www.oikos-international.

org oikos International

students for sustainable

be in economics and management

forme

the
get invo d
l
make a differ ed v
ence

oikos
year
2008

plus an outlook on 2009
 vision & mission
oikos strengthens Therefore, we

action competence 1 increase awareness about sustainability opportunities and

challenges, focusing on students of management and economics,
for sustainable
development 2 foster their ability not only to analyse long-term economic,
environmental and social trends, but also implement sustainability-
driven innovation,
among
tomorrow’s 3 create institutional support for these learning processes through the
integration of sustainability issues in research and teaching at the
decision makers. world’s faculties for management and economics.

Student Dialogue
oikos Conference 2008
St.Gallen, Switzerland

 welcome
katha

at a glance says...
2008 was a thrilling year for this
world - and also for oikos. We would
Our highlights in 2008, like to share some of our most
exciting moments with you and show

and a glimpse of the future. you our plans for 2009.

It was extremely motivating to be
100% involved with oikos in 2008.
Thanks to our great team, members,
advisors, sponsors and supporters!
Let’s keep in touch, Katha
Inter-
4-5
How do we empower student leaders,
advance the oikos network and Katharina Beck, President 2008
national
2008
strengthen sustainability research?

Local
6-7
How do our Local Chapters

Chapter
make a difference at their local
universities and faculties? kate
says...
2009
How do we
make a difference
in 2009? 8-9 Welcome to oikos in 2009!

10
oikos and the topic spotlight How do we promote curricula change Be informed about our recent

future of finance and advance academic research for a

sustainable future of finance?
activities, get involved in future
oikos projects and make a difference
by organising projects at your

you & us
How do we work with our
alumni, project partners,
students and donators?
11
University or whereever you can
make a positive impact. Yes, you can!
Yours, Kate

12
How can you get involved — Kate Negacz, President 2009
and work together with us for
get involved sustainable economics and management?


 international
Project Leadership Project Development Fund
on-
NEW

NEW
Programme going
Ten project leaders develop and
realise change projects in a seven
months coaching and skill programme.
Martin Herrndorf and Nina
Hug become oikos PhD
oikos supports eight Local Chapter
projects with coaching and (seed)
funding, based on alumni donations
matched by the GLS bank.
16 PhD students
from 12 countries
Case on the social discuss their research
enterprise ‘Scojo designs and results
Katharina Beck inspires

NEW
Fellows. Nina studies the Foundation’ by Ted on entrepreneurial
students at the World London and Mary
communication of public Student Summit on strategies for
value and kicks off new Christiansen, University sustainability with
Sustainability in of Michigan, wins
oikos personal development Regina, Canada, in the international faculty.
oikos provides projects. Martin joins to oikos Case Writing
NEW

newly launched oikos

the Local study Base of the Pyramid Competition. oikos PhD Summer
Chapters with Pathfinder Session.
strategies. At oikos, he
oikos Case Writing Academy
tools to build
their websites in
develops public relations Pathfinder Session Competition 25-29
and impact tools. aug
a common oikos
format. Two new oikos jun
PhD Fellows 12-16
Launch of may
Local Chapter 24-27
apr
websites feb 7-8 oikos Spring Meeting Cologne
mar
video on
jan Advisors Retreat
More than 80 students exchange their
oikos project ideas and experience, the oikos
website
NEW

learn about sustainable consumption

Advisors from Local Chapters and and production and participate in case
oikos International develop and studies on bio-plastic (with BASF) and
improve their coaching skills in water scarcity (with Henkel).
Ittingen, Switzerland.


 oikos International
students for sustainable
economics and management
Call for cases launched
in two tracks: on Social

NEW
oikos launches a call for papers Entrepreneurship (with

NEW
for a new academy inviting Ashoka) and on Corporate
PhD students and young faculty Sustainability.
that focus on sustainable
finance.
oikos Global Case
Kim Poldner starts her Writing
PhD Fellowship —­ to See topic page on Competition
study eco-fashion and
initiate oikos alumni
sustainable finance… dec
activities. oikos PRI Young Scholar 16-22
Finance Academy nov
New oikos
PhD Fellow sep oct oikos Winter School
28 students from 18 countries
sep 25-29 oikos
Student Award
videos on develop their sustainability
sep the oikos projects with experts and
website professional coaches at the
UniDiesel from
oikos Autumn Greece wins the University of Witten/Herdecke,
Germany.
Meeting Graz best Sustainable Campus
project. Campus Climate
Students develop their
Solutions from Florida
sustainability skills and
is awarded as the most
discuss future strategies for
innovative student project
higher education on applied
on Curricula Change.
corporate social responsibility
with Mostafa Tolba, former
director of the UN Environment
Programme and other experts.


