As the leaves are starting to fall, we digest the summer season of oikos Academies and we are getting in gear for our Autumn inititatives. Find out how to get involved in oikos projects in September and join us at the oikos FutureLab!
oikos FutureLab
Register now for the oikos FutureLab 2012 (Nov. 19/20)! oikos members and outstanding speakers from 3 continents will share their experience on developing impact-driven initiatives for a sustainable future. We are very happy to welcome distinguished speakers such as Marina Kim (Ashoka U), Anil Gupta (IIM Ahmedabad) and oikos members from across the world. Present your initiative and join us in Switzerland!
oikos Students
oikos Winter School 2012, apply now!
The oikos Winter School 2012 “Local innovation for global Impact” will be held from 3rd to 11th November in the Ruhr area: Germany’s post-industrial region.
Young change makers and leading entrepreneurs from all over the world will work together on their projects, working towards answering the question “How to create a sustainable future?”. Participants will gain knowledge on Post-Growth Economy, Global Responsibility and Urbanization&Communities, scale up their ideas and all together face a City Development Challenge. Apply with your project until the 15th of September!
oikos CEE Meeting oikos Chapters from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been meeting from 7 – 9 September to dive into the topic of Sustainable Agritourism. The event was hosted by oikos Tbilisi and their invitation, although focusing on CEE, extended also to all other Chapters from the oikos network. A wrap-up and pictures to follow soon!
Student Reporters at the FutureLab 2012 & in Beijing We are happy to invite business and economics students (Bachelor to PhD) from around the world to take part in the Student Reporter coaching programme and live blogging at the oikos FutureLab 2012 - Apply by September 30! A new student reporter team prepares for Beijing-China. The team is led by Aishwarya Nair, a Master of Science student at the University of Pennsylvania, and by Claudio Ruch, a student at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. See the profiles of our new team on the Student Reporter website.
oikos Academic
New Simulation Games Library Our new Simulation Games Library grew out of a professional development workshop that oikos organised at the GRONEN 2012 conference. Many thanks to Magali Delmas (University of California), Charles Corbett (University of California) and Elmar Friedrich (University of St. Gallen) for co-organising this workshop and presenting their best-practice simulation games. If you recommend additional simulation games please do not hesitate to contact us and share your experience!
oikos Young Scholar Academies
Four Academies have taken place last month, gathering faculty and promising young researchers from all over the world around themes like Social Innovation, Collaborative Entrepreneurship, Migration and Culture & Markets. Feedbacks from faculty and participants were terrific. Check out pictures and comments by participating young scholars in our Development, Economics, Entrepreneurship & Organizational theory academies. We also produced a number of inspiring podcasts: Listen e.g. to Klaus Weber (Kellog School of Management) on how to take young scholars out of theirs comfort zones...
Also, make sure to drop by our academic pages on our website from time to time for upcoming conferences and job opportunities.
oikos Case Writing Competition The call for cases for the oikos Case Writing Competition 2013 has been launched and we would like to to invite you to submit your new cases on Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship. The deadline for submission is October 26th, 2012. The first prize in each track (Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship) will be 5000 Swiss Francs (2nd: CHF 2000 and 3rd: CHF 1000).
More free cases at oikos Case Collection
We have added several more exciting cases in the oikos free case collection! Protected under Creative Commons license, these cases are free to use in a classroom. Have a look at prize-winning cases on Lululemon, BetterPlace and Social Entrepreneurship. If you are a faculty member, you can request a free teaching note for these cases by sending us an email.
oikos Case Quarterly
The latest issue of the oikos Case Quarterly is out! This summer issue focuses on Cross-Sector Partnerships and we are featuring four outstanding cases on that topic.
30 seconds with...
Levan Pangani, President of oikos Tbilisi and coordinator of the CEE meeting
As a President of oikos Tbilisi, I am very pleased to have the opportunity of making my own contribution in promoting sustainability across Georgia. I’m a fourth year student at Tbilisi State University, Georgia, majoring in macroeconomics. I am happy that I am the one who had a chance to found oikos Tbilisi and organize a lot of remarkable projects through it.
As for the oikos Tbilisi projects, I can say that we are already quite experienced in organizing scientific conferences, as we lead annual conferences and involve more than 1000 students. With photo competitions, seminars, workshops, greening days, trainings and other interesting activities we try to make a contribution for the promotion of sustainability change and support economic growth.
Besides, oikos Tbilisi is proud of its innovative grant projects financed by Open Society Foundation, a Higher Education Support Programme. Only a few days ago, we have a finished 12 months long project about Examination of Higher Education in Georgia. We just started the second project about the youth organization’s role and its involvement in university life. We will be employing about 30 000 students in it across Georgia, who will be doing research, work on youth websites and many other activities. Thus, I believe that these projects are raising students’ awareness and help developing their sustainable development mindset.
It is worth to mention that I’ve decided to found a new structural unit of oikos Tbilisi: oikos Junior. It’s the first time that high school students are involved in oikos. They work on very interesting projects and try to promote sustainability among future change makers.
Finally, I would like to emphasize the first oikos CEE meeting, which is being held on 7-9 September. The objective of the oikos CEE Regional Meeting 2012 is to gather an international community of oikos members with the aim of sharing ideas and perspectives on sustainable agritourism and to enable the exchange of experiences from locally organised projects. It is time to bring all of us together and accelerate sustainability in agritourism.
Outlook:
7-9 September 2012: oikos CEE Regional MeetingOn Sustainable Agritourism, to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia.
15 September 2012: Application Deadline oikos Winter School 2012
"Local Innovation for global Impact"
26 October 2012: oikos Case Writing Competition Deadline Submit your case on Corporate Social Responsibility or Social Entrepreneurship and win up to 5000 SFr.
17-18 November: Chapter Presidents Meeting in Rorschach/CH
19-20 November 2012:
oikos FutureLab "Impact: Think - Act - Share" St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Lenka Parkanova and Nora Locskai will be representing oikos at the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education for Sustainable Development – Tbilisi+35 in September.
oikos Winter School 2012, apply now! 
Levan Pangani, President of oikos Tbilisi and coordinator of the CEE meeting 
