The oikos FutureLab is our annual flagship event to gather the global oikos family of student members, alumni, advisors, faculty and partners. It is not only a meeting to share perspectives on the future, but also a “laboratory” to design initiatives and engage the oikos community in pursuing them. In 2018, the annual oikos FutureLab will be held in Geneva, Switzerland on October 26-27. The theme for this year’s event is “Building Lasting Change”, with an interactive program focusing on oikos’ goal to make change both in the classroom and in the broader world.

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Maeve CohenDirectorRethinking Economics

Maeve CohenDirectorRethinking Economics

Maeve Cohen is the director of Rethinking Economics. Maeve got involved with Rethinking whilst she was a student at the University of Manchester, co-founding the Post-Crash Economics Society there. After graduating, she continued to maintain her involvement with Rethinking, volunteering as a trustee, as she was working in external affairs at The Institute for Public Policy Research North. 

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Alessandra de MacedoConsulting EconomistUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization

Alessandra de MacedoConsulting EconomistUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization

Alessandra de Macedo is researcher specializing on topics related to industrial economics, global value chains, and social-economic impacts of green economy transition. In her work, she relies a lot on data, focusing on empirical studies which use both input-output analysis and econometrics. Since 2016, she had been working as a consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) where she has participated in a number of research projects on these topics. She also has previous worked as a consultant to the Brazilian Industrial Development Agency and in Business Intelligence in private sector.  She holds a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and a MA in Development Policies from University of Paris 13. 

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Daniel Duarteoikos Alumnus, Co-Founder and CEOkoawach

Daniel Duarteoikos Alumnus, Co-Founder and CEOkoawach

Daniel Duarte is an oikos Cologne alumnus and Co-Founder & CEO of the koawach (koakult GmbH). Daniel was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. He passed his bilingual A level in Bogotá and received Bachelor’s Degree in economics at the University of Cologne (2009-2013).  In September 2013, the idea of koawach (previously GUAfair, comparable with todays sort of cinnamon and cardamom) was born. Breakthrough succeeded in October 2015 with an appearance of Heiko Butz and Daniel Duarte in a German TV show for startups, titled “Die Höhle der Löwen” (in English: “The Lions’ Den”). The program was seen by over 1.2 million viewers, while koawach received approximately 31.000 orders. 

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Lorraine EdenEmeritus Professor of BusinessMays Business School, Texas A&M University

Lorraine EdenEmeritus Professor of BusinessMays Business School, Texas A&M University

Lorraine Eden is Professor of Management and Emeritus Professor of Business in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. Her research interests, which lie at the intersection of economics, international business and public policy, focus on transfer pricing (the pricing of related party transactions) and strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs).  Her books include Taxing Multinationals (1998), Multinationals in North America (1994), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing (1985, 2017), The Ethical Professor (2018), and The Economics of Transfer Pricing (2019). Dr. Eden’s 175 scholarly publications have nearly 12,000 citations on Google Scholar. She is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, the top-ranked journal in the field of international business. Prof. Eden is currently Immediate Past President of the Academy of International Business (AIB), where she was elected an AIB Fellow in 2004 and received the AIB President’s Award in 2012. Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB), which she founded in 2001, gave her its inaugural Woman of the Year award in 2016. At Texas A&M, she teaches a graduate seminar on transfer pricing and multinational enterprises, which is cross-listed in the departments of Management, Economics, and International Affairs. Her Transfer Pricing Aggies program has trained nearly 350 graduate students, more than one-third have transfer pricing careers. She is an affiliated expert with the Analysis Group, where she consults on transfer pricing and strategies of multinational enterprises.  She can be reached at leden@tamu.edu.

