We are proud to announce the oikos FutureLab 2011, the first oikos event to gather our global family of student members, alumni, advisors, faculty, and partners. We are launching this new platform to provide not only a meeting point to share perspectives on the future, but also a "laboratory" to design initiatives and engage the oikos community in pursuing them. Find out more, or read on to find out how to get involved in other oikos student, academic and alumni projects in August.
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oikos Students
oikos Witten/Herdecke are busy organising the oikos Winter School 2011; apply now to join twenty student entrepreneurs for the intensive programme in Berlin from 6- 12 November! If you can't make it to Berlin, at least our internal network on ning has had a summer re-vamp to include a skills coaching Project Guru and a chapter management Toolbox. Also, oikos Hamburg was voted to host the Spring Meeting 2012 on the theme 'Sustainable Lifestyle', congratulations to Hamburg! Our Student Reporters for the World Resources Forum in Davos have already started their online training with social media expert Konstantina Zoehler.
oikos Academic
We have just announced two PhD Fellowship positions, particularly for students of Finance and Marketing, starting in Spring 2012 in St Gallen, Switzerland-spread the word! You may also have a look at the themes and participants at the upcoming oikos/UNDP Development Academy, and for excellent candidates we offer three places at the very first oikos International Economics Academy in Geneva. If you are attending the Academy of Management Conference in San Antonio, register for the oikos Case Writing Lab on Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship, hosted by Michael Pirson (Fordham University), and don't forget to submit your cases for the oikos Global Case Writing Competition 2012 by 28 October.
In July we recorded some new podcasts for our oikos Podcast series: Follow oikos PhD Fellow Kim Poldner's discussion with Prof. James A.F. Stoner (Fordham University) about whether Business Schools are cancerous to society, or dive into Research into Renewable Energies with Prof. Itai Sened (Washington University).
oikos Alumni
From 5-7 August, the Alumni Convenors Group will gather in Amsterdam to strategise how to develop the Alumni network. Students from oikos chapters will also join in order to exchange knowledge and ideas that could benefit both alumni activities and student projects. To get involved in oikos alumni activities or to join the Convenors Group, contact Kim (kim.poldner@oikosinternational.org).
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Christoph Biehl, University of St Andrews Christoph is doing a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance at the University of St Andrews. He has a background in Philosophy and Economics and is especially interested to connect environmental, social and governance
aspects to economic reasoning. A graduate of the third oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy 2011, Christoph started the process of founding an oikos Chapter at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His oikos academy experience was also a valuable asset during his internship at the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and he is now in charge of knowledge management within the PRI academic network. In addition, he developed an interest in the PRI's latest 'Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance', which target microfinance institutions. Consequently, he supports student projects like the Microfinance Society at the University of St Andrews.
Upcoming:
05 - 06 August: Alumni Convenors Meeting in Amsterdam
Alumni will meet in Amsterdam to strategise how to develop our alumni network.
13 August: Case Writing Lab at the Academy of Management Conference in San Antonio
Learn how to write and publish excellent cases on corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship
14 August: oikos Academic Alumni Reunion at AoM in San Antonio
Meet with our oikos, Ivey and ETH Academy alumni.
21-26 August: oikos/UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy in Bangalore
Topic: 'From Models to Markets for Inclusive Development'
28 August- 2 September: oikos Young Scholars International Economics Academy in Geneva, Switzerland
Topic: Management of Natural Resources and International Trade
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Meet oikos...
oikos PhD Fellow Tim Lehmann is spending August in Kenya doing field research on water markets for his PhD
oikos PhD Fellow alum Martin Herrndorf will be in Bangalore from 18-29 August, organising the oikos/UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy.
oikos International President Harriet Jackson and PhD Fellow Kim Poldner will be involved at the second meeting of the 50+20 project, a project to reset management education agenda led by deans and professors from Business Schools worldwide, in St Gallen from 29-30 August.
From 5-7 August, the Alumni Convenors Group will gather in Amsterdam to strategise how to develop the Alumni network. Students from oikos chapters will also join in order to exchange knowledge and ideas that could benefit both alumni activities and student projects. 
Christoph is doing a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance at the University of St Andrews. He has a background in Philosophy and Economics and is especially interested to connect environmental, social and governance