Department for Strategic University Development & Sustainability

The department's role is to define sustainability an overarching and profile-raising guiding principle for the university development process.

Strategy
As part of Hesse’s higher education pact 2021–2025, the management of Hochschule Geisenheim University aims to establish consolidate sustainability as a guiding principle for the (further) development of the university – together with all university members and in all areas of university life. To this end, a holistic organizational development in the sense of a "Whole Institution Approach" is initiated. This means that the university not only aligns itself with the principles of sustainability in terms of content in research, teaching and transfer, but also in everyday university life with regard to all processes of university management/governance and operations.

Realisation
In order to promote working together towards more sustainability for all university members of all five fields of activity – research, teaching, transfer, management/governance and operations – our department coordinates the activities of the Green Office ....

...we offer:

• a central coordination and advisory plattform
  - on the topic of sustainability
  - for all university members

...our goals are:

• to enable participation across the university and
• to raise awareness for holistic sustainability.

• Head of department
• Strategic university development:
  • developing and implementing a detailed sustainability concept for the entire university
• Sustainability management
• External networking:
  • Netzwerk Nachhaltigkeit an hessischen Hochschulen
  • BNE-Forum Hochschule
  • etc.

• Deputy head of department
• Energy management
  • System design
  • Renewable energy generation
  • Change Agents
• Biomass management
  • Compost
  • Composting workshop

• Green Office
  • NachhalTisch (Round table for all topics regarding sustainability)
  • FairTrade-Committee
  • Azubi-Firma (Apprentices' company)
• ESD training for teaching staff: Sustainability: Upskilling Lehre

• nachhaltigkeitsRhein-Nahe-Allianz (nRNA)
  cooperation with TH Bingen and EBS regarding:
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Transfer
• Hub - Biodiversity management at Higher Education Institutions of the DG Hoch N
• Websites
• Biomass management
  • Compost
  • Bokashi

Katharina Koch, B.Eng.

stud.nachhaltigkeit(at)hs-gm.de

• Campus design

Degree program: Landscape architecture an landscape planning (M.Sc.)

With the Green Office since: 03.2023

Susanne Dietz

stud.nachhaltigkeit(at)hs-gm.de

• Communication

Degree program: Horticulture (B.Sc.)

With the Green Office since: 10.2023

Benedikt Metternich

stud.nachhaltigkeit(at)hs-gm.de

Biomass management:

• Support in producing Compost
• Support in producing Bokashi

Energy management:

• Support with various tasks

Degree program: Horticulture (B.Sc.)

With the Green Office since: 03.2024

Till Schmölter

stud.nachhaltigkeit(at)hs-gm.de

Biomass management:

• Support in producing Compost
• Support in producing Bokashi

Energy management:

• Support with various tasks

Degree program: Horticulture (B.Sc.)

With the Green Office since: 03.2024

Meike Leilich

stud.nachhaltigkeit(at)hs-gm.de

Supporting various sustainability projects

• planning Summer School "Greening of Buildings & Rooftops",
• activities for implementing the Heat Action Plan
• assisting with the Mobility Survey

Degree program: Landscape architecture (B.Sc.)

With the Green Office since: 12.2024