2025

ZIN-scholars offer a wide range of sustainability-related courses in the summer term 2025

In the summer term 2025, ZIN members and staff will once again be offering a variety of exciting sustainability-related courses in various disciplines. These include, for example,  seminars on topics such as „Wachstum?! Ein Dialog zwischen sozial- und naturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven“ or „Ökotheologische Ansätze im interreligiösen Dialog“and also lectures, for example on „Bioethik“ or „Raumplanung und Nachhaltigkeit“. | Read more

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Multidisciplinary perspectives on growth in the context of sustainability

May 12 - 13, 2025, Katholisch-Soziale Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring 50, 48149 Münster

Growth - a term with many facets. While it is often seen as a criterion for success in business, environmental scientists warn of the ecological limits of our planet. What can sustainable growth look like? What alternatives are there? And what can we learn from different disciplines? | Read more

Invitation to participate in a study on the acceptance of bio-based dyes in plastics

The Interreg NWE project ECOPRO under the leadership of ZIN board member Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp, a continuation of the CurCol project, is developing sustainable and biodegradable dyes for packaging materials. You are invited to take part in a study looking at the acceptance of bio-based dyes as a sustainable replacement for conventional additives in plastics. | Read more
 

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Sustainability meets democracy: The Citizens' Council on Nutrition

New post on the blog “Nach(haltig) gedacht” (Sustainably thought)

How can we make our diet more sustainable and fit for the future? This question was addressed by a national citizens' council, which was first launched by the German Bundestag in 2023. This has triggered extensive media coverage but has also gained traction in the scientific debate. | Read more

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InnoHub team conducts real-life experiment with TheWEEK

As part of the Innovation Hub on socio-ecological sustainability based at the ZIN, the various sustainability activities at the University of Münster are to be interlinked with each other and with other European universities in the Ulysseus network. The InnoHub team has now carried out a real-life experiment in which it tested the so-called TheWEEK format to explore how it can be used in teaching and in the context of Ulysseus. | Read more

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Will oil and gas become unaffordable? Emissions trading from 2027 and its social consequences

Thursday, 23 January, 7 pm, vhs-Forum, Aegidiimarkt 2

On Thursday, 23 January 2025, the Münsteraner Klimagespräche will enter the next round. On the topic of ‘Will oil and gas become unaffordable? Emissions trading from 2027 and its social consequences’, a discussion with impulse speeches will take place, moderated by ZIN scientist Prof. Dr. Tillmann Buttschardt. The climate discussion starts at 7 pm in the vhs-Forum, Aegidiimarkt 2. Admission is free.
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