The ZIN is committed to advancing interdisciplinary teaching, with researchers from the Centre regularly collaborating across disciplinary boundaries in sustainability-focused courses. They offer a range of teaching formats, from fully co-designed seminars and partially co-taught courses to contributions by ZIN researchers in individual sessions of colleagues' seminars. In doing so, they foster interdisciplinary exchange and provide students with diverse perspectives on complex sustainability challenges.
Here we list the courses that have been jointly organized by ZIN researchers from different disciplines.
Project seminar "Geomedia and Disinformation" (SoSe 2026). Prof. Dr. Christian Kray, Geoinformatics & Prof. Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer, Communication Studies.
Seminar "Social Entrepreneurship School”"(WiSe 25/26). ZIN participants: Dr. Lea Püchel, Economics & Dr. Tobias Gumbert, Political Science.
Intermediate Seminar "Eco-Theological Approaches in Interreligious Dialogue: Perspectives on Humans, Animals, and the Natural World" (SoSe 2025). Assistant Professor Dr. Asmaa El Maaroufi, Islamic Theology & Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer, Protestant Theology.
Intermediate Seminar "Growth?! – A Dialogue Between Social Science and Natural Science Perspectives" (SoSe 2025). Prof. Doris Fuchs, PhD, Political Science & Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp, Microbiology.
Intermediate Seminar "Digging for Diversity 2.0 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Diversity in Regenerative Societies" (SoSe 2025). Dr. Rebecca Froese, Political Science & Julia Wiethüchter, M.A., Political Science.
Seminar "Little garbage collectors, scary environmental monsters, disappearing seas - the transformation to sustainability in picture and children's books" (SoSe 2024). Dr. Carolin Bohn, Political Science, & Dr. David Rott, Education.
Advanced Seminar "Plants, Animals, and Rights – Rights of Nature?" (WiSe 23/24, with conference). Prof. Dr. Tillmann Buttschardt, Landscape Ecology & Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer, Protestant Theology.
Intermediate Seminar "The Future of Old Ideas: Political Ethics and Sustainability" (WiSe 23/24). Dr. Carolin Bohn, Political Science, and Prof. Dr. Anne Käfer, Protestant Theology.
Intermediate Seminar "Sustainability Policy—Potential and Challenges of Ecological and Social Justice" (SoSe 2016), Prof. Doris Fuchs, Political Science & Prof. Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins, Catholic Theology.
Intermediate Seminar “International Environmental Policy and Law” (Winter Semester 15/16), Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer, Political Science & Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke, Law.