PEAK-Expert
Lars Keller
Focus
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPEMENT
Contact
email:
lars.keller@uibk.ac.at
phone:
+43 512 507 543030
web:
Education for Sustainable Developement
Personal Website
Speaks: English, German, Italian
Lars Keller is a professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Innsbruck and leads the research group 'Education and Communication for Sustainable Development'. His research focuses on the question of how to prepare young people in school and university contexts for the Global Grand Challenges of the 21st century, e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, resource distribution, energy transition, digitalisation and AI, while at the same time showing them options for action. Keller is co-author of the 2nd Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (AAR2).
Focus cloud: climate education, education for sustainable development, teacher training, regional development with young people
About
Lars Keller completed his doctorate and habilitation in Geography at the University of Innsbruck and has taught at various schools in Austria, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Italy. Keller analyses the climate crisis from a scientific and social perspective and applies his expertise in the field of education and communication. In 2018 he started to lead the SDG4 group within the UniNEtZ-project which resulted in an option-report submitted to the Austrian Federal Government in 2022.
Together with his team, Lars Keller coordinates several international transdisciplinary projects in the field of sustainability and climate change. His scientific and transfer-oriented work includes more than 200 publications, e.g. studies on climate change adaptation, mitigation and transformation, quality of life, inter- and transdisciplinary research with adolescents and young adults, constructivist learning in Geography and Economics, (Green) Financial Education and, above all, Education for Sustainable Development. He has held the professorship in this field at the Department of Subject Specific Didactics since 2022.