The Sustainable Development Goals are intended to provide direction to political, administrative, societal and economical strategies. Design-ability in open systems of innovation (Weber 2018) then becomes one of the core elements of higher education for sustainable development by seeking to develop relevant approaches for sustainability and ´innovation learning´ within regional platform strategies. ´Innovation learning´ for sustainability offers potential for professionalization and social change (Weber, Heidelmann & Klös 2018). Involving higher education students in real, context based learning offers new opportunities in the field of experience and design oriented learning (Singer–Brodowski 2016). Systematically interconnecting university and region by sustainability labs (Feurstein et al 2008) opens up a liminal space between university and region for design-ability learning and it´s assessment. Our project financed by the German Council for Sustainable Development within the program ‚Culture of Sustainability“ addressed regional circuits of nutrition and in a two semester program interconnected university and regional innovation. By three sustainability innovation labs (2018/2019) we involved university and regional stakeholders like the university canteen, producers, suppliers, providers, regional politics and administration, students as users of a sustainable university canteen as well as recycling. In those regional platform strategies, students acted as organizers and facilitators of the innovation labs. Our program learning assessment was realized by a qualitative empirical research design. In a longitudinal approach (Brake 2018) we used image based interviews and group discussions at the beginning, within the process and at the end of the program. Assessing students´ professionalization in 10 waves, we follow the process of learning and the process of organizing and realizing the labs. In our presentation we discuss the potentials of a qualitative assessment within organizational education professionalization for sustainability (Heidelmann & Weber 2018).

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