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Spring Meeting 2020
by oikos
Spring meeting 2020 took place in April. The oikos Baku team had a difficult task on their hands to make a big shift from onsite to online format in a relative short period of time and they managed to make not only an amazing but also the most inclusive Spring Meeting yet.
This year, oikos Virtual Spring Meeting 2020 explored the idea of Inclusive and Sustainable Development as it has evolved over time since the revolutions in the West, and in the developing countries since 1950s when development economics and development policy were officially born. Nowadays, in lots of societies, many people are excluded because of their gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, or poverty. The effects of such exclusion are staggering, deepening inequality across the world. Hence, Inclusive and Sustainable development ensures that all marginalized and excluded groups are stakeholders in development processes. It is defined as a policy that deliberately seeks to achieve concurrently a dynamic relationship between individuals and societies. The active pursuit of this process must, therefore, be the basic aim of development policy. In short, Inclusive development is development for all the representatives of the various societies as mentioned in the motto of Spring Meeting 2020 – Change Involves All!
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The first Spring Meeting to be planned and organized entirely online drawn a diverse crowd of participants from across the globe. In an interesting way they were all connected by two things—a worldwide lockdown and passion for sustainability. They had an opportunity to attend a variety of sessions, webinars and workshops by local and international speakers, touching many subjects like inclusion of people with disabilities, youth work etc. It even highlighted the correlation of climate change and inclusive development opening new perspectives to look at the trend and empower participants to embrace inclusivity.
The oiConference – Developments in Finance and Sustainability on April 3rd & 4th 2020 was a big success! The webinar brought together participants from all over the world, engaging professionals, academics, activists, and students in various discussions about developments in the financial world related to sustainability. The recordings of the sessions are now available on oikos International’s YouTube page.
