oikos annual report 2009
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Find out all about our activities in 2009, plus a project footprint, a topic spotlight on inclusive markets and an outlook on 2010!TRANSCRIPT
the oikos year 2009plus an outlook on 2010
be informed. get involved.make a difference.
www.oikos-international.org
oikos Internationalstudents for sustainableeconomics and management
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oikos strengthens action
competence for sustainable
development among
tomorrow’s decision makers.
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Our highlights 2009 and an outlook on 2010
oikos & inclusive markets
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How do we promote curricular change and advance academic research for inclusive markets?
oikos &impact
A selection of key events in 2010. Join in!
get involved How can you get involved — and work together with us for sustainable economics and management?
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4-5How do we empower student leaders, advance the oikos network and strengthen sustainability research?
How do our Local Chapters make a difference at their local universities and faculties?
How did we make a difference in 2009?
International 2009
Local Chapter
Thank you for 2009!
It was a year full of changes for oikos. Many new Local Chapters have joined us and we have started new international projects. Empowered by great experiences in 2009, I wish you a lot of energy to make a difference!
Yours, Kate
Kate Negacz, President 2009
Welcome to oikos in 2010!
Be inspired by our upcoming activities and get involved - either as a student, alumni, faculty member or professional. Together, we can have an impact.
Yours, Anna
Anna Ritschel, President 2010
at a glance
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Learn more at www.oikos-international.org
outlook on 2010
welcome
Therefore, we
increase awareness about sustainability opportunities and
challenges, focusing on students of management and economics,
foster their ability not only to analyse long-term economic,
environmental and social trends, but also implement
sustainability-driven innovation,
create institutional support for these learning processes through
the integration of sustainability issues in research and teaching at
the world’s faculties for management and economics.
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kate says...
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oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academyoikos and the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative welcomed fifteen next generation of finance researchers in Switzerland at the 1st oikos PRI Young Scholars Academy on Responsible Investment.
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New PhD Fellows in St. GallenLiudmila Nazarkina and Johannes Schwarzer joined oikos as new PhD Fellows. Liudmila’s focus is on social entrepreneurship finance, while Johannes conducts his research in the field of international economic policy regimes.
Project Leadership Programme Nine oikos project leaders received intensive leadership training, providing them with essential qualities to implement their innovative ideas.
Presidents and Advisors Retreat24 presidents and advisors met and discussed their roles in Local Chapters and future perspectives.
Student Reporters at World Resources ForumTen selected international students were blogging live from the WRF 2009 to a global audience, providing content summaries, background stories, interviews and impressions from the event.
Chapters take first Climate Curricula ChallengeCologne, Witten/Herdecke, Graz, Paris and Sylhet chapters contributed to the International Day of Climate Action. During one week they took a stand for a safe climate future, by organising inspiring events at their universities.
oikos Winter School A new generation of student project leaders completed an exciting programme on sustainability and project management.
oikos Student Entrepreneurship AwardThe Student Sustainability Initiative from Michigan and INEX from Vienna won the oikos Student Entrepreneurship Award 2009.
oikos Autumn Meeting in Belfast oikos members were received by the Lord Mayor of Belfast to explore issues of Sustainability and Conflict Resolution with distinguished speakers.
oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development AcademyThe first oikos UNDP Young Scholars Develop-ment Academy attracted applications from five continents. Fifteen selected scholars presented their research on inclusive busi-ness models, market development and sus-tainability at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP).
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oikos Spring Meeting OsloMore than 80 members from 13 Local Chapters met in still snowy Oslo, Norway, to work, learn, party - and to make a difference!
Ashland
London
Friedrichshafen
Constance
Paderborn
Graz
HamburgOslo
Belfast
Paris
Witten/Herdecke
Cologne
Clausthal
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Opole Warsaw
Zagreb
Bratislava
Sylhet
Chennai
New Delhi
Kolkata
The 2009 oikos Model WTO attracts students from across the world to simulate the WTO minister trade negotiations in St. Gallen and Geneva.
In 2009, oikos Local Chapters organised 182 (2008:126) events, including conferences, panel discussions, simulation games, seminars, surveys, lectures, movie screenings and reading circles. They increased awareness about sustainability in around 35.000 students at their universities and management schools. Some changed the curriculum of their field of study, others focused on changing their university as an organisation. You will find extensive information about Local Chapter projects on the website of our Chapters (www.oikos-international.org/chapters). On this page we picked some examples to illustrate how oikos Local Chapters make a difference.
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local chapter 2009
Recycle fashion in Prague! oikos Prague initiated a lecture series and an exhibition on Life Cycle Assessment, attracting several thousands of visitors.
Prague
More than 60 students attended an oikos discovery workshop on possibilities in implementing sustainability via curricular change and sustainable campus projects.
Ahmedabad
“Keep cool” - an interactive simulation game attracted about 180 Participants in Bayreuth - Professors wore the hats of national leaders, aiming at reconciling climate protection with economic and political interests.
Bayreuth
For a long time oikos Brussels has been organising “responsible breakfasts”. The project is very successful and always attended by many students.
Brussels
Students at Reims Management School seduced a broad audience with an Ethical Fashion show.
