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Dear Reader
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Join us to celebrate the oikos 30th Anniversary from the 12th to the 14th of October in St. Gallen, Switzerland! Apply as soon as possible, since the last deadline for us to select new participants is August 18th. Read more about the Anniversary Celebration on our website.
In this Newsletter you can read about Leipzig University’s book project which will take a critical look at the predominant paradigm that economic growth is the promise to wealth. You can also find out about the LEAP Meeting, taking place from October 7th to the 11th in beautiful Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and how to join oikos LEAP Advanced Track. Read about oikos Fellow, Carlos Vargas, who taught at the Harvard Summer School a session on Sustainable Finance and Investment, where he reviewed in class two of the winning cases of the oikos Case Study Competition 2017. In our “30 seconds with” section, meet the oikos LEAP Participants.
Enjoy the August edition of our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to stay updated!
Happy Reading.
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oikos 30th Anniversary (12th to 14th October, 2017)
- During the Project Exchange, you will have a chance to display past and current projects as well as ideas that you hope to realize in the near future. This is your chance to present projects or initiaves and get feedback from the oikos community gathered for the FutureLab. If you want to submit, please use the form here.
- We want you to share past and recent photos of your oikos experience. It can be photos of your team, projects, or a group of oikees having fun. Be creative! You can also share as many photos as you wish. We hope to collect them all and showcase many of them on a screen during the FutureLab. You can find the form here.
Read more information about the 30th Anniversary events on our website.
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Apply to be a part of the oikos Executive Board 2018
We are looking for expert strategists who are passionate about changing the world. If you want to engage and develop your acumen and skills in a truly global setup while learning the ins and outs of international organization management, apply today to become an Executive Board (EB) member of oikos! Please send your application before September 1st, 2017.
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Book project by oikos Leipzig
Starting from a line of very successful speeches that we had in the last 10 months at Leipzig University, with up to 350 listeners, we are now planing to bring the contents from the lecture hall to the bookstores to share it with the world. The book will take a critical look at the predominant paradigm of economic growth as the promise to wealth for all people. After an analysis of the problematic status quo, the book will make space for alternative ideas, visions and utopias of a better world.
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Lead Yourself to Lead Others
“She leads a company. He leads a movement. They lead their lives. Actually, leading is most of the time related to others. When we speak about a leader, we think about someone bringing people together to help them achieve a common goal. Now ask someone “How to lead?”. You will notice that this question does not have one single answer, each one of us understands it differently…”. The LEAP participants of the advanced track 2016/2017 wrote an article summarizing their learning. Read the rest of the article here.
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LEAP (oikos Leadership Program) Registration is Open!
The LEAP Meeting will take place just before the 30th anniversary celebrations, from 7th - 11th of October, in a beautiful lake city in Switzeland, Kreuzlingen. Join oikos LEAP Advanced Track and invest in a 9-month intense leadership experience. You will learn to be more conscious of your own actions, better understand your own values and purpose, learn to truly listen to others and to yourself, and gain confidence to lead and inspire others to make a lasting impact in your community. Registration is open until 27th of August.
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oikos Alumni
 Get Involved!
The oikos alumni network offers plenty of opportunities for former oikos members! Reconnect with friends and meet new people who share common values. To get to know who the oikos alumni representative is for your region click 'read more'. If you want to become a representative in your city, check the call here. To stay up to date, join the Alumni LinkedIn group here.
oikos Academic
30 Seconds with...
 oikos LEAP Participants
“After participating in the LEAP programme, all of us feel really grateful for this opportunity to learn and develop ourselves. Besides learning about ourselves, we also learned so much from and about the others. The most intensive meeting was the second on-site meeting which took place in Hamburg. We felt connected to each other and were very much inspired by this special trustful atmosphere. Not just this meeting was enriching but also all the other parts in sum supported us to gain knowledge and experience about the importance of values, listening, communicating, consciousness and much more.”
LEAP is the leadership programme of oikos. It is designed to inspire young leaders to become more responsible in their decision making and to equip them with insights, knowledge and tools to do so. The advanced track is the most intensive of the three LEAP tracks. It combines individual as well as group learning and it challenges participants to reflect on themselves and their values at any time. All these activities together empower participants to develop their personality and leadership skills which can be directly implemented in oikos projects as well as in everybody’s personal & professional environments. Find more detailed information online.
LEAP participants
Interested to read more about LEAP experience, read the article and the testimonials of the participants. |
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Outlook
04 - 06 September: oikos Young Scholars Finance Academy.
Zurich, Switzerland
7 - 10 September: oikos CEE Regional Meeting 2017. Baku, Azerbaijan
7 - 11 October: LEAP Meeting 2017.
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
12 - 14 October: oikos 30th Anniversary Celebration.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
For more events check our website here
Meet oikos
15 - 16 November: Levan Pangani, ABIS Annual Colloquium 2017
Contribute
Let everyone know what you are up to and submit your news for the next newsletter to:
newsteam@oikos-international.org
For more oikos news keep an eye on our news articles here.
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