It is that time of the year when you want to pull up your socks, sip on some hot chocolate and wait for the FutureLab to unfold in all its glory. November is the month of diping temperatures and gathering of oikos members from across the world to converge at the FutureLab 2014 followed by the oikos Conference. The international management team is ready to welcome you in St. Gallen!
Furthermore, this month two new chapters have been welcomed into our network. Read more about them in this edition. Grab your favourite reading spot, get warm and cosy as you settle down to read what the November newsletter has to offer.
oikos Students
Executive Board Member 2015 Elections
New oikos Executive Board members will be elected during the Legislative Meeting, prior to the FutureLab 2014. Read More to see the Candidate Profiles.
FutureLab 2014 Countdown
The countdown to the oikos FutureLab 2014 has begun! Preparations are moving ahead at full speed, and we are expecting over 130 participants from 20 countries. To learn more about our latest agenda, sessions and speaker information, follow us @oikosworld #FL14 on Twitter or read more below.
Join the oikos Winter School 2015
Money and trade is connecting people all over the world. In everyday life, we do not question our modes of transaction through money and trade – we take them to be grown all naturally and as if there were no alternatives. But is that really the case? This is the question we are asking at the next oikos winter school with the theme, “X-Change – Sustainability through money and trade“.We invite you to be part of the 11th oikos Winter School from February 23-27th 2015. It would be the perfect platform for fostering novel ways of driving businesses & rethinking of heterodox outdated economic theory. Meet highly innovative startups that are doing socially and ecologically sustainable business. Discuss new money concepts with prominent scientists. Work in an international team of creative minds. This is your opportunity, grab it!
Welcoming New Chapters in our oikos Community in India and Sweden!
In October we were proud to welcome oikos Patiala and oikos Lund into our network.
oikos Patiala is the dynamism by the students of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, with a objective of promising sustainable future for its generation and many after. A major initiative of this chapter will be asserting feminist perspectives to sustainable development i.e. providing women with equal access to resources and their inclusion in the sustainable development process. A passionate group of students from the School of Econmics and Management introduced oikos Lund in the city of Köttbullar. After having consulted oikos Copenhagen, they are in turbo mode to start off with multiple projects. Amongst these, the local oikos Academy. On behalf of whole oikos network we wish oikos Patiala and oikos Lund good luck!
oikos Alumni
Alumni Gathering, Opole 2015
For the first time in its history oikos Opole organized an Alumni Meeting, which took place on 3-5 October 2014 at the training and recreation center "Suchy Bór". The main purpose of this meeting was to integrate former and present members, to share experiences and to galvanize every oikos Opole member. As a result they got the energy pumping for actions in the new academic year!
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oikos Academic
Participate in the oikos Case Writing Competition 2015
We are accepting submissions in three different competing tracks: Sustainable Finance, Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. Deadline is December 8, 2014.
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Nino Buliskeria
Dear oikees,
I am Nino Buliskeria, alumni of oikos Tbilisi. The experience of organizing the Summer School has been highly valuable for me. “Be Informed, Get Involved, Make a difference” has become the moto of my life ever science I joined the organization. Through oikos, I have gained knowledge in different fields, met talented and motivated people who want to come together to make a difference.
I have been involved both as an organizer and as a participant, in the various projects held by oikos. The sheer number and quality of projects offered by the different oikos chapters, makes this organization unique. It gives motivated students a chance to get valuable experience for their future career development and to meet new people with completely different backgrounds. This is the place where entirely different people united under one goal get together to generate new Ideas. One of the great examples being the Summer School 2014 held by oikos Tbilisi.
To me, the Summer School held in Tbilisi in August of 2014 was a unique chance to meet truly amazing participants and speakers. I also had a chance to familiarize them to Georgian culture, nature, hiking to the beautiful Gergetis Sameba (monastery) among many other activities. The academic activity with the theme –Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability in Emerging Marketswas filled with lectures and assignments. Students were given the real cases of Georgian entrepreneurs, they had a chance to meet them personally and visit their factories or firms. The goal was to help entrepreneurs with the problems they were facing at that moment in Georgia. Moreover, they did it and they did it well! I am happy that I was the part of the Summer School and I would have regretted the opportunities to study, enjoy and help.
Fortunately, oikos is offering all new opportunities which I would strongly recommend to go for! oikos winter school 2015 aims to have discussions over as important question as is – How can we create a more sustainable society through new designs of money and trade. We will have a chance to meet the Visionary theorists of new monetary orders and entrepreneurial change agents designing new trading practice, who will discuss their theories with participants. It sounds very interesting for me, as another chance to be informed, get involved and to make a difference.
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In October we were proud to welcome oikos Patiala and oikos Lund into our network.
We are accepting submissions in three different competing tracks: Sustainable Finance, Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. Deadline is December 8, 2014. 
Dear oikees,