At the network meeting in Mittweida in February 2024, the researchers from Eberswalde presented initial results of their literature research on sufficiency. Furthermore, Lisa Lohse presented a research on sustainability effects of the Whole Institution Approach that can be linked to previous workshop findings (SISI Symposium June 2023 and stakeholder workshop at HNEE September 2023).

The Wandel4 project is based on the idea of the whole institution approach. With this approach all status groups
and all relevant stakeholders at the targeted universities are involved in the transformation processes. Participatory and innovative experiments with qualitative and quantitative and quantitative methods from the social sciences, transdisciplinarily linked with linked with non-scientific knowledge and and supplemented by natural science and engineering and engineering expertise.