oikos Annual Report 2009

be informed. get involved. make a difference.

www.oikos-international.org

the oikos year 2009 plus an outlook on 2010

oikos International

students for sustainable economics and management

mission

at a glance

oikos strengthens action competence for sustainable development among tomorrow’s decision makers.

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welcome

Our highlights 2009 and an outlook on 2010

International 2009 Local Chapter

Therefore, we increase awareness about sustainability opportunities and

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.

How do our Local Chapters make a difference at their local universities and faculties?

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oikos & inclusive markets

How do we promote curricular change and advance academic research for inclusive markets?

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A selection of key events in 2010.

Join in!

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TOPIC SPOTLIGHT

outlook on 2010

How can you get involved — and work together with us for sustainable economics and management?

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

How did we make a difference in 2009?

get involved Learn more at www.oikos-international.org

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oikos & impact

challenges, focusing on students of management and economics, foster their ability not only to analyse long-term economic,

How do we empower student leaders, advance the oikos network and strengthen sustainability research?

kate says...

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Kate Negacz, President 2009

anna says...

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

2009

international NEW

NEW

oikos Spring Meeting Oslo

oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy

More than 80 members from 13 Local Chapters met in still snowy Oslo, Norway, to work, learn, party - and to make a difference!

oikos 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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Project Leadership Programme Nine oikos project leaders received intensive leadership training, providing them with essential qualities to implement their innovative ideas.

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Liudmila 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.

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.

The first oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy attracted applications from five continents. Fifteen selected scholars presented their research on inclusive business models, market development and sustainability at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP).

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nov

15-18

mar

oct

sep

26-29

8-13 feb

New PhD Fellows in St. Gallen

oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy

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sep

11-12

sep

17-24

oct

15-21

nov

oikos Winter School

NEW

Presidents and Advisors Retreat

Student Reporters at World Resources Forum

Chapters take first Climate Curricula Challenge

24 presidents and advisors met and discussed their roles in Local Chapters and future perspectives.

Ten 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.

Cologne, 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.

A new generation of student project leaders completed an exciting programme on sustainability and project management.

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dec oikos Student Entrepreneurship Award The Student Sustainability Initiative from Michigan and INEX from Vienna won the oikos Student Entrepreneurship Award 2009.

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local chapter 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.

2009 St. Gallen The 2009 oikos Model WTO attracts students from across the world to simulate the WTO minister trade negotiations in St. Gallen and Geneva.

Prague

Hamburg

Oslo London

Paderborn

Clausthal

Belfast

Opole

NEW

Zagreb

Cologne

Bayreuth

Reims Students at Reims Management School seduced a broad audience with an Ethical Fashion show.

Johannesburg

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NEW Sylhet

“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.

Brussels

Chapter in accession as of December 2009

New Delhi

Monrovia

NEW

Friedrichshafen

Constance

oikos Local Chapter

NEW

Graz

Witten/ Herdecke

For a long time oikos Brussels has been organising “responsible breakfasts”. The project is very successful and always attended by many students.

Warsaw Bratislava

Paris Ashland

Recycle fashion in Prague! oikos Prague initiated a lecture series and an exhibition on Life Cycle Assessment, attracting several thousands of visitors.

NEW

Kolkata Chennai

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Dhaka On the occasion of the World Environment Day, oikos Dhaka organised a talk show and a poster competition.

NEW Ahmedabad

NEW

More than 60 students attended an oikos discovery workshop on possibilities in implementing sustainability via curricular change and sustainable campus projects.

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Members of oikos Monrovia embarked on a project to promote sustainable Liberian cultural practices through innovations among students.

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local chapter

oikos Alumni network

Reflecting Local Chapter on

impact

members

people reached

events

advisors

50

300

1

4

Ashland

5

130

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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.

Bayreuth

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400

4

4

Belfast

15

75

13

5

Bratislava

6

160

7

3

Brussels

16

40

5

5

19

300

6

0

Do you think you can contribute? Contact the chapter at your university or set up a new one if it doesn’t exist yet!

Johannesburg

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.

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Ahmedabad

NEW

Budapest Chennai

5

30

0

1

Clausthal

19

300

6

0

Cologne

30

501

6

8

Constance

24

500

7

0

NEW

Dhaka

97

500

6

2

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Graz

18

3415

8

5

Hamburg

9

200

9

2

40

0

0

n.a.

5

0

0

3

80

200

6

0

100

3500

6

4

8

20

0

2

13

200

2

1

28

300

19

1

15

0

0

0

26

4000

5

0

Friedrichhafen

NEW

Kolkata London Monrovia

NEW

New Delhi Opole

NEW

NEW

Oslo Paderborn

NEW

members

people reached

events

advisors

Total 2009

863

35249

181

81

Prague

21

15000

17

4

Total 2008

499

21614

126

59

Reims

18

800

3

2

Total 2007

404

12467

121

71

St Gallen

80

2310

20

8

Sylhet

57

220

4

4

17

700

7

3

Witten Herdecke

19

1018

5

3

Zagreb

54

610

5

1

865

35729

182

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More Information: www.oikos-international.org/ chapters/intro-chapter-map.html

alumni

Paris

NEW

Warsaw

TOTAL

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taking off 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.

