Sustainability is no longer a question of the future - it is a central social task of the present. In view of global challenges, sustainability has become a key cross-cutting issue at Thuringian universities in recent years: as a subject of research and teaching, but also as a guiding principle in operations and transfer activities.
Sustainability in teaching, research, operations, transfer and governance
By joining forces to form the Thuringian University Network for Sustainability, the ten state universities in Thuringia have committed themselves to playing an active role in the transformation process towards sustainable development. The Thuringian universities are committed to their special social responsibility in teaching, research, operations, transfer and governance. As part of the network, they are committed to technological and social innovations in line with their different profiles and strengths to promote the transition to a sustainable society.Strengthening the region - advancing global transformation
On the one hand, Thuringia’s universities aim to strengthen the region and prepare it for the challenges of the future through sustainable development. On the other hand, they also contribute to advancing the necessary global transformation through research and international cooperation. The universities have ambitious goals: to secure the natural foundations of life locally and around the world in the long term, to create humane living conditions for present and future generations and to achieve local and global justice. To this end, they are committed to implementing the principles of sustainability themselves in an exemplary manner.Helping to shape a sustainable society
As different as their profiles, their developments and their specific challenges are, the ten Thuringian universities would like to work together in a coordinated manner in future under the umbrella of the Thuringian University Network for Sustainability and coordinate their strategies on an ongoing basis. The universities see themselves as laboratories of democratically organized transformation processes in which all’university members, employees and students, are offered opportunities to help shape a sustainable society in all fields of action in topic-specific working groups and committees.The Thuringian University Network for Sustainability includes
- Bauhaus University Weimar
- Gera-Eisenach Cooperative State University
- Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena
- Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar
- Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
- Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences
- Technische Universität lmenau
- University of Erfurt
The initiative for the Thuringian University Network for Sustainability came from Karsten Gaebler, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and Dr. Ulrike Kuch, Bauhaus University Weimar, who also coordinate the work of the network and are available as contact persons.
Signing of the declaration of intent for the Thuringian University Network for Sustainability
Time: 03.07.2025, 12:45Location: Gera-Eisenach Cooperative State University
Tinz Castle
