International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE)

IZNE

The International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) is a scientific institution, committed to sustainable development and responsible social action, with its teaching, research and transfer activities firmly grounded on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The institute is practice-oriented and as such aims to initiate or support sustainable reform, innovation and transformation processes.

Our subject fields

To overview site of the subject fields

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Health and Social Protection

Soils and Biomass

Responsible Economy and Natural Resources

Sustainable Technologies and Resource Usage

News

News and press releases of the IZNE

2025-11-24 Delegation Universidad de Antioquia Kolumbien IZNE 2

Five days, one mission: Strengthening German-Colombian cooperation for sustainable energy systems

Philipp Swoboda, H-BRS Alumnus, Gründungsmitglied InPlanet

"Many elements of your meal today come from rocks." Interview with Philipp Swoboda, guest scientist at H-BRS

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International cooperation launched with university in Colombia

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Samer Chaaraoui: Doctoral examination passed with "very good"

Questions on research: Our topics explained in 5 minutes

Fragen zur Forschung mit Katja Bender YouTube Poster

H-BRS

Short video interview on the topic "Health and Social Protection" with Prof. Dr. Katja Bender (english subtitles available)

Fragen zur Forschung mit Martin Hamer YouTube Poster

H-BRS

Short video interview on the topic "Soils and Biomass" with Prof. Dr. Martin Hamer (english subtitles available)

Fragen zur Forschung mit Stefanie Meilinger YouTube Poster

H-BRS

Short video interview on the topic "Sustainable Technologies and Resource Usage" with Prof. Dr. Stefanie Meilinger (english subtitles available)

Projects

Current research projects

DINA – Diversity of insects in nature conservation areas

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Networked Rainland

EcoTwin - digital twin of urban green spaces

EnerSHelf – Energy supply for health care facilities in Ghana

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INTERFACES – Supporting Development Pathways for Sustainable Land Management in Africa

KLUGER TRANSFER – Climate - Environment - Health - Transfer

reTURN - Recycling organic residues and CO2 into fuels

NELIPRO – Next Level Lightweight Production

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ONE HEALTH II – Understanding metropolitan regions holistically

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EnMET – The Energy Meteorology Laboratory

Transformative Kompetenzen - Nachhaltiger Wandel durch Wissen und Dialog

Join us

Citizen Science & Laboratories

Citizen Science involves working together with interested parties to address scientific, technical, and socially relevant issues, particularly those related to sustainability. In addition to the Citizen Science laboratories, this page also features other laboratories in our research areas as well as exciting activities to discover.

Citizen Science & Laboratories (german page)

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Sustainable Study Opportunities and Supervision of Theses

We see it as our task to empower students with specialist knowledge and skills to shape sustainable processes and act responsibly. You can find out more about our courses on sustainability and all current calls for theses on this page.

Go to Study Opportunities and Supervision of Theses

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Study programme Responsibility

What is a just society? How can we respond to climate change? How can we achieve sustainable development? And what role does digitalization play in this? The Responsibility study program adds the key topics of ethics, responsibility and sustainability to your degree course and provides students with a wide range of skills that they can use to reflect on and advance discourse and developments.

Go to Study programme Responsibility

Voluntary social year - politics

Would you like to spend a year full of science transfer and sustainability research? Then apply for a Voluntary Social Year - Politics (FSJ-P) at the IZNE and ZWT.

Go to Voluntary social year (german page)