The C3L is expanding the area of renewable energies and sustainability. This is reflected in the university's Sustainability Report 2024.
The University of Oldenburg's third sustainability report was also compiled by students. The report also presents programmes offered by the C3L. For example, a graduate of the wind studies programme describes his experiences with the continuing education programme, which has been qualifying subjects and managers for 20 years. The commercial employee from the wind industry reports how the extra-occupational further education programme helped him to understand the technical aspects of wind farm planning. He has since taken over the management of a team at a foreign location. The content of the eleven-month wind study programme ranges from the planning and construction of a wind farm to energy and contract law and technical operations management. In a joint project work, the participants learn in a practical and interdisciplinary manner how to realise a wind farm from spatial planning to commissioning.
The report also contains an overview of the C3L programmes in the field of renewable energies and sustainability. These include the further education programmes "Hydrogen for subjects and managers" and "Approval practice for the energy transition". The C3L is currently establishing a Lower Saxony-wide education and knowledge hub on the energy transition in co-operation with the Energy and Research Centre of Lower Saxony (EFZN): The EFZN Academy.
Education for sustainable development also has a firm place in the C3L's part-time degree programmes. For example, individual modules in the part-time Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration or the Master's degree programme in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship are dedicated to the field of sustainability management. Aspects such as climate change and social responsibility are also addressed in other degree programmes, for example when organisational change or business model development are examined from a sustainability perspective.
This is the third report to be produced by students and the result of the practical seminar "Sustainability Reporting", in which 24 students from the Environment and Sustainability master's cluster took part. The reporting is organised by the university's Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (COAST). The project was led by Prof Dr Bernd Siebenhüner. The University of Oldenburg was one of the first German universities to set out on this path and published a sustainability profile back in 2007. The first report dates back to 2017.