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Anne-Kar­en Hüske

Assistant Professor

Subjects
Entrepreneurship Learning Sustainability Climate Environment Education

Primary research areas

Social Entrepreneurship Education (sustainable entrepreneurship education): competencies for societal change makers to drive sustainable development

Social and sustainable entrepreneurship enables social innovation. Social entrepreneurship education develops the skills and mindsets to address societal challenges. A social entrepreneurship competency scale assesses the perceived competency development to facilitate learning and education and how this leads to outcomes, e.g., organizational performance and societal impact. 

Sustainability in Higher Education and Responsible Management Education

Beyond sustainable and social entrepreneurs, each decision maker in business can contribute to Sustainable Development. Implementing sustainability in higher education, especially responsible management education enables the graduates to become responsible decision-makers to enable the sustainability transition of business.

Sustainability transformation in organisations through sustainability innovations

Identifying barriers and drivers to innovation related to external stakeholders, the organization, and individuals helps develop strategies for successfully implementing innovation. The multilevel barrier and driver analysis was applied for a variety of sustainable innovation (e.g., green procurement, sustainable operations, save wastewater use in agriculture) in private and public organisations in different countries.

Advancing sustainable development through social entrepreneurship, sustainable management, and responsible management education

Anne-Karen Hueske is Assistant Professor and holds a Dr. rer. pol. from Dresden University of Technology (Germany). Her research on sustainability transformation ofa organizations, like sustainable innovation implementation, social/ entrepreneurship, and responsible management education. 

Business can contribute sustainable development 

Anne-Karen Hueske leads task teams and work packages related to social entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial university, citizen engagement, quality in higher education, and regional stakeholder management in Aurora universities and the MSCA doctoral network seizmic on social entrepreneurship scaling. As institutional coordinator, she represents CBS in the executive meetings of the European University Network Aurora.   

Her research helps: 
- Businesses and other organizations  developing strategies to implement sustainability and innovation in organizations considering external stakeholders, organizational levers, and organizational members. 
- Social entrepreneurs, societal change makers, educators, and learners to reflect on their skills and mindsets for adressing social challenges with social entrepreneurship and innovation via a set of social entrepreneurship competencies. 
- Educators to  assess the social entrepreneurship development of learners and thereby align learning objectives, activities and outcomes. 
- To measure and assess social impact. 

Recent research projects

Aurora universities

Aurora was formed in 2016 as a consortium of research-intensive universities deeply committed to the social impact of their activities, and with a history of engagement with their communities.

As 9 universities working together, Aurora universities aim to harness our academic excellence to influence societal change through research and educational activities – and ultimately to contribute to the achievement of the sustainable development goals.

Anne-Karen Hueske takes on leadership roles and contributes to task teams to facilitate social entrepreneurship education with short-term mobility and interdisciplinary courses, assess perceived social entrepreneurship competency development of learners, and assess the impact and quality of higher education in the Aurora universities.
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seizmic

seizmic is a set of activities to facilitate social entrepreneurship education, which includes social entrepreneurship and innovation courses, seizmic app, and award, and the social entrepreneurship and innovation courses, seizmic app, and award, and the social entrepreneurship competency survey.
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MSCA doctoral network seizmic

As the first doctoral network of its kind, this initiative is dedicated to positioning the scaling of social entrepreneurship as a central academic discipline, bridging research, training, and practice across Europe. 
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Outside activities

Research project advisory board member, 2021–2024

'Standardized web-based benchmark system for sustainability assessment at higher education institutions: practical relevant indicators for sustainability reporting on higher education specific aspects'. Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
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