Sustainability at TU Dortmund

TU Dortmund University understands sustainability as an integrative concept that ensures the long-term viability of the global ecological, economic and social system. Sustainability is a joint task in which all TU members participate across departments.

Three-part key visual of the sustainability office with symbols for social, economic and ecological aspects of sustainability. — **Sustainability Office**

[Translate to English:] — **Bicycle mobility**

Students sit in a lecture at the beginning of the study. — **studium oecologicum**

Students build an insect hotel. — **Projects**

Good to know

News on sustainability at TU

03/20/2024

Prof. Gärtner investigates how religious education strengthens environmental awareness

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is funding the research project at the Department of Humanities and Theology.

A portrait photo of a woman with glasses and a white blouse on the TU Dortmund campus.

03/07/2024

Three questions about the exhibition "Auf die Straße"

Alina Andraczek and Charlotte Groß-Hohnacker talk about their award-winning exhibition on climate activism.

two portrait photos mounted side by side, Andraczek on the left and Gross-Hohnacker on the right

03/01/2024

New courses for the studium oecolgoicum

The studium oecologicum module catalog for the summer semester 2024 is now available.

Key visual of the studium oecologicum with an icon of an open book.

02/08/2024

Planning for a "summer school sustainabilty" is progressing

Together with the Sustainability Office, motivated international students are planning a course on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the World…

Ein Student und ein wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter aus der Fakultät Raumplanung sowie zwei Mitarbeiter aus dem Nachhaltigkeitsbüro sitzen auf SDG-Würfeln in einer Runde und diskutieren über die Planung einer summer school sustainability.

02/08/2024

Senate Adopts Mission Statement for Cooperation and Transfer

The strategy paper forms the framework for strengthening collaboration with universities, society, business and politics.

A hand placing a wooden cube with the symbol of a glowing light bulb as the last top tile on a pyramid of other wooden cubes, all of which show the same motif: The schematic representation of a head, each with three cogwheels inside.

02/05/2024

studium oecologicum - New seminar from TU Berlin and the University of Technology Sydney

"Democratizing sustainability and strengthening democracy durably" will be offered as a "holiday-seminar" in the studium oecologicum module catalog.

01/31/2024

Clear commitment to diversity and democracy

TU Dortmund University stands up for basic democratic values and opposes xenophobia and discrimination.

Article 3 of the Basic Law on the equality of men and women is written on a glass plate, taken on April 3, 2016 in Berlin's Mitte district in the government quarter. According to Article 3, no one may be discriminated against because of their race, origin or political views.