Prof. Dr. Heike Walk
Professor of Sustainability Transformation and Participative Governance
| Heike.Walk(at)hnee.de | |
| Phone | +49 3334 657-193 |
| Location | City Campus | Schicklerstrasse 5 | 16225 Eberswalde |
| Room | 02.208 |
| Office Hours | by arrangement |
- Civic engagement, civil society, social movements
- Transformative sciences & service learning
- Participatory forms of governance
- Cooperatives and sustainability
- Analyses of democracy and civil society
- Citizen involvement and participation
- Challenges of a sustainability transformation
- Cooperatives and new work
GENOTRAFO – Cooperatives as key players in socio-ecological transformation
The project ‘Cooperatives as key players in socio-ecological transformation’ (GENOTRAFO) focuses on the socio-ecological potential of cooperatives, especially in rural areas where many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face the challenge of finding suitable employees and successors. If, for example, the village bakery or country inn cannot find a successor, employees could continue to run it as a cooperative, as a team rather than a single person.
Ensuring start-ups and successions is essential for stabilising economic structures in peripheral regions and preserving jobs. This is precisely where GENOTRAFO comes in, working closely with stakeholders from business, research and civil society. Cooperative models for start-ups and business successions are being scientifically investigated and practical solutions developed together with cooperation partners.
TRANSECTS: The TRANSdisciplinary Education Collaboration for Transformations in Sustainability
The aim of the TRANSECTS project: The TRANSdisciplinary Education Collaboration for Transformations in Sustainability is to offer innovative research and training experiences in order to equip staff with transdisciplinary research skills and professional abilities. In addition, we create international experiential learning opportunities for students that promote critical, relational and reflective thinking among participants, establish new forms of collaborative and comparative research, and build international and intercultural skills and professional networks.
Inno4Ufo – Innovative tools for business succession
Project to develop co-creative support services to increase the likelihood of successful business succession. Support for companies in the business succession process. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Professorship in Sustainability Transformation and Participative Governance
Habilitation in Political Science (University of Münster)
Doctorate (Dr. phil., Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin)
Political scientist (Dipl.-Pol., Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin)
Spokesperson/board member for the Higher Education Network Education through Responsibility (HBdV)
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barnim Uckermark Community Foundation
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research in Berlin
Rosenberg E, Cockburn J, Reed M, James W, Gengelbach J, Walk H.
Einführung in die nachhaltige Entwicklung (ENE) – ein inter- und transdisziplinäres Pflichtmodul
Walk, H./ Scalisi, J./ Pleuser, C. (2024): Einführung in die nachhaltige Entwicklung (ENE) – ein inter- und transdisziplinäres Pflichtmodul, Leal Filho, W. (Hrsg.), Lernziele und Kompetenzen im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit, Springer Spekturm, Wiesbaden, S. 239 – 25
Zielgruppenorientierte Beteiligung in ländlichen Regionen zur Unterstützung nachhaltiger Innovationsprozesse
Walk, H. (2022): Zielgruppenorientierte Beteiligung in ländlichen Regionen zur Unterstützung nachhaltiger Innovationsprozesse: region 4.0, in: eNewsletter Netzwerk Bürgerbeteiligung 03/2022
Handreichung: Nachhaltigkeitstransfer in der Lehre
Nölting, Benjamin ; Dembski, Nadine ; Fritz, Hilke ; Kräusche, Kerstin ; Lehmann, Kerstin ; Molitor, Heike ; Pape, Jens ; Pfriem, Alexander ; Seichter, Cosima Zita ; Walk, Heike
Die Rolle von Protestbewegungen und ihr Verhältnis zur staatlichen Politik
Walk H./ Brunnengräber A. (2021): Die Rolle von Protestbewegungen und ihr Verhältnis zur staatlichen Politik. In: Korte KR., Florack M. (eds) Handbuch Regierungsforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Neue Impulse für strukturschwache Regionen: Durch zielgruppenspezifische Beteiligungsformate Empowerment und eine „Kultur der Innovation“ fördern
Neumann, A./ Walk, H. (2021): Neue Impulse für strukturschwache Regionen: Durch
zielgruppenspezifische Beteiligungsformate Empowerment und eine „Kultur der Innovation“
fördern, Kursbuch Bürgerbeteiligung 4, Berlin: Verlag: Deutsche Umweltstiftungbipar, S.326-346
Participatory learning for transdisciplinary science in biosphere reserves – A modified role for universities
Walk, H., Luthardt, V., & Nölting, B. (2020). Participatory learning for transdisciplinary science in biosphere reserves – A modified role for universities. In M. Price & M. Reed (Hrsg.), UNESCO biosphere reserves: Supporting biocultural diversity, sustainability and society (S. 297–307). Earthscan & Routledge.
Digitalisierung: Fluch oder Segen für die Umweltbewegungen? Akteure erwarten neue und vielfältige Herausforderungen
Koller, M./ Walk, H. (2020): Digitalisierung: Fluch oder Segen für die Umweltbewegungen? Akteure erwarten neue und vielfältige Herausforderungen, in: Jahrbuch Ökologie 19/20, Stuttgart: S.Hirzel Verlag, S.138-148
Humans in the Global Ecosystem
Ibisch, Pierre L./ Molitor, Heike/ Conrad, Alexander/ Walk, Heike/ Mihotovic, Vanja/ Geyer, Juliane (eds.) (2019). Humans in the Global Ecosystem, München
The controls: political systems
Nölting, B./ Ott, H.O./ Walk, H. (2019): The controls: political systems. In: Ibisch, Pierre L./ Molitor, Heike/ Conrad, Alexander/ Walk, Heike/ Mihotovic, Vanja/ Geyer, Juliane (eds.). Humans in the Global Ecosystem, München: oekom, p. 219-239
Everyone affected and involved: civil society systems
Walk, H./ Ott, H.O./ Welp, M. (2019): Everyone affected and involved: civil society systems. In: Ibisch, Pierre L./ Molitor, Heike/ Conrad, Alexander/ Walk, Heike/ Mihotovic, Vanja/ Geyer, Juliane (eds.). Humans in the Global Ecosystem, München: oekom, p. 241-259
Sustainability Transformation
Walk, H./ Ibisch, P. (2019): Sustainability Transformation. In: Ibisch, Pierre L./ Molitor, Heike/ Conrad, Alexander/ Walk, Heike/ Mihotovic, Vanja/ Geyer, Juliane (eds.). Humans in the Global Ecosystem, München: oekom, p. 285-302
Genossenschaften als alte und neue Player
Walk, Heike (2019): Genossenschaften als alte und neue Player, in: Freise, M./ Zimmer, A./ (2019): Zivilgesellschaft und Wohlfahrtsstaat im Wandel: Akteure, Strategien und Politikfelder, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 123-142
Der Mensch im globalen Ökosystem. Eine Einführung in die nachhaltige Entwicklung
Ibisch, Pierre L./ Molitor, Heike/ Conrad, Alexander/ Walk, Heike/ Mihotovic, Vanja/ Geyer, Juliane (2018): Der Mensch im globalen Ökosystem. Eine Einführung in die nachhaltige Entwicklung, München: oekom