UNESCO Chair in "Higher Education for Sustainable Development"

Since 2005, Leuphana University holds the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD). The Chair serves as a global hub leaders and communities turn to for guidance and support in embedding sustainabilityat the core of education.

The purpose of the UNESCO Chair in HESD is to support educational institutions to transform into places where sustainability can be lived and learned. The Chair is home to a community of scholars from diverse backgrounds who experiment with the transformative potential of education to enhance our collective capacity to envision and work towards safe and just futures.

The Chair team does this by producing knowledge through rigorous and socially relevant research, designing responsive learning spaces and building trustful international and regional collaborations. Current areas of work are teacher education and leadership, inter- and transdisciplinary learning, as well as student participation and learner empowerment, especially youth and young adults.