Reims
Members of oikos Monrovia embarked on a project to promote sustainable Liberian cultural practices through innovations among students.
Monrovia
On the occasion of the World Environment Day, oikos Dhaka organised a talk show and a poster competition.
Dhaka
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In 2009, oikos Local Chapters organised 181 events, including conferences, panel discussions, simulation games, seminars, surveys, etc. They increased awareness of around 36,000 students of universities and business schools as to questions related to sustainability.
members people reached events advisors
Total 2009 863 35249 181 81
Total 2008 499 21614 126 59
Total 2007 404 12467 121 71
oikos Local Chapters are active in the field of sustainability in their respective universities – from Ahmedabad to Zagreb and from Johannesburg to Warsaw. Some have grown over the years into active players who shape their universities. Others have started recently with great energy and enthusiasm. The table gives a first insight into our chapters’ activity levels and shows the number of chapter members, how many events they have organised and how many people the chapters have reached. In addition to these events, other activities also take place: local chapters negotiate with university administrations, train their members and share their experiences in our global network.
Do you think you can contribute? Contact the chapter at your university or set up a new one if it doesn’t exist yet!
More Information: www.oikos-international.org/chapters/intro-chapter-map.html
local chapter
In 2009, we have started building our alumni network with the aim to strengthening the organisation and bringing alumni and oikos members closer together. Highlights included the oikos Alumni Day which took place in several locations, and the Shaping Change event, which brought together a group of alumni to work on projects and strategies for 2010.
We also started to report on alumni activities. Throughout the year local alumni activities have taken place and people have started online networking groups which attracted a large number of alumni and oikos members alike.
My professional career started with oikos. I attended an oikos Conference which made a huge difference for me. oikos gave me food for thought, access to pioneers and thought leaders, opportunities to develop my skills and the chance to create my own company for eco-accounting software. If you are passionate about sustainability, make oikos your home and thrive as a change agent!
Claude Siegenthaler, Associate Professor for Env. Strategy and Accounting, Hosei University, Tokyo
In 2005/06 I headed oikos London. We set up a sustainability consulting group, Sustainable Future. When we presented recommendations on how LSE can become more sustainable, the university’s management decided to work with us to implement our recommendations. Changing the way your university works may not be as hard as it seems. Try it!
Christina Gradl, Founder, Emergia institute
oikos Alumni network
In sum: 2009 provided a great kick-off for alumni activities!
taking offmembers people reached events advisors
Ahmedabad 50 300 1 4
Ashland 5 130 5 4
Bayreuth 11 400 4 4
Belfast 15 75 13 5
Bratislava 6 160 7 3
Brussels 16 40 5 5
Budapest 19 300 6 0
Chennai 5 30 0 1
Clausthal 19 300 6 0
Cologne 30 501 6 8
Constance 24 500 7 0
Dhaka 97 500 6 2
Friedrichhafen n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Graz 18 3415 8 5
Hamburg 9 200 9 2
Johannesburg 40 0 0 n.a.
Kolkata 5 0 0 3
London 80 200 6 0
Monrovia 100 3500 6 4
New Delhi 8 20 0 2
Opole 13 200 2 1
Oslo 28 300 19 1
Paderborn 15 0 0 0
Paris 26 4000 5 0
Prague 21 15000 17 4
Reims 18 800 3 2
St Gallen 80 2310 20 8
Sylhet 57 220 4 4
Warsaw 17 700 7 3
Witten Herdecke 19 1018 5 3
Zagreb 54 610 5 1
TOTAL 865 35729 182 79
Reflecting on Local Chapterimpact
alumni
Join oikos Alumni at
www.oikos-international.org/get-involved/as-an-alumni.html
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An excellent learning experience: Amazing and inspiring speakers, mind-provoking issues, and a lot of fun!
Ana StuermerQueen’s University Kingston, Canada
footprint 2009oikos project
footprintoikos has a clear mission: to promote sustainable economics and management in and through university education. While measuring our impact is challenging, you will find on this page a first attempt in measuring the “oikos footprint”. We manifest our impact by the number of people that we reach, as well as by the intensity of reach. Therefore, the width of each column shows the number of participants and the height of each coloured box – the hours spent on listening, discussing, working and relaxing during the events. Additional feedbacks by involved participants illustrate the character of selected projects.
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An amazing Academy combining academic rigor with a most relevant topic. I learnt a lot and was glad to meet with so many talented fellow graduate students!
Francois PerrotEcole Polytechnique Paris, France
A great place to gather motivation and academic expertise.
Aries SutantoputraMonash University, Australia
I was very impressed by the high level of academic feedback on the work pre-sented. You got together a very interest-ing group of scholars, which certainly set all participants to think outside of their regular ‘box’.
Prof. Dr. Nils Kok University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
The Project Leadership Program was an outstanding training for develop-ing essential changemaker skills and realizing my project .
