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Office MAR 1-1
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| Since 09.08.2021 Prof. Dr. Ulf Schrader is currently on leave to take up the office of Vice President for Teacher Education and Junior Scholars at TU Berlin. Prof. Dr. Viola Muster is acting head of the Chair of Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption. | |
| Teaching | Ulf Schrader is giving a guest lecture on ”How saving time leads to destruction of time-wealth and environment – and what could be done against it” on February 1, 2018, at George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester (USA). |
| Research | Ulf Schrader presented a lecture on "Meditating for the planet - Quantitative results of a mindfulness intervention study on sustainable consumption" at the GRF Third International Conference on "Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy" at the end of June. This presentation has been recorded and published on the Youtube-Channel of SCORAI. View it here. |
| Research | Since November 2017 Ulf Schrader is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. |
| Events | Ulf Schrader is giving a lunch talk on ”Transdisciplinary Research into Sustainable Consumption - Examples from TU Berlin“ on September 14, 2017, at George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester (USA). |
| Teaching | From August 2017 to February 2018, Ulf Schrader is visiting scholar at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester (USA). |
| Event | At the emergent berlin festival 2016 Sonja Geiger presents the project BINKA - Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training on Saturday, October 1st, 2016 in Berlin. |
| Event | On Thursday, September 29th, 2016, Sonja Geiger of the BINKA-project discusses with other experts the question "Fair rather than fast - how does Fair Trade of clothing succeed?" at the Fair Week in Göttingen. |
| Event | On Tuesday, September 20th, 2016, Sonja Geiger presents the project BINKA – Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training at the Science-Slam "Psycho Slam", organised as part of the 50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology in Leipzig. |
| Media | On July the 14th, 2016, Viola Muster and Ulf Schrader introduced in the Wirtschaftswoche first results on the role of sustainability-oriented employees in companies from project IMKoN - Integrating Employees as Consumers into Sustainability Innovation Processes. |
| Media | On 8th of June 2015 Ulf Schrader gave an interview to The Federation of German Consumer Organisations, titled „The school subject Economy – Work – Technology can be used as leading subject for consumer education“. It is available under www.verbraucherbildung.de/verbraucherwissen/wirtschaft-arbeit-technik-taugt als-leitfach-fuer-verbraucherbildung [3]. |
| Teaching | Silke Reichmann de Salas will accompany on 6th July 2015 the course „Special issues young disadvantaged adults are confronted with at work and in profession“ (8am to 10am, MAR 1.001). She will present the dialogue „How about recognition“. |
| Research | Beginning on the 1st of April 2015 the department Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption (ALÖNK) will be the head of the project from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Integrating Employees as Consumers into Sustainability Innovation Processes (IMKoN). The project will run for three years and is funded by the BMBF with 1.125 m euro. |
| Publicity | The conferral of a doctorate from Vera Fricke dealing with the subject of “CSR-Kommuniktion für Konsumentenverantwortung” is now available at Metropolis Verlag für Ökonomie, Gesellschaft und Politik. |
| Research | Beginning on the 1st of April 2015 the chair Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption (ALÖNK) will be the head of the project from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) BiNKA (PDF, 113,3 KB) – Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training. The project will run for three years and is funded by the BMBF with 835,000 euro. |
| Publicity | On October 13, 2014 the Tagesspiegel released an article concerning the independence of the current generation of university students with a comment from Ulf Schrader. |
| Publicity | On April 24, 2014 the RBB broadcasted a feature about the importance of Fairtrade-products with comments from Ulf Schrader. |
| Publicity | On March 3, 2014 Bayer2 broadcasted a feature with the topic „Ist moralisch Kaufen eine Kunst? Erkenntnisse der Konsumethik“ with comments from Ulf Schrader. |
| Research | The anthology from Ulf Schrader and Viola Muster „Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen. Wege zu mehr Glaubwürdigkeit und Sichtbarkeit“ was published by the Metropolis-Verlag end of February 2014. |
| Research | The chair Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption was co-promoter of the conference "Nachhaltiger Konsum - Ein Frage der Politik, der Produktion und des Stils?" of the Netzwerk Verbraucherforschung in January 15, 2014. |
| Research | From the middle of March till the middle of July John Thøgersen is Visiting Professor at the IBBA. John Thøgersen is professor in economic psychology and coordinator of the „Marketing and Sustainability Research Group“ at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is one of the most prestigious experts for sustainable consumption worldwide and is cooperating for years with the Division of Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption at TU Berlin. |
| Research | The volume "Enabling Responsible Living", edited from Ulf Schrader and Vera Fricke, is now published. The book focuses on responsible living from a practical as well as a theoretical perspective. |
| Research | The Proceedings of the 2012 PERL Conference on "Beyond Consumption" are now online. |
| Research | March 19-20: The chair hosted the PERL International Conference "Beyond Consumption. Pathways to Responsible Living". |
| Research | March 1st: The Journal of Consumer Policy Special Issue "From Knowledge to Action - New Paths towars Sustainable Consumption", edited by John Thøgersen and Ulf Schrader, is online now. |
| Research | New publication: Muster, Viola; Schrader, Ulf (2011): Green Work-Life Balance: A new perspective for Green Human Resource Management. German Journal of Research on Human Resource Management, 25(2), 140-156. By courtesy of Rainer Hampp Verlag (www.hampp-verlag.de) |
| Research | Ulf Schrader is a new member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consumer Policy, 34(1), 161-174. |
| Research | New publication: Muster, Viola (2011): Companies Promoting Sustainable Consumption of Employees. Journal of Consumer Policy, 33. |
| Research | Ulf Schrader and Vera Fricke are co-organizing PERL International Conference"Enabling for Responsible Living", March, 14th-15th 2011 in Istanbul/Turkey. Call for Proposals till November, 30th 2010 Call for Proposals. |
| Research | John Thøgersen and Ulf Schrader are editing a special issue of the Journal of Consumer Policy. "From Knowledge to Action New Paths towards Sustainable Consumption". Submissions are welcome until March 31st, 2011. |
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