This issue awaits you with a wrap-up of the oikos Spring Meeting in Barcelona, three outstanding candiates for the next oikos presidency, our latest UK chapter in Newcastle and 30 seconds with Tilmann Liebert, laureate of this year's oikos Sustainability Thesis Award. The Academic section reminds you of three upcoming Academy application deadlines and introduces two new cases in our online case collection. Enjoy!
oikos Students
oikos Spring Meeting This year's annual meeting of oikos members, taking place in Barcelona on 29th of March till 1st of April gathered a record number of 102 participants, representatives from 21 oikos Chapters, with 17 oikos Chapter Presidents.The focus of the Spring Meeting, organized by students from ESADE Barcelona, was on Sustainable Mobility. Among other content it offered an action-learning cycling trip through Barcelona, a site visit at the local SEAT production site for electric cars and peer to peer Workshops from students for students to share experiences about replicable and impact-driven student projects. Check out our facebook page for pictures of the event!
oikos President
Three presidential candidates were given the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the oikos electorate during the Spring Meeting in Barcelona. All three candidates made outstanding cases and the race promises to be a close one, as oikies currently seem to be equally divided among their favorite candidates. Check out their profiles on our website and see for yourself whom you would like to have in office for the near future!
oikos Newcastle - New oikos Chapter A big welcome to our latest UK chapter - oikos Newcastle. A passionate bunch of students at Newcastle University Business School recently joined our efforts to further sustainability in teahcing and business, strengthening our presence in the UK.
oikos Paris - Cosm'Ethic Day Last month, oikos Paris organised a forum presenting fashion and cosmetics brands proposing natural and organic products. The aim was to show to the public that buying “organic” does not only mean taking care of the environment but also taking care of themselves and their health… with style and glamour!
oikos St. Gallen - oikos Sustainability Thesis Award 2012
This year's Award goes to Tilmann Liebert for his Masters thesis, investigating how the level of competitiveness of a country's renewable energy technology (RET) sector relates to the level of ambition of its government's climate policy.
oikos Student Reporters
Check out the posts written and interviews conducted by the student reporters at the World Water Forum, 11.-17. March, Marseille via the SR blog!
oikos Online Case Collection We have added two new cases to our online case collection: Lululemon and Portland Roasting Company. You can download free case copies and, if you are a faculty member, you can request a free teaching note by sending us an email to freecase@oikosinternational.org.
30 seconds with...
Tilmann Liebert, Sustainability Consultant at International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and winner of the oikos Sustainability Award 2012
What an honor to receive this year's oikos Sustainability Award for my thesis 'Competitiveness of Renewable Energies in Climate Change Policy: Explaining Post-Kyoto Emission Reduction Commitments'! It was an intense and interesting project which I started in Boston under the University of St. Gallen-Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy dual MA programme, and finished as a fellow at UNEP's Green Economy Initiative. My main finding is that the level of competitiveness of countries’ renewables sectors has an impact on the level of ambition of respective governments’ climate policies. This implies that strengthening cleantech sectors' competitiveness would lead to more ambitious domestic and international climate policies.
I had the pleasure of being active in oikos St. Gallen during my BA studies, helping to realize several exciting oikos Conferences and Model WTOs.
Now I am engaged in projects at IISD, Geneva, focusing on renewable energy policy and advisory services to emerging economies on sustainable investment and industrial parks. For the future, I hope to drive projects implementing sustainable development through innovative partnerships and networks - definitely also with other (ex-)oikies!
Outlook:
15 - 20 April 2012: oikos Model WTO
72 international students will gather and simulate WTO negotiations on the topic of Regionalism & Sustainable Trade in the authentic setting of the WTO Secretariat by Lake Geneva.
15 May 2012 - Application Deadline: oikos International Economics Academy
Join us in August in Geneva to discuss Dynamics of Migration with first class faculty in a stimulating setting.
28 June 2012: oikos Faculty Symposium Our professional development workshops led by leading researchers in their fields will be held during this year's GRONEN Conference at Euromed Management School in Marseille, Southern France.
26-31 August 2012: oikos Entrepreneurship Academy On "Collaborative Entrepreneurship and Innovation"
26-31 August 2012: oikos Organisation Academy
On "Social Innovation and Organizational Impact"
19-20 November 2012: Save the Date for the oikos FutureLab
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Meet oikos...
oikos Academic Director Jost Hamschmidt was invited to speak at the Network for Business Sustainability's workshop entitled "Improving the Global Reach and Impact of Sustainability Centers" taking place at Ivy School of Business in London/Canada from 16 to 18 April 2012.
This year's annual meeting of oikos members, taking place in Barcelona on 29th of March till 1st of April gathered a record number of 102 participants, representatives from 21 oikos Chapters, with 17 oikos Chapter Presidents.The focus of the Spring Meeting, organized by students from ESADE Barcelona, was on Sustainable Mobility. Among other content it offered an action-learning cycling trip through Barcelona, a site visit at the local SEAT production site for electric cars and peer to peer Workshops from students for students to share experiences about replicable and impact-driven student projects. 
oikos Newcastle - New oikos Chapter
