New media provide new opportunities for networking and exchange about issues of global development between learners from different countries. At the same time, such learning makes new demands on the organisation and design of academic teaching. This paper describes and analyses experiences with...

The conservation of biodiversity is closely linked to sustainable development. This is particularly evident in the so-called developing countries. Latin America, for instance, hosts some of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the world. However, this biodiversity is threatened by...

Universities are key actors in sustainable development by generating new knowledge as well as contributing to the development of appropriate competencies and raising sustainability awareness. Within a project called “Sustainable University” at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany),...