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Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-PerezProfessor of ManagementUniversidad EAFIT

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-PerezProfessor of ManagementUniversidad EAFIT

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (PhD, MBS, Psy) is Full Professor of Management at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia). Maria-Alejandra was the Vice-President of Administration at the Academy of International Business (AIB) (August 2015- August 2018) and the current regional chapter chair for Latin America and the Caribbean (AIB-LAT) (July 2018-July 2021), Member of the global council of the Sustainable Development Goal number 1 (SDG 1: End Poverty) of the World Government Summit (WGS), coordinator of the Colombian universities in the virtual institute of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 2009; Research Partner at the CEIBS Center for Emerging Market Studies (CEMS), Area Editor of the Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management (CCSM) journal; Associate Editor Transnational Corporations; and Editor-in-Chief of the business journal AD-minister. Dr. Gonzalez-Perez holds a PhD in Commerce (International Business and Corporate Social Responsibility), and a Master in Business Studies (MIB) in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She also did postdoctoral research at the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) in NUI Galway. Prof. Gonzalez-Perez was the Head of the Department of International Business (2009-2013) and Director of the International Studies Research Group (2008-2013) at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia). Prior to her positions in Colombia, she worked as a researcher in various organisations such as the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC), Irish Chambers of Commerce, and the Economics of Social Policy Research Unit (ESPRU) in Ireland. She also has been a Visiting Professor at ESAN (Lima, Peru); and the Lebanese American University (LAU) (Beirut, Lebanon). 

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Jonas HaertleProgramme OfficerUN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

Jonas HaertleProgramme OfficerUN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

Jonas Haertle is currently developing a new partnership for UNITAR and higher education institutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Previously, from 2010 to 2018, Jonas Haertle was the Head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an initiative founded by the United Nations Global Compact and leading business school associations. He led the global secretariat and built PRME into the world’s largest initiative on responsible management education. From 2007-2010, he was the global lead of the UN Global Compact’s Local Networks in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. In 2012, in the run-up to the Rio+20 conference he set up the UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) together with UN partners.

Mr. Haertle has written and contributed to a number of publications and academic articles on corporate sustainability and responsible management education and he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal respectively.  

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Zamzam IbrahimVice President Society & CitizenshipUK National Union of Students

Zamzam IbrahimVice President Society & CitizenshipUK National Union of Students

Zamzam Ibrahim is Vice President Society & Citizenship of the National Union of Students UK, one of the principle representative of 7 million students in higher and further education in the UK.

Zamzam leads NUS’s work on tacking the rise of racism in society, leading campaigns on climate justice and leading the campaign for Votes at 16. She has worked in particular on bringing climate change to the forefront of the NUS’s work, shifting the focus of the work on climate change to look at its impact on the global south and poorer communities.

As the most senior Muslim woman leader in UK student politics, Zamzam has been a leading voice for a number of years now against the rise in hate crimes against the most marginalized in society.  

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Graeme MaxtonAuthor, Former Secretary GeneralThe Club of Rome

Graeme MaxtonAuthor, Former Secretary GeneralThe Club of Rome

Graeme Maxton is a best-selling author, lecturer and speaker on the challenges facing humanity -climate change, poverty, unemployment and inequality. He is a Full Member of the Club of Rome where he was Secretary General between 2014 and 2018. A trenchant critic of modern economic thinking, he is the co-author of Reinventing Prosperity, Managing economic growth to reduce unemployment, inequality and climate change, (Greystone, 2016). The book was written with Jorgen Randers, one of the authors of 1972 book The Limits to Growth. The German edition, Ein Prozent ist genug (oekom Verlag, 2016) was a No1 best-seller. Among his other books is The End of Progress: How modern economics has failed us (Wiley, 2011), which was nominated for the FT’s Best Book about Business Award and became a top-20 Spiegel best-seller. His latest book, “Change! Warum wir eine radikale Wende brauchen (why we need a radical turnaround)” will be published in German by Komplett-Media in October 2018.

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Thibault MercierMarketing Manager in Energy and SustainabilityServices Industriels de Genève

Thibault MercierMarketing Manager in Energy and SustainabilityServices Industriels de Genève

Thibault Mercier is a Marketing Manager in Energy & Sustainability. He is deeply involved in Innovation, Strategy, Marketing and Business development for Climate change, Energy transition, Sustainable and smart cities. He is currently Heat Solutions Marketing manager at Services Industriels de Genève, in Switzerland. He coordinates marketing and business policies for heat solutions in Geneva, such as geothermy, water and waste thermal valorisation, industrial ecology, biomass, natural gas and biogas. He has intervened as a teacher for Sustainable Innovation programs in Management schools, such as HEC Lausanne and ESCP Europe in Paris. Previously, in France and Switzerland, he has collaborated for large companies and startups in Energy, Sustainability, Telcos and Digital, as a management consultant, marketer and entrepreneur. Thibault graduated from HEC Paris in 2001, with a Master in Management.

