Prof. Daniela Niesta-Kayser is a professor of special education in the Department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses, among other things, on educational inequalities, participation, and processes of migration and integration. More recently, she has expanded her work into the field of sustainability and energy through the award-winning FUturist project “Rainwater Heroes: Cooperative Learning Strategies for Water Conservation and Urban Tree Support.”This project connects social-psychological research on self-efficacy, participation, and collaborative learning with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and is currently being further developed in terms of both scientific depth and practical transfer. Her contributions to sustainability and transformation research are marked by a focus on social embeddedness, collective efficacy, and institutional conditions, building on her extensive expertise in social inequality, inclusion, and cooperative learning environments. Her work aims to help people better understand how institutions change by using a "whole institution" approach.