 Local Chapters
In 2008, oikos Local Chapters organised 126
events, including conferences, panel discussions,
simulation games, seminars, surveys, lectures,
movie screenings and reading circles.
They increased awareness about sustainability in
around 22.000 students at their universities and
business schools. Some changed the curriculum
of their field of study, others focused on changing
their university as an organisation.
You will find extensive information about Local
Chapter projects on the website of our Chapters.
On this page we picked some examples to illustrate
how our Chapters make a difference.
Please visit the websites of the Local Chapters
or contact them personally by email:
www.oikos-international.org/chapters/
oikos Spring Meeting 2008, Cologne, Germany
oikos Cologne
A lecture series on development cooperation and sustainability
continuously attracts more than 100 students - the first course organised
by oikos Cologne integrated into the official University curriculum.
oikos London
In the Perspectivity Game — an interactive simulation game about
the problems of collective action — students of London School of
Economics wear the hats of national leaders and discuss trade-offs
between prosperity and environmental sustainability.
oikos Paris
oikos Monterrey Student survey with 600+ participants reveals
importance of sustainabilty for students at ESSEC
New Chapter starts its business school, including for choosing an employer.
activities in Mexico with round
tables on sustainability. oikos Reims
Students at Reims Management School get
involved in sustainability at the first oikos
Sustainable Development event, April 1-7.
Having co-founded oikos Bayreuth in the 1990’s I fully
endorse the ideas oikos stands for. Today, oikos is still
one of my most valuable professional networks.
Dr. Kai Hockerts, Associate Professor
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

 oikos Bayreuth Our Local Chapters
German and Chinese students developed a deeper understanding of sustainability in numbers
challenges in China during movie screenings, discussions and workshops with

Members

Students

Advisors
experts at the China Symposium at the University of Bayreuth on May 27-28.

reached
Chapter

Events
oikos Warsaw
Bayreuth 20 540 7 2
40 students explore ways to improve sustainability at the Warsaw Bratislava n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
School of Economics and in their daily life at the ‘Change your Brussels 30 150 6 3
thoughts. Change your world’ event on November 14-15. Clausthal 9 200 4 4
Cologne 25 279 15 6
Dhaka 70 800 6 2
oikos Prague
Friedrichshafen 3 30 3 2
On 1 April, 450 students discuss the implications of climate Graz 31 200 13 5
change with the Minister for Environment and other experts Hamburg 7 100 2 2
after the screening of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Johannesburg 6 85 2 2
London 90 230 5 1
oikos Graz Monterrey NEW 6 10 1 1
Oslo 23 500 22 3
oikos Graz raises awareness for sustainability Paris 25 600 4 3
with a newly designed oikos poster series. Prague 15 16650 4 4
Reims 26 400 5 2
oikos St.Gallen St.Gallen 85 250 15 9
80 participants design projects to deeper integrate Warsaw 15 520 4 2
sustainability into the curriculum of the University of St. Witten/Herdecke 13 70 8 3
Gallen at the oikos Conference on October 23-24. Total 2008 499 21614 126 59
Total 2007 404 12467 121 71
oikos Dhaka
30 students of BRAC University
approach the model of Social and Chapter Development

2008
Ecological Market Economy in a Newly founded Monterrey 2008
seminar organised by oikos Dhaka In accession Paderborn Dec 2008
in collaboration with the GTZ Belfast Jan 2009
Bangladesh.
oikos Johannesburg
The African Development
Partnership brings together
African student leaders in
sustainability with local
and international experts,
e.g. from the World Bank.


2009
Who knows what the future brings? What we already
know regarding our events, you find below.
We will announce all new developments on our
website and in our newsletter — join and be surprised:
oikos International
students for sustainable
economics and management

30 aug
www.oikos-international.org/get-involved/ 4 sep
jun
10th oikos PhD
26-29 Summer Academy
oikos Global Case
feb mar

NEW
For the tenth time,
Writing Competition PhD students gather
9-13 oikos Spring
feb oikos awards the best to advance their
new PhD Fellow Meeting Oslo teaching case within research with leading
Patricia Mesquita Participants discuss the newly established sustainability faculty.
oikos PRI Young
NEW

from Brazil joins and develop visions two tracks — Social

Scholars Finance oikos to do research for a sustainable Entrepreneurship (with
Academy on organisational European future. Ashoka) and Corporate
Young Scholars learning modes Sustainability.
advance their research and to support the
on responsible intra-organisational
investments. knowledge transfer.

Project Leadership Programme Project Development Fund

10 selected oikos members boost their
on-
See topic page going We continue our support for Local
on sustainable projects and work on company case Chapter projects — with ideas, feedback
finance… studies (provided by GLS Bank). and some money.


 outlook
nov
oct
oikos Winter
sep School
30 oikos Autumn
A new generation
sep Meeting
New oikos Fellows of student project
sep oikos members leaders is trained in
oikos Two new oikos Fellows discuss sustainability sustainability and
Student Award start their studies and exchange their
Presidents and at the University of project management
Deadline to apply experiences in skills by advancing
Advisors Retreat St.Gallen and take developing and running
for the 5th annual their own projects
Presidents and a lead on new oikos change projects at
oikos Student at the University of
advisors meet and projects. their universities.
Award. Witten/Herdecke.
discuss the best way
to fill their respective
roles and best work
together.


