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Get to know our community.
At oikos, we have been coming together as a global community of student change agents for over 30 years. Spread in over 20 countires and 40 cities worldwide, we organize on campus to raise awareness for sustainability and transform our own education.
As we work towards the change we want to see in the world in our particular contexts, we explore and practice the leadership our world needs in the 21st century.
Active members from all around the world.
Countries
Chapters worldwide
Alumni
Our work is guided by our values, a sense of purpose and a strategic vision and mission.
These rather stable elements give us direction and emerge out of co-creation or consultation with our community.
Whereas values are key to how we want to relate with the world and each other (our ethics), our purpose is the why behind what we do and how we do it. The vision statement renders a destination on the map, whereas the mission elaborates in one sentence how we aim to get there.
All of these remain temporary & may change at any time when we sense the need for it.
We display honesty and respect towards anyone whom we come in contact with.
We make sole commitments that we can own, understand, keep and operate in a timely manner.
We encourage, support, and allow peers to grow in knowledge, skill, and scope of responsibility, without foregoing coordination.
We acknowledge that we are all representatives of oikos, we have a collective impact and avoid situations that go against our purpose.
discover our chapters
We are a global network students striving to make a change for sustainability. In our local groups, the chapters, we work together with university staff and our alumni to have an impact on campus & beyond.
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meet the international team
Find out who is behind oikos International, the umbrella organization of the oikos network that supports the chapters!
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from action to impact
Even after graduating, our oikos alumni belong to our community and keep on shaping business, NGOs, governments and academia towards sustainability.
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Meet our alumni
Even after graduating, our oikos alumni belong to our community and keep on shaping business, NGOs, governments and academia towards sustainability.
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Learn about our history
We are a global network students striving to make a change for sustainability. In our local groups, the chapters, we work together with university staff and our alumni to have an impact on campus & beyond.
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oikos is shaping the world in several ways and on several levels and our purpose is evolving over time and transferred into language together with our community.
Out of this co-creative process, our current understanding of our purpose should be represented from the multiple levels we act upon.
By following our passion through developing, co-creating and implementing a diverse multi-level, hands-on commitment, we, therefore, contribute actively to a planetary sustainable development with a focus on the societal leverages of higher education and economics.
oikos' purpose is to create spaces and support for human development on different, interlinked scales, so that humanity can thrive in alignment with nature.
oikos shapes mindsets.
By addressing sustainability change agents in university environments with tools and programs for self-development and awareness building, the organization enables and inspires its members to move forward on their learning journey and actively contribute to a sustainable world.
Programs like the LEAP support the shift of worldviews.
With over 45 active chapters in universities with business schools in 4 continents, the organization has a powerful outreach to the institutions that define and equal education.
Being organized in a self-managing structure, the single student-led chapters adopt their action portfolio to the local needs and address sustainability in curricular and extracurricular contexts.
On the international level, we support this work by calling the chapters and other stakeholders together to co-create the structures of tomorrow’s higher education.
As the subgroups and regions come together to form an international community, the influence of oikos also lies in the strong bonds created between nations, cultures, partners and student change agents all around the world.
The glue that holds the organization together: a passion to contribute to a higher cause, to make our world more sustainable by acting on it and collaborating towards the goal.