oikos Model WTO

Do you have an interest in current affairs in international trade and would you like to experience the process of international negotiations? Then the Model WTO 2015 could be the right event for you. The topic for the coming year’s edition will be “Mega-regionals – A challenge for the post-Bali WTO”. Focusing on the major proposed agreements between some of the biggest economies of the world, such as TPP and TTIP, and what it means for the WTO which has until now been the central arena for trade negotiations, this topic is sure to provide  a wide range of questions and negotiation issues relevant to all stakeholders. Read more

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posted November 21, 2014

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Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship – The oikos Collection Vol. 4 published

At oikos we are happy to present the fourth volume of the oikos Case Collection “Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship – The oikos Collection Vol. 4″, published with Greenleaf and edited by Michael Pirson. The book is available as e-book and hardback at Greenleaf and major online retailers. For publishers and researchers it is possible to order review and inspection copies.

This fourth collection of case studies is an essential resource for professors that wish to help students learn about the promise and pitfalls of social enterprise. The book contains the winning cases in the social entrepreneurship track of the oikos Case Writing Competition of the years 2010 to 2014 , supported by comprehensive teaching notes available to faculty. The cases are clustered in three sections: 1) socially oriented enterprise cases, health and fair trade, 2) ecologically oriented social enterprises, and 3) corporate social entrepreneurship case studies. The oikos Case Writing Competition was conceived in 2003 as a way to develop excellent teaching material on sustainability issues from around the globe.

Professors and students interested in case studies on corporate sustainability strategy, are invited to have a look at our third volume of the oikos Case Collection: “Case Studies in Sustainability Management”, edited by our oikos PhD Fellow Jordi Vives, is also available on the Greenleaf website. This collection is based on the winning cases in the corporate sustainability track of the case competition from 2010 to 2013. The topics addressed are 1) large corporations and corporate sustainability dilemmas, 2) managing stakeholder relations and 3) sustainability as a source of differentiation strategies.

For more information please contact lena.hoernlein@oikos-international.org.

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posted November 20, 2014

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Spring Meeting 2015

The 2015 oikos Spring Meeting will be hosted in London between March 26th and 29th 2015. It will bring together 120 students from across the globe to enquire, think and discuss the relationship between finance and sustainability alongside LSE students and expert speakers.

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posted November 18, 2014

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Asia Meet 2015

The next Asia Meet will be hosted by oikos New Delhi and the main topic is going to be sustainable urbanisation. More information coming soon!

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posted November 18, 2014

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oikos Winter School 2015

Money and trade is connecting people all over the world. In everyday life, we do not question our modes of transaction through money and trade – we take them to be grown all naturally and as if there were no alternatives.
But is that really the case?  This is the question we are asking at the next oikos winter school with the theme, “X-Change – Sustainability through money and trade“.We invite you to be part of the 11th oikos Winter School from February 23-27th 2015.
It would be the perfect platform for fostering novel ways of driving businesses & rethinking of heterodox outdated economic theory. Meet highly innovative startups that are doing socially and ecologically sustainable business. Discuss new money concepts with prominent scientists. Work in an international team of creative minds. This is your opportunity, grab it!

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posted November 18, 2014

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oikos newsletter November 2014

It is that time of the year when you want to pull up your socks, sip on some hot chocolate and wait for the FutureLab to unfold in all its glory. November is the month of diping temperatures and gathering of oikos members from across the world to converge at the FutureLab 2014 followed by the oikos Conference. The international management team is ready to welcome you in St. Gallen!
Furthermore, this month two new chapters have been welcomed into our network. Read more about them in this edition. Grab your favourite reading spot, get warm and cosy as you settle down to read what the November newsletter has to offer.

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posted November 18, 2014

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Student Reporter becomes Pro Journo. Congratulations!

What started in 2009 as an exploratory project to bring student voices to reporting on international sustainability conferences is taking wings: Our Student Reporter programme becomes Pro Journo. Congratulations!

Student Reporter emerged from a cooperation between oikos and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland in 2009, bringing together 10 students as online reporters to the World Resources Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2011, two years and several reporting projects later, oikos PhD Fellow Tim Lehmann took the initiative to a next level and established Student Reporter as an ongoing oikos programme. Since then, he and his colleagues – in particular Sunmin Kim who joined the team in 2012 and became the programme’s managing editor in 2013 – developed the initiative from strength to strength: Student Reporter became an advocacy blogging platform and provided journalistic training to students around the world. It made young voices an integral part of conferences ranging from the Rio+20 Summit to the World Economic Forum. And it established partnerships with other media outlets such as the Huffington Post and started providing in-depth coverage on a whole series of topics.

Based on this strong momentum, Tim, Sunmin and their colleagues are now embarking on the next phase and have spun off Student Reporter into a new separate organization: Pro Journo – a social enterprise for young people interested in economic and business aspects of today’s toughest societal challenges. We are delighted to see what they have already achieved, and we wish Pro Journo all the best for the continuation of its impressive path!

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posted November 8, 2014

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