This edition's students' section welcomes our new Chapter in Vancouver, remembers the outstanding Central European oikos gathering in Tbilisi and gives a first glimpse of the activities of President-elect Lenka's activities and handover process. We have new podcasts for you in our Academic section and have released the Call for Applications to the 2012 Finance Academy. Submit your project for the FutureLab impact fair and do invest at least 30 seconds to get to know Hana Kadlecova of oikos Prague.
oikos FutureLab
We are very much looking forward to welcoming the oikos family at the FutureLab 2012 on 19th and 20th of November, 2012 in St. Gallen, Switzerland! The FutureLab 2012 is designed to bring together our chapter members, our alumni, our faculty members and a broad array of partners supporting our projects to dream big and to create the impact we want to see in oikos. Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired, experience the oikos spirit and to reconnect with the oikos community! Meet exceptional changemakers such as Marina Kim (Ashoka U), Harriet Jackson (Impact Economy) and Jo Mackness (UC Berkeley/Net Impact). Check out our website to learn more and submit your project for the impact fair.
oikos Students
oikos CEE Meeting in Georgia
The first oikos regional meeting on the topic of “Sustainable Agritourism” was held in Tbilisi last month, gathering a number of oikees from Central Europe. Levan Pangani and his organizing team from oikos Tbilisi did an outstanding job in the organisation of the event, involving key players in sustainable agritourism in Georgia, such as the representatives of the Ministry of Economics and Sustainable Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Georgian agritourism practitioners. Apart from reaching out to oikees in the area, the event got excellent national media coverage and praise. Have a look at oikos Tbilisi's Nino Buliskeria's wrap-up of the event on our blog or simply click below to read more.
oikos at Tbilisi+35
oikos president-elect Lenka Parkanova represented oikos at the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education for Sustainable Development, Tbilisi, 6-7 September 2012. The conference was a platform for sharing experiences, good practices, new ideas and approaches aimed at laying the groundwork for global action on education and sustainable development. The representatives of governments from 98 countries, as well as international, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations adopted the Tbilisi Communiqué “EDUCATE TODAY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE“
New oikos chapter in Vancouver
It is a great pleasure to welcome the first Canadian oikos chapter, which is based at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. On behalf of the whole oikos family we wish them much success in their new projects!
President-elect Lenka blogging about her work
In August and September, Lenka Parkanova (former president of oikos Prague and newly elected President of oikos International) joined the St. Gallen office for the presidents handover. While the image is already suggestive of her first impressions, you should definitely follow her blog posts to learn more about this handover and what her work involves.
oikos Student Reporters in Beijing Follow the Student Reporter team at the World Resources Forum in Beijing, China between the 21st and 23rd October!
oikos Academic
oikos PRI Young Scholar Academy 2013 We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 5th oikos PRI Young Scholars Academy 2013 - Join us in the Swiss Alps from 20-25 January 2013 and meet our outstanding faculty: Ioannis Ioannou (London Business School), M’zali Bouchra, (University of Quebec at Montreal) and Peter Clarkson (University of Queensland, Australia). Submit your abstract proposal by November 30, 2012.
New oikos podcasts out We have produced a number of new exciting podcasts centering on topics discussed at this year's oikos UNDP Young Scholars Academy in Nairobi/Kenya, as well as our Young Scholars Organisations Academy held this summer. Enjoy the insights of Klaus Weber (Kellogs), Chris Yenkey (Chicago Booth), Eliada Nwosu (GSB Capetown) and others on our website.
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).
30 seconds with...
Hana Kadlecová, oikos Prague Chapter member and leader of the Czech group at the CEE meeting, Tbilisi
After some time spent by sitting at university and having lectures which should give me some information about tourism in general and in our country and after getting some experience in this field I started seriously doubting my choice to do my Masters in Tourism Trade. I could not not see this mainstream massive tourism as my future career. Then, approximately a year ago, I joined oikos Prague. I met this group of young and enthusiastic people who woke me up and induced me to think about many things differently. They made me start searching for a connection between tourism and sustainability. This year was very important and inspiring for me. Aside from a few debates that were organised by oikos Prague where I met a lot of interesting people I got the chance to lead our chapter at the first oikos regional meeting in Tbilisi on the topic of sustainable agritourism. Our aim was to introduce the current situation in agritourism in the Czech Republic to other oikos chapters. In order to do this properly, I contacted several institutions dealing with this topic, such as the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry for Regional Development and some NGOs that operate in agritourism on the local level. In addition to that I got in touch with People in Need and the Czech Charity, two Czech NGOs which are currently running several projects in agriculture in Georgia. Getting to know these people and having the chance to discuss my topic helped me a lot. I hope to cooperate with some of these organizations in the future.
This year in oikos made me sure that the concept of sustainability is very important in the further development of tourism. I decided to write my Master's thesis about sustainable tourism in my region and would like to apply this concept in my future professional life.
Outlook:
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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Meet oikos...
oikos President Dawid Wroblewski will be chairing the Forum 7 - The Ideal Green and Sustainable University at UNICA Student Conference 2012
oikos PhD Fellow Johannes Schwarzer will be at the 2nd "International Conference on Trade and Investment" in Mauritius from 24-26 October and at the "Empirical Investigations in International Trade" Conference in Santa Cruz/USA from 2-4 November.
oikos CEE Meeting in Georgia 
President-elect Lenka blogging about her work 
Hana Kadlecová, oikos Prague Chapter member and leader of the Czech group at the CEE meeting, Tbilisi