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Petra Molthan HillCo-chairUN PRME Working Group on Climate Change & the Environment

Petra Molthan HillCo-chairUN PRME Working Group on Climate Change & the Environment

Dr Petra Molthan-Hill leads the Green Academy at Nottingham Trent University since 2013, with the aim to include Education for Sustainable Development related curricular and extra-curricular initiatives into the whole university, for example the internal online course offered to all 30.000 student at NTU: ‘Sustainability in Practice Certificate’.

She won the Sustainability Professional Award in the Green Gown Awards 2016  and ‘The Guardian University Award 2015 for Business Partnership’ (Greenhouse Gas Management Project) together with NetPositive Ltd. Molthan-Hill is also Associate Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development at Nottingham Business School and was as NBS Sustainability Co-ordinator responsible for embedding sustainability and business ethics into the curriculum of the business school.  She is the Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) working group on climate change and environment. Molthan-Hill is the editor of ‘The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management’ offering  seminars and other teaching material in how to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into accounting, marketing, HR and other subjects in management/business studies; the second edition is now part of the PRME book series. She is also the Academic Lead for PRME in Nottingham Business School. Recently, Molthan-Hill undertook research with ‘Coronation Street’ – a popular soap in the UK – about their impactful carbon literacy training and is now developing a Carbon Literacy Training for Business Schools based on these insights.

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Sascha NickCEOCO2-monitor

Sascha NickCEOCO2-monitor

A serial software entrepreneur and CEO of CO2-monitor, Sascha Nick also teaches sustainability from many perspectives at the Business School Lausanne and the University of Lausanne, tries to be a good role model for his two young children, enjoys outdoor sports, and lead a reasonably sustainable life. He holds a TU Vienna Master in Electrical Engineering and an INSEAD MBA, has lived on four continents, and in his past life has been an inventor, strategist and corporate executive.

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Quinn RunkleProgramme ManagerUK National Union of Students

Quinn RunkleProgramme ManagerUK National Union of Students

Quinn Runkle is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Programme Manager at the UK National Union of Students. She is based in London and supports universities, colleges, and students’ unions to embed ESD throughout the formal and informal curricula and works across the student movement and with partner organisations to improve the inclusion of sustainability knowledge, skills, and attributes in education across the UK and internationally.

Quinn is currently studying for her Doctorate in Education at the University College of London Institute of Education and has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Political Science with a specialism in Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia.

In 2017, she was named the “Top 30 Under 30 Environmental Educators” by the North American Association for Environmental Education.

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Pauline SprengerSustainability SpecialistVolkswagen AG, Sustainability Department

Pauline SprengerSustainability SpecialistVolkswagen AG, Sustainability Department

 Pauline Sprenger works in the Sustainability Department of Volkswagen Group in Wolfsburg, Germany. She is part of the Office of the Sustainability Council, who directly advises the Volkswagen Group Board of Management in terms of sustainability. Above that, she works in the area sustainability communication and facilitates the yearly meeting of the Group’s international sustainability experts. Pauline has a Master degree in International Business and Sustainability from the Universität Hamburg and a Bachelor degree in Business Studies from the Ostfalia – University for Applied Sciene. In addition, Pauline is an oikos alumna, who has been part of oikos since 2015 and still contributes to international oikos projects. 

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Bastiaan van der LindenAssociate ProfessorEDHEC Business School

Bastiaan van der LindenAssociate ProfessorEDHEC Business School

Bastiaan van der Linden is a professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and director of the MSc in Global Business at EDHEC Business School. With a group of students, he’s preparing to relaunch this program as the MSc in Global & Sustainable business in 2019. His research focuses on contemporary conceptions of value in business and on democracy in private regulation for sustainability. He’s co-editor-in-chief of the Business and Professional Ethics Journal

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Mark WadeBoard of Trusteesoikos Foundation

Mark WadeBoard of Trusteesoikos Foundation

Dr. Mark Wade is a renowned expert in sustainability and sought after advisor and facilitator of senior executive teams and multi-stakeholder events.

