Milena Klimek

Milena Klimek is a researcher at the Institute of Development Research within the Department for Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Her work focuses on agroecological transitions, participatory higher education models, and value-based approaches in organic agriculture and urban farming systems. Based at Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, Vienna, she can be contacted at milena.klimek@boku.ac.at and holds ORCID 0000-0002-6792-0851.

• Research Interests include:
• Participatory education models in post-Soviet contexts
• Urban-rural linkages through farmers' markets
• IFOAM principles in global food systems
• Visual methods for social group representation
• Transdisciplinary competence training
• Food sovereignty movements in Europe

Key Projects involve capacity building in Ugandan refugee-host communities, organic agriculture education in Armenia, and agroecology development in Western Uganda. Her publications bridge academic research with societal impact, exploring sustainability transitions through educational models and marketplace ethics. She has supervised master's theses on edible city solutions and Austrian food sovereignty movements.