Learning and Teaching at HNEE
Your degree programme at HNEE follows the principles of higher education for sustainable development and offers a unique range of courses geared towards topics relevant to the future. At HNEE, students learn to proactively shape sustainability transformation. With our study model, sustainable development becomes the DNA of all our graduates - for a forward-looking world.

As part of their ‘Organic Agriculture and Marketing’ degree programme, HNEE students gain experience on the Erz family's partner farm in Alt Tucheband OT Rathstock in the practice-oriented module ‘Project Study Partner Organic Farm’.

Students present their start-up ideas

Classic lecture mixed with practical application

Students work together to develop content during class time.

Students and guests listen to a band outside the canteen
With our Eberswalde study model, we offer you comprehensive opportunities for your personal and professional development so that you can realise your potential and grow your skills.

Prof Dr Uta Steinhardt
Vice President for Studies and Teaching at HNEE
Teaching mission statement and Eberswalde DNA
With our teaching mission statement, we describe how teaching and learning are practised at HNEE and what we understand by good teaching and skills development. Find out more about our → principles:
- We take responsibility
- We are international, diverse and equal
- We are networked and practical
- We shape sustainable transformation
- We see digitalisation as an opportunity and an obligation

Our principles in implementation
Educational innovation for the sustainability transformation
The Eberswalde DNA with its integrative acquisition of skills is the core of the Eberswalde study model, but it also includes other ingredients:
- Sustainability in all study programmes
- practical contacts
- Project-orientated and research-based learning
- individual competence profiles
Contact persons for studies and teaching
Vice President for Studies and Teaching
Professur Landschaftsökologie und Landnutzungsplanung