HOCH-N - Joint project for sustainability in higher education institutions
The aim of the joint project HOCH-N is to promote sustainable development at institutions of higher education in Germany. A central question is, what the contributions are, that institutions of higher educatoin, such as universities, can make. As societal actors, institutions of higher education bear a great responsibility in educating future generations. The institutionalization of sustainability at institutions of higher education is of a multidimensional nature, it is to be integrated in several fields of action on an inter-, intra- and transdisciplinary level.
Since November 2016, eleven german institutions of higher Education have been working together on meeting the multidimensional challenges of sustainable development in higher education for HOCH-N.
The Chair of Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting at the TU Dresden works together with the Hochschule Zittau/Görtlitz (HSZG) in the field of sustainable perspectives in operations in higher educaion.
Core tasks of this field of action are: procurement, operations, disposal, resource management, mobility, diversity, marketing, event management as well as the controlling of respective activities.
The aim is to display relevant core aspects of sustainable action and to make them accessible to other institutions of higher education. For this, the TU Dresden works together with the HSZG on developing guidelines, showing the relevant topics of sustainable operations in higher education. Further, the identification of drivers and barries of a sustainable development is equally important.
These results of the field operations eventually - together with the results from the fields research, teaching, governance, tranfer and reporting - enter a general framework. It is the aim of HOCH-N, to give practice-oriented recommendations for action for the implementation of the German Sustainability Code (Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex (DNK)) and therefore to offer guidance for other institutions of higher education.
The project coordination of the joing project is managed by the "Kompetenzzentrum Nachhaltige Universität (KNU)" at the Universität Hamburg. HOCH-N carries forward successfully completed research, such as „Forschung für nachhaltige Entwicklung“ (FONA) or the initiative "Nachhaltigkeit in der Wissenschaft" (SISI) of the BMBF.
Website
https://www.hochn.uni-hamburg.de/
Supervision
- Frau Prof. Dr. Günther
Researchers
- Dr. Anne-Karen Hüske
- Nicolas Roos
Project partners
- Universität Hamburg
- Universität Bremen
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Universität Tübingen
- Universität Vechta
- Hochschule Zittau-Görlitz
Term
11/2016 to 10/2020
Financing
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- FONA - Forschung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung des BMBF
Presentations
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Hueske, A.-K., Guenther, E., 2017. What hampers and what fosters sustainable operations in higher education? A systematic review of barriers and drivers. Presentation at the Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit, 26-29th September 2017, Hamburg [Germany].
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Roos, N., Guenther, E., Heinicke, X., Guenther, T. 2017. How can Management Control Systems contribute to implementing institutional sustainability strategies? The case of Higher Education institutions. Presentation at the Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit, 26-29th September 2017, Hamburg [Germany].
Poster presentations
- Roos, N., Hüske, A.-K., Guenther, E. 2017. HOCH-N Nachhaltiger Betrieb an Hochschulen. Posterpräsentation im Rahmen des Hamburg Sustainable Development Summit, 26-29th September 2017, Hamburg [Germany]