Join oikos Alumni at www.oikos-international.org/getinvolved/as-an-alumni.html

umni activities!

t kick-off for al In sum: 2009 provided a grea

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 9

2009

footprint oikos project

footprint

relax work

Autumn Meeting Presidents & Advisors Retreat

oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy

Project Leadership Programme

Winter School

WRF Student Reporters

Spring Meeting

PhD Summer Academy

oikos PRI Finance Academy

oikos 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.

The Project Leadership Program was an outstanding training for developing essential changemaker skills and realizing my project .

Julia Knauseder University of Graz, Austria

discuss listen I was very impressed by the high level of academic feedback on the work presented. You got together a very interesting group of scholars, which certainly set all participants to think outside of their regular ‘box’.

Prof. Dr. Nils Kok University of Maastricht, The Netherlands 10

A great place to gather motivation and academic expertise.

Aries Sutantoputra Monash University, Australia

An excellent learning experience: Amazing and inspiring speakers, mind-provoking issues, and a lot of fun!

Ana Stuermer Queen’s University Kingston, Canada

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 Perrot Ecole Polytechnique Paris, France 11

topic spotlight

topic spotlight Dialogues for inclusive markets

oikos and

inclusive

markets

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.

oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 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.

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 market research of oikos PhD Fellows Inclusive markets play a key role in the research projects of several oikos PhD Fellows at the University of St. Gallen.

More feedbacks, photos, papers and presentations:

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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.

Nina Hug, at the Center for Leadership and Values in Society, conducts research about accountability in NPO in developing countries that seek to help small and medium sized businesses in getting access to market opportunities in Europe. Her research, in Peru and Macedonia, covers communication of goals and progress across the different organisational layers.

Martin Herrndorf, at the Institute of Management, conducts research on multinational insurance companies that offer affordable microinsurance to the poor – for risks like death, disability or illness. His research, in headquarters and subsidiaries in Europe and Latin America, analyses the managerial approaches to building 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 working conditions in textile manufacturing. And Johannes Schwarzer, who started in September 2009, plans a project on international agricultural trade regimes, a key factor to provide economic opportunities to poor farmers in search for market opportunities.

More on the Fellows: www.oikos-international.org/ projects/fellowship/current13 fellows.html

2010

outlook oikos Winter School

Project Development Fund

A 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.

We continue our support for Local Chapter projects — with ideas, feedback and money.

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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!

Presidents and Advisors Retreat Presidents and advisors will meet and discuss their roles in Local Chapters and joint strategies for the future.

oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy

sep 3-4

Young Scholars advance research on mainstreaming responsible investment.

apr

jan 31 feb 5

25-28 mar

oikos Spring Meeting Reims Join us in Reims, learn about organic champagne and develop visions for sustainable marketing.

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aug 22-27 NEW

oikos PhD Fellowship Program

oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy

Do not miss the deadline for applications to the oikos PhD Fellowship Programme 20102013.

Join oikos, The Hub and WWF and advance your research on institutional Entrepreneurship and organizational change for Sustainability (Apply until April 15).

on-

going

oikos Autumn Meeting Project Leadership Programme 10 selected oikos members will boost their projects and work on selected case studies.

oikos 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.

oikos International

students for sustainable economics and management

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oct 30

7 -10 oct

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!

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…on PhD and faculty projects? …on potential involvement as a donor?

…on oikos in 2009?

Kate Negacz oikos International, President 2009 kate.negacz@oikosinternational.org skype ‘katenegacz’

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…on oikos in 2010? …on the Local Chapters? …0n the international projects?

Anna Ritschel oikos International, President 2010 anna.ritschel@oikosinternational.org skype ‘anna_ritschel’

whom to contact on what

…on cross-chapter projects?

Patricia Mesquita | oikos PhD Fellow patricia.mesquita@oikosinternational.org

…on member coaching and training?

Nina Hug | oikos PhD Fellow nina.hug@oikosinternational.org

Dr. Jost Hamschmidt oikos Foundation, Managing Director jost.hamschmidt@oikosinternational.org phone +41 (0)71 224 2595

…on the oikos academic network?

Johannes Schwarzer| oikos PhD Fellow johannes.schwarzer@oikosinternational.org …on how to stay in touch as alumni?

Kim Poldner | oikos PhD Fellow kim.poldner@oikosinternational.org

…on the oikos public relations?

Martin Herrndorf | oikos PhD Fellow martin.herrndorf@oikosinternational.org

…on the oikos case teaching initiative?

Liudmila Nazarkina | oikos PhD Fellow liudmila.nazarkina@oikosinternational.org

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