Become an Expert in Sustainability

Learn all about our nature, environment and animals so that you can protect them from the effects of climate change! In the experimentally oriented biology course, you can take courses in botany, ecology or zoology, for example. Whether you're studying for a Specialized Bachelor's degree or a teaching degree, with your knowledge of biology you'll be ideally equipped to protect and preserve our environment.

Plastic in the oceans and on everyone's lips: the consequences of plastic waste and microplastics for the earth is one of the questions that the Chemistry department in Osnabrück is working intensively on. For example, you can study Chemistry as a dual-subject Bachelor's degree in Secondary Teacher Education (Gymnasium). A scientific Master's degree in "Nanoscience" could also be an excellent option - it could be your path to developing environmentally friendly materials of the future!

In geography, you deal with how humans shape their environment and how the associated problems can be solved - from major changes such as climate change to concrete changes on the ground in urban planning! Many of the major challenges facing society - environmental pollution, globalization, climate change, migration, sustainability, natural disasters - are topics covered by geography studies.

Education for sustainable development (ESD) plays a fundamental role in the "Textile Design" teacher training course. It deals with the interactions between consumption and production, economy, design and ecology: how can textiles be produced, transported, traded, consumed, worn and recycled sustainably? The exceptionally well-equipped workshops are set up for manual and computer-controlled work, so that you can learn both manual and industrial processes in an exemplary manner.

What happens when our ecosystem is thrown out of balance by problems such as plastic waste, biodiversity loss or man-made climate change? Understanding this requires mathematical skills and a love of programming. Learn to analyze environmental systems on a Bachelor's degree course in order to better understand them and make predictions. You will be able to carry out your own analyses and create environmental simulations on the computer at an early stage.

Why does humanity find it so difficult to protect the climate? What policy measures can promote more sustainable behavior? What could a more sustainable economy look like? Economic understanding is important in order to understand the main causes of environmental crises and to develop solutions. The Sustainability, Behavior and Environmental Policy focus of this Bachelor's degree program sheds light on the role of Business Administration and Economics in the sustainability transformation as well as on obstacles and solutions for sustainable behavior and shows ways in which a transformation towards more sustainability can succeed.