Dates
| weekly | Tuesday | 08:15 - 09:45 | 12.10.2026 - 27.10.2026 | C 40.255 Seminarraum |
| single appointment | Fr, 23.10.2026, 10:15 - Fr, 23.10.2026, 13:45 | C 12.107 Seminarraum | Subsitute date for 3 and 10 November |
| weekly | Tuesday | 08:15 - 09:45 | 17.11.2026 - 29.01.2027 | C 40.255 Seminarraum |
Curriculum context
Seminararbeit (35%)
Portfolio (35%)
Resit date: No resit date will be offered to this assessment, because it is didactically inseparably connected with one of the associated courses. A resit will only be possible, if the module is available again.
Organizational information
Registration
Registration ends on 12.10.2026 at 23:59.
If your registration for this course is successful you will registered automatically for the course Gerechtigkeit 07: Übung (EN) - Ü (Anna Katherine Gonzalez Suero).
Persons
Content
How can leadership contribute to sustainable development in times of multiple crises and uncertain futures? This seminar explores this question across different contexts, using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a shared frame of reference.
In the first part of the seminar, students engage with different concepts and understandings of leadership and discuss what "leadership for sustainable development" can mean in practice. Questions of justice run through this discussion: Whose interests do leaders represent, who is affected by their decisions, and who has a voice in shaping sustainability transformations?
Building on this, students form small groups, choose a focus of their own interest, and carry out a small research project following the principles of research-based learning. Leadership can be explored in any field, for example in schools, non-governmental organizations, companies, start-ups or politics. Previous projects explored leadership in areas such as fashion, renewable energy, e-mobility, gender diversity and political communication.
Depending on their focus, groups can draw on different analytical perspectives, such as adaptive leadership, responsible leadership or the concept of change agents, to examine how leaders deal with complex sustainability challenges.
In this seminar, students are introduced to scientific work, including:
- developing a problem statement and research question
- identifying and working with literature
- choosing and applying methods of data collection and analysis
- conducting research collaboratively in a group
- presenting and discussing research findings
The seminar is positioned within the framework of the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development, held at Leuphana since 2005, and offers opportunities to interact with international partners of the Chair.
Evaluation
Further information on teaching evaluation: https://www.leuphana.de/en/teaching/quality-management/evaluation/course-evaluation.html