Summer Slump? Not at oikos! Our Student Reporters just got back from Rio+20 and share their fascinating accounts of that mega-conference on their blog for your enjoyment. Also, find out who won this year's Student Leadership Award, apply to participate in this year's Winter School, register to meet oikos at the upcoming Academy of Management in Boston and get to know Ilke Schaart, President of our first North-American chapter at UPenn and Rio+20 Student Reporter returnee!
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oikos Student Reporters back from Rio!
Twelve oikos Student Reporters from all over the world have been blogging live from the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development last month. Check out their posts for a unique view behind the conference curtains, covering everything from closed-door negotiations insights to meetings with inspiring personalities. Our reporters have been cross-posted at several universities, including Pennsylvania, Yale, Michigan and St.Gallen.
oikos & ISCN Student Leadership Award 2012
...and the winner is: The Maastricht University Green Office! The jury found that this project ‘promotes sustainability as a topic of active concern among students, staff and faculty, and advances a self-perpetuating process of organizational transition towards a greener campus’. Read more to learn more about the project and its ambitions to expand throughout Europe!
oikos Winterschool
The oikos Winterschool has a long tradition of coaching outstanding beginning social entrepreneurs in its one-week set-up. Apply until the end of July to participate in this year's Winterschool "Social Innovation Lab: Local Innovation for Global Impact", taking place 3 - 11 November 2012 in Germany.
More and more oikees worldwide!
We are delighted to welcome two new chapters to our network. Students at Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany and Vellore Institute of Technology in India are taking up the oikos mission to make a difference in education at their institutions. Welcome!
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oikos at GRONEN 2012
We are happy to look back to a rewarding GRONEN 2012 conference, where oikos hosted a well received action-learning experience in the organic vineyards of Chateau Duvivier. We also hosted the oikos faculty symposium, where we actually identified ways to promote action-based learning at management schools.
oikos at AoM 2012
Together with swissnex we are very happy to invite our academic alumni to a reception at the Academy of Management Conference in Boston – enjoy some organic wine & food in good company at SwissNex Boston on Monday, August 6 – space is limited to 50 attendees – so hurry up to register!
We are also happy to announce a Professional Development Workshop on case writing in the field of inclusive markets at the upcoming academy of Management conference, facilitated by oikos alumnus Michael Pirson. Join us in Boston!
oikos Young Scholar Academies
If you are interested in fresh sustainability research, you may screen the participants of our upcoming young scholars academies in Development, Entrepreneurship & Organizational theory.
Finally, check our academic pages for upcoming conferences and job opportunities.
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Ilke Schaart, President of oikos Penn
As President of oikos Penn, the first North American chapter of the oikos international network, I am happy to promote the cause in raising awareness in sustainability, management and economics. Having had the opportunity to travel and work in the field of International Development I was able to have unique experiences which formed my personal goals for the future. These experiences were humbling, but they also quite vividly depicted how vulnerable our biodiversity and environment really is. This led me to a career and extra curricular activities focused on sustainability management at the University of Pennsylvania.
I got in touch with oikos through Caroline D’Angelo (editor at studentreporter.org), and my fellow student Aishwarya Nair and I thought that an oikos chapter at Penn would be a great addition to the already booming sustainability initiatives on campus. The Penn campus hosts a myriad of student activities which are focused on local levels, regional levels, and on specific projects. However, none had that international or global stretch that is needed nowadays. Following the Student Reporter experience at the World Water Forum 6 in Marseille, the oikos Penn network began to expand.
In the future, oikos Penn will grow some roots by raising awareness and trying to recruit fellow North American institutions. We aim to establish and continue an oikos Penn Student Reporter team for local or national conferences and strongly encourage the participation of Penn students in oikos projects such as the case-writing competition. We hope to bring to oikos the long stride over to the other side of the world, and we hope they will help us stretch our arms around the globe, such as we recently did at the Rio+20 summit. These are truly great partnerships and collaborations that can help raise awareness on issues that matter.
Outlook:
1 August 2012: Deadline for oikos Winter School Applications Local Innovations for Global Impact
3 August 2012: oikos Academic Alumni Reunion at AoM/Boston Awesome event to meet up with our oikos, Ivey, ETH Academy alumni. First-come-first-served, register now; it's quick and easy!
6 August 2012: Case Writing Lab at the Academy of Management A great opportunity for anybody interested in case writing and inclusive markets to learn from experienced case writers and prize winning case authors.
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"
7-9 September 2012: oikos CEE Regional Meeting
On Sustainable Agritourism, to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia.
19-20 November 2012: Save the Date for the oikos FutureLab On "Impact: Think - Act - Share", to be held in St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Dawid Wroblewski will be a group discussion leader on the topic 'Ideal Green and Sustainable University' at the UNICA Student Conference 2012, held on 10-13 October, at University of Oslo.
oikos & ISCN Student Leadership Award 2012
Ilke Schaart, President of oikos Penn
