With the start of a new year, we bring you new opportunities to reconnect with your oikos roots. Looking ahead, we are gearing towards our first big meeting of the year - the oikos Spring Meeting in Maastricht. On the academic side, we are excited to announce the call for papers for the 4th oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy. Also, don’t forget to spend 30 seconds with Pranav Gajjar, our dynamic Executive Board member from Ahmedabad, India, who is re-defining waste and papermaking.
oikos Students
Get ready for the Spring Meeting 2013!
Preparations for the oikos Spring Meeting in Maastricht on sustainable investment is getting to the last phase. From March 14 -17, the oikos community will gather to discuss microfinance, ethical banking, and corporate governance with academics and practitioners. oikos chapters will have an exciting chance to develop and improve their projects, learn from each other, and shape the direction of oikos.
Kick-start your meaningful career with MMC and oikos Do you want to have a satisfying career with a positive social and environmental impact? Write a blog post and win 1-hour with a professional coach as well as a 1-year access to the More than Money Careers online service for your chapter.
EB Strategy Meeting The oikos Executive Board members and the oikos International President met in Warsaw to strategize and come up with new impact driven initiatives. Going deep into the organizational structure and governance helped the whole team to identify the main challenges and goals for the upcoming year as well as dividing particular roles and tasks.
New oikos Chapters, Lausanne and Reutlingen We now have two new spots on the oikos chapters’ map. The oikos Executive Board gave the green light to the students of HEC Lausanne and Reutlingen University and welcomed the 43rd and the 44th Local Chapter in the oikos Community. Lausanne's priority for next semester is collaborating with local entrepreneurs while Reutlingen intends to influence consumption patterns of their University fellows. On behalf of the whole oikos family, we wish them much success in their new projects!
Student Reporters at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos
Student Reporter with their team of six editors and staff writers were at the WEF Davos with over 2,000 heads of state, business executives, journalists, academics and civil society representatives to discuss today’s most pressing global issues. Get a recap of what happened at the WEF´s Annual Meeting in Davos from Student Reporter.
oikos Academic
We are happy to announce the call for papers for the oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy - join us in the Swiss Alps from August 25 – 30, 2013, for a 5-day intensive discussion on “Creating Hybrid Ventures: Legitimacy and Sustainability Challenges in Social Entrepreneurship”. The submission deadline is on April 15, 2013. The event aims at advancing academic research, building networks across disciplinary boundaries, and preparing the ground for research relevant for theory and practice. Participants will also have the opportunity to apply their insights and skills in an Ashoka Challenge Lab in cooperation with The Hub (http://zurich.the-hub.net/).
30 seconds with...
Pranav Gajjar, oikos Ahmedabad alumni on the “theory of doing” The ‘theory of doing’ tries to encompass all aspects of present-day as well as future crisis. It identifies the crisis to be a moral one rather than economic or climatic, and its ambition is to involve people to take charge. The intention of this exercise is to initiate intuitive reuse of waste - tangible as well as intangible waste, such as wastage of time, data, human effort etc. Hence, we set up a Hand Papermaking Studio at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India, where I am an architecture student. This studio, which we call ‘Clay Club’, became our backyard laboratory to experiment with our ‘ideas of doing’. One initiative, which is of particular interest to us, is our collaboration with Manav Kalyan Trust, in Navsari (India). The institute is a school for individuals with varied disabilities. We conducted our first hand papermaking workshop with them in April 2012 where we observed that their work was far superior to the regular handmade paper available. The idea is to initiate them into producing handmade paper on a commercial scale to make an honest living, which will create livelihood opportunities for ‘distinctly enabled individuals’. The initiative is successful and is ready to be replicated. The thought is to instill pride and dignity, by making them take charge of their lives in its entirety.
Outlook
14 - 17 March, 2013: oikos Spring Meeting in Maastricht Save the date for the traditional gathering of oikees in the spring.
25 – 30 August, 2013: oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy
On “Creating Hybrid Ventures: Legitimacy and Sustainability Challenges in Social Entrepreneurship”
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Lenka Parkanova, the oikos International President, and Fabienne Meienberger, the Board Member of oikos St. Gallen, are going to introduce oikos activities at HSG alumni gathering on 14th of February.
Do you want to have a satisfying career with a positive social and environmental
The oikos Executive Board members and the oikos International President met in Warsaw to strategize and come up with new impact driven initiatives. Going deep into the organizational structure and governance helped the whole team to identify the main challenges and goals for the upcoming year as well as dividing particular roles and tasks.
We now have two new spots on the oikos chapters’ map. The oikos Executive Board gave the green light to the students of HEC Lausanne and Reutlingen University and welcomed the 43rd and the 44th Local Chapter in the oikos Community. Lausanne's priority for next semester is collaborating with local entrepreneurs while Reutlingen intends to influence consumption patterns of their University fellows. On behalf of the whole oikos family, we wish them much success in their new projects!
The ‘theory of doing’ tries to encompass all aspects of present-day as well as future crisis. It identifies the crisis to be a moral one rather than economic or climatic, and its ambition is to involve people to take charge. The intention of this exercise is to initiate intuitive reuse of waste - tangible as well as intangible waste, such as wastage of time, data, human effort etc. Hence, we set up a Hand Papermaking Studio at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India, where I am an architecture student. This studio, which we call ‘Clay Club’, became our backyard laboratory to experiment with our ‘ideas of doing’. One initiative, which is of particular interest to us, is our collaboration with Manav Kalyan Trust, in Navsari (India). The institute is a school for individuals with varied disabilities. We conducted our first hand papermaking workshop with them in April 2012 where we observed that their work was far superior to the regular handmade paper available. The idea is to initiate them into producing handmade paper on a commercial scale to make an honest living, which will create livelihood opportunities for ‘distinctly enabled individuals’. The initiative is successful and is ready to be replicated. The thought is to instill pride and dignity, by making them take charge of their lives in its entirety. 