The Chapter Days are your opportunity to meet the international community, exchange and learn from each other or even facilitate a session yourself. The event is created from chapters for chapters.

The goals are:
– creating a community and the famous oikos spirit (despite the online format)
– offer a place for exchange and networking between chapters and individuals
– Share news about oikos International
– Facilitate sessions to support and strengthen your chapter
– AND because this is a LEAP edition we also have exciting personal development sessions

The spring edition of the LEAP Chapter Days is happening from March 18th to 21st online.
Every oikos member (active and alumni) can register to join this online event.

Register here

We have planned some exciting sessions for you Check the agenda here!

If you would like to contribute to make the Chapter Days happening please indicate so at the registration or write an email to alexandra.horvath@oikos-international.org reach out to us. Your co-creation is highly encouraged since we want you to get the most out of the event. Sessions like “Chapters Support Chapter”, “Open Space” and “Impact Fair” depend on you bringing content, contributing and sharing with the community. However, we are also happy if you want to facilitate an oikees bonding session or anything else.

Young people all around the world can now apply for a fully-funded ticket to attend the Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition event in Milan, Italy!

Convened by the Government of Italy, the event will take place from September 28th to 30th and provide young delegates an unprecedented opportunity to put forward ideas and concrete proposals on some of the most pressing issues on the climate agenda. The first two days will be dedicated to working groups, while the last day will feature a discussion between young delegates and the Ministers attending Pre-COP26.

How to attend?

Interested young people between the ages of 15-29 can submit an application detailing the ways you are working with and leading other young people to advance climate action (deadline February 28th).

The application and the competition provide young people two opportunities to be part of this historic event, whether they are experienced climate activists or just starting their climate advocacy journey. Around 400 applicants (2 from each UNFCCC country) will be selected to participate, in addition to a single winner from the #SumItUp competition.

Learn more about the event.

The Carbon Literacy Training was developed by Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK in collaboration with the PRME Champions, the PRME Working Group on Climate Change, oikos International, and the Carbon Literacy Project. 

This Programme equips you with the information and skills needed to make high impact changes in your work for example research, teaching or consultancy work in order to reduce carbon emissions along with addressing mutiple other SDGs.  A certificate is given upon full participation and completion of the training. 

Led by Professor Petra Molthan-Hill from NBS and facilitators from all over the world, the next training will be offered and facilitated by PRME on four consecutive Wednesdays in February and March, from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST/ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm GMT, beginning on Wednesday, 24 February. Upon attending all four sessions and completing an assessment, participants can become trainers themselves and roll it out across their business schools and networks.

Register for the individual sessions:

Wednesday, February 24, 5pm CET: Register
Wednesday, March 3, 5pm CET: Register
Wednesday, March 10, 5pm CET: Register
Wednesday, March 17, 5pm CET: Register

Learn more about Carbon Literacy Project

oikos is a student organization with an inspiring story and rich history spanning over three decades. No doubt that, looking at what oikos is today, the ‘original’ oikees from back in 1987 would be proud of what our little organization from St. Gallen has grown into and the community it created in its core. Over the years, thousands of students across multiple continents have been a part of oikos, helped shape it and constantly make it better and better. In that time, the world has undergone many changes, but this collective effort from our community remained a constant and is what makes us all proud to be a part of it.

And we think the best way to show our gratitude and pay respect to that effort is to immortalize it, through putting together scattered pieces of our amazing history and making it easily accessible to all oikees – future, past and present! We want it to inspire us to take more action, be creative and work together to fulfill the oikos Mission and Vision.

And for that we need you – active oikos members and alumni to work together to reconnect with our collective history, reorganize the archives and open them to the oikos world and take learnings from history for future action. The goal is to make it interactive and engaging, easy on the eye but with a clear structure and constantly evolving.If you’re interested in joining us, we’re happy to have you onboard! Write us an email at gregory.vrient@oikos-international.org titled “Homecoming – application”.

Help us build a new international network within oikos International! We are oikos Consultancy, a new Thematic Squad. oikos Consultancy is a student-run consulting project of oikos international focused on supporting startups, impact focus businesses and NGOs to accelerate their growth and their impact. Our aim is to support startups, impact focus businesses and NGOs to accelerate their growth and their impact.

We are composed of students from around the globe and part of an oikos chapter, united by a passion for sustainability, problem-solving and aiming for a change in our society.

We have one simple mission, that is to deliver real impact to our partners we work with.

6 projects are already in track with amazing international NGO’s.

We want to:

– Connect students from different chapters through a unique consulting experience
– Connect Alumni and build professional exchange relations with them and current students
– Connect companies and offer them a unique approach to enhance their impact regarding sustainability and social policies.

Will you help us? We are looking forward to meeting you and building an impactful project together!

We are looking for some students to assist us in 4 teams:

• Marketing Team: Create and manage the content for Social Media, Format documents for clients and more.

• Human Resources Management: Coordinate recruitment, Do one-to-ones to every consultant periodically and more.

• Client engagement: Contact possible clients, meeting with them & more.

• Expertise team: Organise sessions for Team Leaders and Team Members focused on consulting and organisation & engagement skills, as well as create content for project guidance.

You want to know more? Get in touch with us at: consultancy@oikos-international.orgWill you help us? We are looking forward to meeting you and building an impactful project together!

Apply now!