1. oikos Newsletter march 2010
Dear oikos friend!
We have started off the year with great activities in the
whole oikos network. Please find in this newsletter what has oikos is the international
happened in the last two months and get an outlook on our student organisation for
future projects. For current information also check out our sustainable economics and
homepage! management and a leading
Together, we can make a difference!
new! reference point for the
promotion of sustainability
The Annual Report change agents.
2009 is out!
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Learn more at
Click here! www.oikos-international.org
Anna Ritschel, oikos International, President 2010
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2. local chapter news
Newsletter | march 2010
oikos
Bayreuth Panel
discussion about
the limits to
growth
Are there limits to
growth? Where can oikos London conference: Carbon Trading and
they be found? Can the Climate Deal: Beyond COP15
they be overcome?
oikos Sylhet And how will they oikos London hosted a very successful event ‘Carbon Trading
launches seminar affect us? To answer and the Climate Deal: Beyond COP15’, where panellists from
on Climate Change these questions and both the government and the private sector discussed the
discuss problems that future of carbon trading in post-Copenhagen times. Look out
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The main theme of arise with the topic of for more Post- COP15 events coming shortly!
the first seminar was
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loca Apr
growth oikos Bayreuth
oikos
“Climate Change: organised a panel
apters oikos Zagreb organises
Local and International discussion.
Perspectives”. The event
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seminars on similar topics
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throughout the year.
Conference
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jan loca l chap Ahmedabad co-organised the Conference
oikos
The 2nd International Student
oikos jan
15 Conference “Time to Rethink
Municipalika 2010 – Making Cities Work Economics 2010” is an international
three-day event that brings together
The chapter supported this high level international event by
young and innovative students from
oikos New Delhi reporting on all sessions and giving content input. Members
around the world. They will exchange
officially inaugurated contributed valuable ideas on how to encourage stakeholders
NEW
ideas and experiences, improve
dealing with urban development to create sustainable and
writing and presentation skills, and
inclusive cities.
broaden their social network.
On15th January, 2010 oikos
New Delhi had its inaugural
session, gathering almost
40 students gathered at the
opening ceremony.
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3. international news
Newsletter | march 2010 Attend the oikos Spring Meeting 2009!
oikos members will gather in the beautiful French
town to explore the issues related to sustainability
and share experiences and ideas for future
Organise Spring Meeting 2011 projects. The main theme of this year’s meeting is
Sustainable Marketing: goals and processes.
Application for the Spring Meeting 2011 is
25-28
nal
now open. Organizing the Spring Meeting
Project Leadership
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is a great opportunity to increase your
Programme goes into its
ter Join our social network!
chapter’s visibility while fostering your
next round management skills!
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APPLY!
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Seven Project Leaders were
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selected to participate in this year’s
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Project Leadership Programme
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Autumn Meeting 2010 in Warsaw
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Development Fund (PDF)
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financially supports 3-5 Presidents and Advisors Retreat for presidents
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projects organised by and advisors of all oikos Local Chapters
oikos Local Chapters. The
Executive Board purpose of this fund is to
Handover Meeting improve the performance of
oikos projects by providing
Join us in welcoming the new detailed feedback and on-
oikos International team consists promoting oikos projects. going on-
of Anna Ritschel (President going
2010), Zoe Foss (oikos Belfast),
Tomasz Hajduk (oikos Warsaw), No chapter in your town? The oikos International Team is always ready to
Gabrielle Le Chevalier (oikos guide you through the process of founding an
Create a chapter! Interested in starting a new
Reims), Wolfgang Machur (oikos oikos Local Chapter.
oikos group? Founding an oikos group has a lot in
Hamburg), Kate Negacz (oikos
common with starting a company. So actually, you Please contact the International team at
Warsaw) and Ralph Ripken (oikos
can be a bit proud of yourself. You are just about makeadifference@oikosinternational.org.
Budapest).
to become an entrepreneur!
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4. academic news
Newsletter | march 2010
First oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship
oikos PhD Fellowship 2010 - Academy
NEW
2013. Call for Applications! The first oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy
Join our international team of six inter- provides PhD students a platform to present and discuss
national PhD Fellows at the University of their ongoing research projects with fellow students and
St. Gallen, Switzerland. The Fellowships senior faculty. oikos Guest faculty includes Prof. Tina Dacin,
will be awarded for a three-year period E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy & Organizational
starting in September. Each fellowship Behavior at the Queen’s School of Business, Ontario, Canada,
Prof. Filipe Santos, Academic Director at the INSEAD Social
oikos / PRI Young carries a grant of annually CHF 36,000
Entrepreneurship Initiative, Fontainebleau and Prof. Mark
Scholars Finance and an additional fund of CHF 10,800
for research, travel and participation in Starik, Department Chair and Professor of Strategy & Public
Academy scholarly conferences. Policy, George Washington University, USA. The event is
The Academy was held organized in collaboration with WWF and The Hub Zurich
APPLY!
ril 30! 22 - 27
in Gais/Switzerland and
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gathered leading academics,
APPLY until Ap aug
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practitioners, exceptional
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graduate students and young
faculty around the theme of
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mainstreaming responsible 31 jan
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investment.
