Sustainability

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.

“Stakeholder cooperation” chart

Studies and Teaching

Depending on the faculty, 35 to 80 percent of lecturers state that sustainability is a main or secondary topic in their current courses. This includes degree programs explicitly geared toward sustainability, such as the international Bioeconomy Master’s program.

Our highly committed and creative students work on many specialized sub-projects around sustainability for seminar papers or their final theses.

Campus

We strive to implement sustainability in the day-to-day operations of the University. We were one of the first universities in the country to produce comprehensive carbon accounting for 2019 – to gain as complete an overview as possible of emissions, identify hotspots, and target CO2 savings.

Contact

Wolfgang Lutz
Technical and Domestic Services Department
Energy management
+49 711 459 22041