Blockchain & Decentralized Finance - Opportunities for Sustainable Development

Bochum University of Applied Sciences has identified the central transformation topics of

sustainability and digitalisation as a key goal and anchored them in its strategy. In several

study programmes, students are already being prepared and qualified as future experts

for their tasks as agents of change in the transformation process. The importance of digitalisation for solving future sustainability

challenges is clearly becoming the dominant factor. In its report Our Common Digital Future,

the Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) emphasises that digitalisation must

be designed in such a way that it can serve as a lever and support for the Great Transformation

towards sustainability and can be synchronised with it.

In this context, technological approaches and use cases from the areas of blockchain and

decentralized finance are prominently discussed in the public debate and are still controversial

with regard to their contribution to sustainable development.