Sustainability is one of the University of Hohenheim’s central founding ideas.
1816 – the year without a summer – brought devastating harvest failures and famines. So in 1818, the royal House of Württemberg founded the Hohenheim Agricultural Teaching, Experimental, and Model Institute – the forerunner of today’s university. Its mandate was to utilize scientific knowledge to establish a sustainable basis for nutrition and food production, which would also reliably benefit future generations going forward.
Since then, we have maintained and developed our ethos of sustainability. This is how the Hohenheim Model came into being, where sustainability runs through research, teaching and administration.
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