Julia KnausederUniversity of Graz, Austria
oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy
More feedbacks, photos, papers and presentations:
www.oikos-international.org/ projects/development
Local chapters have also taken up the topic. oikos Cologne has conducted its second lecture series on development with a focus on public and private sector approaches. Backed by the university’s chair for international politics, bachelor candidates could earn credits in lectures of experts from universities, development organisations like OECD, GTZ, DEG and KfW and businesses like Allianz and Solarworld.
oikos has also grown its outreach into developing countries – accepting new chapters in several Indian cities, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata and New Delhi, as well as in Sylhet, Bangladesh and Monrovia, Liberia. The activities planned by these chapters respond to their local realities – among which poverty is one of the most visible and pressing ones – and bring poverty and development issues more visibly into our global network.
Inclusive markets play a key role in the research projects of several oikos PhD Fellows at the Univer-sity of St. Gallen.
Nina Hug, at the Center for Lead-ership and Values in Society, con-ducts research about accountabil-ity in NPO in developing countries that seek to help small and me-dium sized businesses in getting access to market opportunities in Europe. Her research, in Peru and Macedonia, covers communica-tion of goals and progress across the different organisational layers.
Martin Herrndorf, at the Insti-tute of Management, conducts re-search on multinational insurance companies that offer affordable microinsurance to the poor – for risks like death, disability or ill-ness. His research, in headquar-ters and subsidiaries in Europe and Latin America, analyses the managerial approaches to build-ing networks to reach low-income communities.
Other oikos PhD Fellows also do poverty related research. Kim Poldner’s focus is on eco-fashion
– which includes fair prices for farmers in developing countries, reduced health impact from use of chemicals and improved work-ing conditions in textile manufac-turing. And Johannes Schwarzer, who started in September 2009, plans a project on international agricultural trade regimes, a key factor to provide economic oppor-tunities to poor farmers in search for market opportunities.
Inclusive market research of oikos PhD Fellows
Dialogues for inclusive marketsoikos and
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topic spotlight
To reduce poverty and raise the living standards of billions of poor people globally is a cornerstone of sustainable development and requires joint efforts by public and private actors. To support these efforts, oikos advances academic research at the intersection of business, development and the environment, organises hands-on dialogues and creates awareness and action competences among future managers.
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The international one-week Academy gathered fifteen selected PhD students and young scholars working on inclusive business models, market development and sustainability at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) from leading international universities. An outstanding faculty (Ana Maria Peredo, U. Vicoria; Jonathan Doh, Villanova; Ashok Som, ESSEC Paris) joined the event. A practitioner day on strategies to fund inclusive businesses was organised in collaboration with responsAbility, a leading international social investor providing funding to microfinance institutions. We will continue the oikos UNDP collaboration in 2010.
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More on the Fellows:
www.oikos-international.org/projects/fellowship/current-fellows.html
Keep involved by subscribing to our newsletter! www.oikos-international.org/get-involved
on-going
Project Development FundWe continue our support for Local Chapter projects — with ideas, feedback and money.
Project Leadership Programme10 selected oikos members will boost their projects and work on selected case studies.
Presidents and Advisors RetreatPresidents and advisors will meet and discuss their roles in Local Chapters and joint strategies for
the future.
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oikos Winter SchoolA new generation of student project leaders will be trained in sustainability and project management skills by advancing their own projects at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
oikos Global Case Writing Competition 2011 Submit a teaching case on Social Entrepreneurship or Corporate Sustainability, get written feedback from international experts and receive the prize of CHF 5000.-. Stay tuned for the submissions deadline!
oikos Autumn Meetingoikos Warsaw will host the Autumn Meeting at Warsaw School of Economics. Share your projects, meet like-minded fellow students and learn how to increase your impact.
Who knows what the futue brings? What we know about selected key events in 2010, you will find below.
Be informed, get involved, make a difference!
nov
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oct 30oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance AcademyYoung Scholars advance research on mainstreaming responsible investment.
oikos Spring Meeting ReimsJoin us in Reims, learn about organic champagne and develop visions for sustainable marketing.
oikos PhD Fellowship ProgramDo not miss the deadline for applications to the oikos PhD Fellowship Programme 2010-2013.
oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship AcademyJoin oikos, The Hub and WWF and advance your research on institutional Entrepreneurship and organizational change for Sustainability (Apply until April 15).
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oikos Internationalstudents for sustainableeconomics and management
?whom
to contact on what
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…on oikos in 2010?…on the Local Chapters?…0n the international projects?Anna Ritscheloikos International, President [email protected] ‘anna_ritschel’
…on oikos in 2009? Kate Negaczoikos International, President [email protected] ‘katenegacz’
…on cross-chapter projects?Patricia Mesquita | oikos PhD [email protected]
…on member coaching and training?Nina Hug | oikos PhD [email protected]
…on PhD and faculty projects?…on potential involvement as a donor?
Dr. Jost Hamschmidtoikos Foundation, Managing Director
[email protected] +41 (0)71 224 2595
…on the oikos academic network?Johannes Schwarzer| oikos PhD Fellow
…on how to stay in touch as alumni?Kim Poldner | oikos PhD Fellow
…on the oikos public relations?Martin Herrndorf | oikos PhD Fellow
…on the oikos case teaching initiative?Liudmila Nazarkina | oikos PhD Fellow
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