Oikos is an international student organization that promotes sustainability in economics and management. It has 27 local chapters across 18 countries that organize educational events. Oikos supports these chapters and helps new ones start up through coaching, seminars, and international meetings. Oikos also engages students through academic projects, case competitions, and PhD programs to integrate sustainability into research.
1. www.oikos-international.org
be
informed
get involved
make a
difference
oikos is the international student organisation
for sustainable economics and management and
a leading reference point for the promotion of
sustainability change agents.
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2. oikos Spring
Meeting 2009,
Oslo
Local Chapters
oikos Local Chapters are run by As of May 2009, oikos had 27
highly skilled and motivated students Local Chapters in 18 countries on
who energetically work to integrate 4 continents. In 2008, the teams
sustainability at their universities organised at least 126 events,
and the local community. The teams including conferences, panel
work independently and show how discussions, simulation games,
responsibility, hands-on project seminars, surveys, lectures, movie
experience and fun go together. screenings and reading circles.
Oslo Hamburg
London
Belfast Clausthal
Paderborn Bayreuth
Brussels Warsaw Opole
Paris Reims Bratislava
Ashland Prague
Cologne Sylhet
Graz
Witten/ St.Gallen
Herdecke Budapest Dhaka
Monterrey
Friedrichshafen
Constance
Monrovia
oikos Local Chapter
Get involved
Johannesburg To contact a Local Chapter,
Chapter in accession
as of May 2009
please check
www.oikos-international.org/chapters/
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3. Student Engagement
oikos International, located in online tools, marketing materials
St.Gallen, is a network hub that and contacts to decision makers. We
supports the existing Local Chapters also bring together student change
to develop their activities and makers from the oikos Chapters in
maximise their impact. It also our international Spring and Autumn
stimulates the foundation of new meetings – for exchange of ideas,
chapters and guides their start-up concepts and experience, and to build
process. To achieve these goals, lasting networks of future change
we offer coaching, skill seminars, makers.
advancing the oikos network
empowering projects
Winter School Chapter Coaching
Student Award Spring Meeting
Autumn Meeting
Project
Development Fund President &
Advisors Retreat
Project Leadership Curricula
Programme Change
Global Case Writing PhD and Young
Competition Scholars Academies
Faculty Development PhD Fellowship
Workshops Programme
strengthening research
PhD and Faculty Engagement
With the oikos Foundation, we Our events, like the PhD and
organise academic projects to Young Scholars Academies, prepare
integrate sustainability into aspiring academics for high-impact
innovative research and teaching at inquiry into sustainability, and make
the world’s departments and schools them change agents for academic
for management and economics. innovation globally.
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