- 5 feb
oik apr oikos Professional Development Workshop:
ademic Publishing on Sustainability and Management
oikos ac Kim in Canada
From January-April 2010, oikos PhD
Advanced Ph.D. candidates and young faculty are being
trained to submit their findings to mainstream management
Fellow Kim Poldner is visiting with the journals by world-class faculty: Tima Bansal, Faculty director,
Ivey Management Development Programme, University
Centre for Building Sustainable Value
of Western Ontario; Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim Prof. of
at the Richard Ivey School of Business
Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, University
in London, Ontario. While at Ivey, Kim of Michigan; and Michael V. Russo, Lundquist Professor of
is working on her dissertation, a case Sustainable Management, University of Oregon.
ch 30!
study, and a research project with ar
Want to know more about Professor Oana Branzei. Kim’s blog n til M
oikos Academic activities? www.ecofashionworld.com/Kim, gives PP LY u
a weekly overview of her activities and
A
Write to johannes.schwarzer@ offers insightful snapshots of the indus-
oikosinternational.org try and the entrepreneurs she studies.
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5. Jump Start!
NEW
oikos Mentoring The first event developed by movers & shakers
takes place during spring meeting in Reims! Alumni
Programme
NEW
offer a workshop on job opportunities in intra- and
The newly formed oikos members pair entrepreneurhip!
working group of up with alumni and
oikos alumni meets to external mentors
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n ik
brainstorm on directions to foster personal
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and projects for the
alumni network. Write to development.
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Kim if you want to join!
feb alumni o
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Movers & shakers
u mn oikos Family Day
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Meet oikos members and
going mni
on- alumni “from the good old
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days” for an inspiring one-
o day event in Warsaw! We
offer a weekend package
My name is Christina Gradl and I am a director of the Emergia Institute. We founded including hotel and city tour
this independent institute in 2008 to help fight poverty and advance environmental to enable alumni to enjoy
sustainability through business. With Emergia, we create, share and apply knowledge on Warsaw for 2-3 days.
how to include people in poverty into value chains as producers or consumers. We always
work with partners, be it UN agencies or private companies like Allianz. In this way, we
make sure our ideas have room to spread and grow. It can be challenging to get people
out of their trade-off thinking: even those responsible for CSR or sustainability often
don’t quite believe that more profit can mean more social and environmental impact.
Good examples help – and we try to create more of them.
In 2005 and 2006, I headed the oikos chapter London. We set up a sustainability
consulting group, Sustainable Future, and developed recommendations for our university,
LSE, to become more sustainable. The best experience was when we presented our ideas
to the management board of the school – and they decided to work with us to implement
them. Based on this experience, I would say that my advice to current oikos people is: on-
changing the way your university works can make a real difference – try it! going
Get involved
oikos creates a network of changemakers. I wish this network would be more transparent as alumni!
and accessible, also for us alumni. Knowing who knows and does what can help us all to
collaborate more and support each other. Social networks can really help! Are you oikos alumnus?
Not connected to the
alumni news
network yet? Write to Kim
Poldner at kim.poldner@
oikosinternational.org.
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6. get involved
??
whom
to contact
on what
…on oikos in 2010?
…on the Local Chapters?
…0n international projects?
Anna Ritschel
oikos International, President 2010
anna.ritschel@oikosinternational.org
phone +41 (0) 71 224 2698
skype ‘anna_ritschel’
…on PhD and faculty projects?
…on potential involvement as a donor?
Dr. Jost Hamschmidt
oikos Foundation, Managing Director
jost.hamschmidt@oikosinternational.org
phone +41 (0)71 224 2595
…on cross chapter projects?
Patricia Mesquita | oikos PhD Fellow 2009-2012
!
ect
…on how to join existing oikos Local Chapters patricia.mesquita@oikosinternational.org
n
Con
or support their projects?
Each oikos Chapter has a contact person for …on how to stay in touch as alumna/alumnus?
the communication with students and other
Kim Poldner | oikos PhD Fellow 2008-2011
people interested in oikos. You can contact
kim.poldner@oikosinternational.org
them directly or first visit the Local Chapter
websites:
www.oikos-international.org/chapters/ …on member coaching and training programmes?
Nina Hug | oikos PhD Fellow 2008-2011
…on oikos Debates on Sustainability in Eastern nina.hug@oikosinternational.org
Europe and the Case Teaching Initiative?
Liudmila Nazarkina | oikos PhD Fellow 2009- …on public relations?
2012
liudmila.nazarkina@oikosinternational.org Johannes Schwarzer | oikos PhD Fellow 2009-2012
johannes.schwarzer@oikosinternational.org
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