Purpose – To date, little attention has been given to the circumstances in which developing key competencies for sustainable development may take place. Within higher education, the possibilities both of formal and informal learning and their relationship to competence development should be...

Universities are key actors in sustainable development by generating new knowledge as well as contributing to the development of appropriate competencies and raising sustainability awareness. Within a project called “Sustainable University” at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany),...

Today, academia must contribute to the development of a common knowledge base which may be utilized for networked solutions to overcome economic, social and ecological problems. In this context, the question is not only what to learn, but rather how to learn it (learning culture). This applies...