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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. 

Publications

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September 2025

Exploring Social Value for Sustainability

A Revelatory Case Study

Anne-Ka­ren Hü­ske, Assistant Professor

Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva
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June 2025

Artifical Intelligence in Education

The Effect of Customized GPT Use on Learning Outcomes

Li­a­na Ra­z­me­ri­ta, Associate Professor

Kai Ho­ck­erts, Professor

Anne-Ka­ren Hü­ske, Assistant Professor

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2025

Harnessing Hackathons and Generative AI for Social Entrepreneurship Education

Exploring the Role of Prompt Engineering in Competency Development

Hendrik Wache

Leonhard Gebhardt

Christoph Kollwitz

Anne-Ka­ren Hü­ske, Assistant Professor

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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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