Mark has a passion for developing current and future leaders with the values, mindset and capacity necessary for achieving a sustainable world. His pragmatic, business focused approach is coupled with expertise in designing and delivering leading-edge, experiential learning programmes incorporating the theory and practice of personal and organisational change.

His work is born from his pioneering experience in Shell as Head of Sustainable Development Policy, Strategy & Reporting and Director of Sustainability Learning. Here he incorporated sustainability into all stages of the talent pipeline from graduate attraction to senior executive development and ran a global network of change agents.

Until his retirement from Shell, Mark was Shell’s Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He continues to serve as sustainability and business development advisor to New Zealand Trade & Enterprise. He was a founder member of the Academy of Business in Society (ABiS) and is a trustee of oikos and the Brazilian forestry and agricultural NGO, Iracambi. He continues at the forefront of the debate on global talent development.

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Registration

The oikos FutureLab 2018 will bring together a diverse representation of the oikos community and will allow in-depth discussions and exchange. We cordially invite active student members from oikos Chapters, alumni, faculty, advisors and partners to join us in October in Geneva.

Registration | Chapter members

The oikos FutureLab is an invitation only event and the most active and committed oikos members are invited. We aim for the community to actively participate in the preparatory measures and co-develop the agenda with us.

Chapter presidents are invited to select their chapters’ most active members and encourage them to apply. Since there are usually more applications than spaces, the organizing team may select chapter members. Each chapter is also guaranteed one spot in the FutureLab. Please decide within your chapter who will take this space, and indicate it on the application form.

Register Now: Click here!

Registration first deadline: 14 July 2018 (recommended deadline for applicants who need a visa)

Registration second deadline: 19 August 2018 (mandatory deadline for applicants who need a visa)

Registration third deadline: 9 September 2018

Payment | Chapter Members

The student participation fee is 90 CHF, to be paid after acceptance of your application. Please pay only after acceptance of your application!

The fee includes:
Accommodation (check in 25.10.2018/check out 28.10.2018) and food. You are responsible for the cost and arrangement of transportation to and from Geneva, Switzerland.

Cancellation:
▪ A refund will be given for cancellations received 20 days before the first day of the conference. The cancellation fee is 20 CHF.
▪ No refund will be given for cancellations received later than 19 days before the start of the conference.

Payment deadline 1st Round: 10 August 2018

Payment deadline 2nd Round: 5 September 2018
Payment deadline 3rd Round: 20 September 2018

You can make your payment via Bank transfer or PayPal (Credit Card).

Bank Transfer:
Kindly find our bank details here.

* When paying your participants fee via paypal, paypal charges a fee according to the amount of transfered money. This is why you have to pay a bit more, so that we finally get the 90 CHF / 190 CHF

Participant Fee (in CHF)

Chapter Member 100.00 CHFOther Participants 200.00 CHF

First and Last Name

Registration | Alumni, Faculty, Young Scholars, Advisors, Partners

The oikos FutureLab gathers representatives from the entire community. Therefore, if you are oikos alumnus/a, faculty member, a young scholar, advisor to one of our chapters or partner, you are cordially invited to register to our event.

Register now: click here

Registration deadline: 9 September 2018

If you need a visa, we encourage you to apply before.

Payment | Alumni, Faculty, Young Scholars, Advisors, Partners

The participation fee for non-student members is 190 CHF. The fee includes lunches and dinners on the 26th and 27th, coffee-breaks, and a social event. You need to organize your own accommodation.

Please make the payment only after acceptance of your application.

Payment deadline: 20 September 2018

Cancellation:

▪ A refund will be given for cancellations received 20 days before the first day of a conference. The cancellation fee is 20 CHF.
▪ No refund will be given for cancellations received later than 19 days before the start of the conference.
You can make your payment via Bank transfer or PayPal (Credit Card).

Bank Transfer:

Kindly find our bank details here.

