Since August 2022, Lukas Meese supports the BMBF project ARIADNE as a student assistant. After completing his Bachelor's degree in Economics (Political Economy) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, he has been studying the Master's degree "Economics - Sustainability" at the Cusanus University in Koblenz since October 2020. Here, he is mainly concerned with the cultural history and history of ideas of economic thought, sustainability and societal natural relations, and new economic paradigms for a socio-ecological transformation.