 fi
topic spotlight

future of nance
oikos and the

oikos PRI Developing future Panel talks on the

Young Scholars finance curricula financial crisis
research

teaching

Finance
Academy
This international PhD Academy in
cooperation with the UN Principles
for Responsible Investment (PRI)
provides a unique platform for
the encouragement of academic
research on responsible investment
issues.
The Academy gathers leading
academics, practitioners and
exceptional PhD students. An
outstanding faculty (Gordon L.
Clark, Oxford University; James
P. Hawley, St. Mary’s College,
United States; Nils Kok, Maastricht
University) join this one week event
in February 8-13, 2009.
dialogue
On February 13, oikos hosts the
Colloquium “Finance Education 2020”
to develop an impulse for the future of
finance education based on sustainbility
principles. Together with selected
thought leaders from the finance
industry, the participants of the oikos
PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy
meet in Zurich to develop concrete steps
for curriculum development. We also
intend to engage in follow-up projects
with the global PRI academic network.
Curricula for the future of finance also
are the topic of a case study sponsored
by the GLS Bank for the Project
Leadership Programme 2009. Results of
this project will be available in Autumn
2009.
oikos invited experts to discuss the financial
future on panel discussions at different oikos
Universities:
January 2008 and 2009: At the London
School of Economics, speakers from Citigroup,
Zouk Ventures, Five Talents, Planet Finance
and Sustainable Finance Ltd. etc. discuss the
emerging challenges in the financial world.
November 2008: During the Winter
School at the University of Witten/Herdecke,
Germany, Deutsche Bank meets the GLS Bank
to compare different approaches to sustainable
banking.
December 2008: oikos Cologne and oikos
Hamburg, in cooperation with the GLS Bank,
each attract over 100 people with panel
discussions on the financial future, featuring
speakers from academia, media and praxis.
Follow-up events are planned for 2009.

“ It is obvious that today’s teaching has not inspired people to act responsibly (...)
The financial crisis is a huge opportunity to pursue change at universities.
Katharina Beck, oikos President 2008, in Die Zeit, 16 December 2008
10
 you
Roberto Artavia
INCAE Business
School
Costa Rica
&us
alumni
In 20 years of oikos,
generations of students
have entered and left the
organisation to have an impact
Key-Note Speaker in the business, NGO or policy
world.
oikos St.Gallen
In 2009 we are launching an
Conference 2008 international oikos Alumni
Initiative in order to stay in
touch with our Alumni and
help them to continuously
make an impact for
sustainability.
This project is being launched
with decentralised Alumni
Meetings in several European
cities.
To stay in touch, contact
kim.poldner@
oikosinternational.org.
donors
oikos Circle of Donors
11
project
partners
To increase our outreach and impact,
we work together with leading
organisations in the sustainability field.
In our international projects in 2008,
we teamed up with Ashoka, the UN
PRI and the Swiss National Fund.
We are grateful to the Mercator
Foundation Switzerland, who enabled
us to considerably extend the oikos
PhD Fellowship Programme. We also
received project-specific funding and
content support from companies like
Henkel, IKEA, BASF, RWE and the
GLS Bank.
In 2009, we intend to strengthen our
existing partnerships and actively
develop new cooperations.
Interested?
Contact jost.hamschmidt@
oikosinternational.org.
students
The oikos Local Chapters
target students, and are
run by students. They put
their free time, energy
and creativity in designing
and running projects that
have an impact at their
universities.
If you are studying at a
university where a Local
Chapter exists, contact them
to get active at www.oikos-
international.org/chapters/.
If you are at a university
without Chapter,
contact kate.negacz@
oikosinternational.org on
opportunities to found one!
 get involved
?
?

whom
to contact
on what
…on oikos in 2009?
…on the Local Chapters?
…on the international projects?





Kate Negacz
oikos International, President 2009
kate.negacz@oikosinternational.org
phone +41 (0)71 224 2698
skype ‘katenegacz’
…on how to join existing oikos Local Chapters
or support their projects?
Each oikos Chapter has a contact person for the
communication with students and other people
interested in oikos. You can contact them directly or
first visit the Local Chapter websites:
www.oikos-international.org/chapters/

…on how to stay in touch as alumni?

…on PhD and faculty projects?
…on potential involvement as a donor? Kim Poldner | oikos PhD Fellow 2008-2011
kim.poldner@oikosinternational.org
Dr. Jost Hamschmidt
oikos Foundation, Managing Director
jost.hamschmidt@oikosinternational.org …on member coaching and training programmes?
phone +41 (0)71 224 2595 Nina Hug | oikos PhD Fellow 2008-2011
nina.hug@oikosinternational.org
…on oikos in 2008?
Katharina Beck …on the oikos Student Award and public relations?
oikos International, President 2008
Martin Herrndorf | oikos PhD Fellow 2008-2011
katharina.beck@oikosinternational.org
martin.herrndorf@oikosinternational.org

Concept, Content and Design: Katharina Beck (katharina.beck@oikosinternational.org) and Martin Herrndorf (martin.herrndorf@oikosinternational.org), Photos: Robert Stürmer, www.stuermer.com (2, 9, 11), oikos International (1, 6)

www.oikos-international.org 12