* When paying your participants fee via paypal, paypal charges a fee according to the amount of transfered money. This is why you have to pay a bit more, so that we finally get the 90 CHF / 190 CHF

Participant Fee (in CHF)

Chapter Member 100.00 CHFOther Participants 200.00 CHF

First and Last Name

Workshops

Section 1

Be the change you want to see in the world

Description:  How do you as an individual want to contribute to the change you want to see in the world? What’s your vision for after university: Will you become a sustainability professor, head the CR department of a large corporation, found a social enterprise, become an activist in the NGO sphere, sit in a parliament, everything or nothing of this? After a short input on individual theories of change, you will interactively explore which activities might best match your interests, nature, and competences. You’ll leave the workshop with a sense of vision of your future individual lever(s) of change – the inspiring next step on your personal journey to change the world.

Workshop Leader: Katharina B.M. Beck

Katharina B.M. BeckManagerAccenture Strategy Sustainability

Katharina B.M. BeckManagerAccenture Strategy Sustainability

Katharina B.M. Beck works as manager at Accenture Strategy Sustainability in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She advises globally operating corporations on sustainability-inspired business strategies, i.e., how to create both societal and business value through sustainability. Additionally, Katharina is advisory board member of the Berlin-based, international social enterprise “Chancen eG” that finances student careers through fair Income Share Agreements (ISA). Katharina also serves as the spokesperson of the Federal Council on Economic Affairs and Finance of the German green party (Bündnis 90/die GRÜNEN). In 2018, Katharina was president of oikos International after having been an active member of the oikos Cologne chapter. In Cologne, and in Argentina, she has obtained her degree in Regional Sciences of Latin America, with a focus on politics, history, literature and international law; she also holds a degree in business administration.

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Carbon Literacy Training for Business Schools

Description: What if every new recruit into corporations from the world’s business schools was qualified as Carbon Literate? This workshop will introduce students to ‘carbon literacy’ – the idea that people should have “an awareness of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis”.

Not only will students leave the workshop with a better understanding of the scientific basis of climate change and how to apply this to business situations, they will also learn how to run Carbon Literacy Trainings themselves, giving them a helpful tool that they can take back to share at their universities.

Workshop Leader: Petra Molthan-Hill

Petra Molthan HillCo-chairUN PRME Working Group on Climate Change & the Environment

Petra Molthan HillCo-chairUN PRME Working Group on Climate Change & the Environment

Dr Petra Molthan-Hill leads the Green Academy at Nottingham Trent University since 2013, with the aim to include Education for Sustainable Development related curricular and extra-curricular initiatives into the whole university, for example the internal online course offered to all 30.000 student at NTU: ‘Sustainability in Practice Certificate’.

She won the Sustainability Professional Award in the Green Gown Awards 2016  and ‘The Guardian University Award 2015 for Business Partnership’ (Greenhouse Gas Management Project) together with NetPositive Ltd. Molthan-Hill is also Associate Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development at Nottingham Business School and was as NBS Sustainability Co-ordinator responsible for embedding sustainability and business ethics into the curriculum of the business school.  She is the Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) working group on climate change and environment. Molthan-Hill is the editor of ‘The Business Student’s Guide to Sustainable Management’ offering  seminars and other teaching material in how to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into accounting, marketing, HR and other subjects in management/business studies; the second edition is now part of the PRME book series. She is also the Academic Lead for PRME in Nottingham Business School. Recently, Molthan-Hill undertook research with ‘Coronation Street’ – a popular soap in the UK – about their impactful carbon literacy training and is now developing a Carbon Literacy Training for Business Schools based on these insights.

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Playing to Build Change

Description: Participants will be introduced to LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and use the method to engage with the SDGs (global goals). Each student/participant will build his or her own 3D LEGO® model, and explore the relationships and connections between the global goals and their own world. At its core, this workshop is about solving complex issues by building models using LEGO bricks. The metaphors in the models serve as the basis for group discussion, knowledge sharing and problem solving and help foster creative thinking and finding unique solutions.

Workshop Leaders: Kristina Nyzell; Shamsa Rana

Kristina NyzellCEODisruptive Play

Kristina NyzellCEODisruptive Play

Kristina Nyzell is a global strategist, futuristic idealist, cognitive and computational linguist, creative venturist, meaning making humorist, structured processist, open minded interpretivist, social constructionist, purposeful innovation and serious play specialist with a passion for co-creating transformational and sustainable change in purposes, people and organisations. Kristina is an experienced dialogue partner, public speaker and facilitator that works with clients to build strategies sustainable communities for democratic innovation systems, open source-, lead user innovation and co-creation. A perpetual learner and critical thinker, intrapreneur and entrepreneur with a global network of other perpetual learners with a keen interest in asking important questions and working collaboratively to find answers to them. Most recently, Kristina has been engaged with Yousty, a market leader in the apprenticeship space in partnership with ETH Zurich as well as MEED and UAE government stakeholders building collaborative action to solve child obesity. She has a BsC in International Marketing, a BA in Linguistics from Malmö University, an MA from Lancaster University in Organisational Analysis and Behaviour.

