cooperation partners: Center for Political Didactics and Political Education (Prof. Dr. Sabine Achour)
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Transdisciplinary research on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Germany (TRANSENS)

• Project lead: PD Dr. Achim Brunnengräber
• Period: 01/10/2019 — 30/09/2024
• Funding: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and Volkswagen Foundation
• Cooperation partners: TU Clausthal mit Institut für Endlagerforschung und Lehrstuhl für Deponietechnik und Geomechanikqrisicare GmbH Zürich; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel mit Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Ethik der Umwelt und Institut für Informatik/Web Science; Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung und Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse; LU Hannover mit Institut für Werkstoffkunde, Institut für Radioökologie und Strahlenschutz; ETH Zürich, Transdisziplinaritäts-Laboratorium des Departments Umweltsystemwissenschaften; Öko-Institut e.V. - Institut für angewandte Ökologie; TU Berlin, Fachgebiet Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturpolitik; TU Braunschweig mit Institut für Baustoffe, Massivbau und Brandschutz und Institut für Grundbau und Bodenmechanik; Universität Kassel, Fachgebiet Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
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Completed projects

Climate and energy crisis: The power of municipalities (Krisma)

• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch
• Porject period: 01/03/2023-31/10/2023
• Funding: Spotlight
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Bio-economic power in global supply chains: Approaches, impacts and perspectives on certification and due diligence for biogenic mass raw materials (Bio-Power)

• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch (University of Freiburg and University of Erfurt)
• Project period: 2017 - 2019
• Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Cooperation partners: Öko-Institut e.V.
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Role and responsibility of external actors in environmental and resource conflicts

• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch (University of Freiburg)
• Project period: 2015 - 2016
• Funding: MWK (Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Wuerttemberg)
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Blood Consumption – Armed conflicts resulting from environmental burden shifting

• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch (University of Freiburg)
• Project period: 2014-2015
• Funding: Research Innovation Fund of the University of Freiburg

GETIDOS (Getting things done sustainably): Theory, empirical basis and potential of social entrepreneurship for sustainable development

• Deputy project lead: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch (University of Greifswald)
• Project period: 2008-2013
• Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Cooperation partner: Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung: IÖW
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