The Summer School aims to encourage the implementation of sustainability into research and teaching of East European universities – both in terms of higher education policy frameworks and transformation of higher education institutions. The participants will also have the possibility to attend the 4th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair "Higher Education for Sustainable Development" as part of the agenda. The following key topics will be covered: Universities as teaching, learning and living environments for sustainable development: contributions of educational institutions to promote sustainable societal development; Implementation of sustainability-oriented teaching: challenges for curricular mainstreaming; content-related, methodological and structural challenges for different target groups; Sustainability research: inter-and transdisciplinary research approaches and methods; Sustainability-oriented cooperation between science and practice: challenges (interface management and knowledge integration); efficiency measurement and evaluation; Approaches to academic institutionalization of sustainability: management systems, indicator sets, benchmark systems, approaches to organizational change.