The Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) focuses on understanding and guiding societal change towards sustainable development through transformative, transdisciplinary, and co-creative research.

RIFS researchers collaborate with scientists, policymakers, businesses, and civil society to develop a common understanding of sustainability challenges and generate solutions.

Transformative sustainability research integrates knowledge from within and outside science to address sustainable development problems, identify solutions, and implement them with relevant actors and communities.

RIFS engages stakeholders from the outset, involving them in its research processes rather than viewing them as mere recipients of findings.