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Shamsa RanaManagerPRME

Shamsa RanaManagerPRME

Shamsa Rana is a business accelerator with a proven track record of scaling organisations in disrupted environments by setting corporate goals, identifying new growth opportunities (organic or in-organic), and executing operationally. She has worked with for-profit and start-up organisations to deliver vision and value. Most recently, she has been engaged by the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) to deliver strategic partnerships and the PRME student engagement platform. Shamsa started her career with KPMG’s Transaction Services and subsequently joined Egg Plc., the first listed online bank in 2000. She has a BA in Political Science from Wellesley College, an MA in Political Science from Indiana University and an MBA from Cass School of Business, City University of London.

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Visualizing Globalization

Description:  Living in a such a complex world it can be difficult to keep track of the constantly evolving links that create the global economy. This workshop attempts to cut through the fog by using data visualization tools to analyze a large data sets that capture some of the different aspects of globalization. With the use of an online platform designed specifically for this workshop, participants will explore the different dimensions through which countries are interlinked and attempt to “draw” globalization, bringing together data on factors like production, trade, foreign investments and financial flows. We will explore how countries are linked in different ways to the global economy when considering these different facets of globalization.

Workshop Leaders: Alexandra Sokolenko; Alessandra De Macedo

Alexandra SokolenkoCo-FounderRethinking Economics Torino

Alexandra SokolenkoCo-FounderRethinking Economics Torino

Alexandra Sokolenko is a researcher at the University of Turin where she studies the financial integration of the new members of the eurozone. She has a masters degree in Cooperation, Development and Innovation in the Global Economy from the University of Turin and a masters degree from the Economic Policies in the Age of Globalization program at the University Paris 13. She is a co-founder of the Turin branch of Rethinking Economics, where she fights to make Economics critical, understandable and closer to the real world. 

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Alessandra de MacedoConsulting EconomistUNIDO

Alessandra de MacedoConsulting EconomistUNIDO

Alessandra de Macedo is researcher specializing on topics related to industrial economics, global value chains, and social-economic impacts of green economy transition. In her work, she relies a lot on data, focusing on empirical studies which use both input-output analysis and econometrics. Since 2016, she had been working as a consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) where she has participated in a number of research projects on these topics. She also has previous worked as a consultant to the Brazilian Industrial Development Agency and in Business Intelligence in private sector.  She holds a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and a MA in Development Policies from University of Paris 13. 

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Section 2

Discover your own responsible leadership mindset

Description:  Most leaders aspire to be responsible, and maybe you intend to be(come) a responsible leader yourself. Opinions on what responsible leadership entails, however, differ greatly, and this is not likely to change. The most promising way forward is understanding responsible leadership mindsets, and how people that hold these different ideals can act together. In this workshop you discover your own responsible leadership mindset, and those of the other participants.

Workshop Leader: Bastiaan van der Linden

Bastiaan van der LindenAssociate ProfessorEDHEC Business School

Bastiaan van der LindenAssociate ProfessorEDHEC Business School

Bastiaan van der Linden is a professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and director of the MSc in Global Business at EDHEC Business School. With a group of students, he’s preparing to relaunch this program as the MSc in Global & Sustainable business in 2019. His research focuses on contemporary conceptions of value in business and on democracy in private regulation for sustainability. He’s co-editor-in-chief of the Business and Professional Ethics Journal

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Fashioning the Future: Innovating Textile Value Chains

Description: In this workshop, we will co-create new solutions for a circular fashion industry. First, Kim Poldner will present her current work as a professor in the field of circular business and specifically as a founder of the Circular Fashion Lab at Wageningen University & Research. After this interactive session, participants will be invited for a fishbowl discussion on the challenges and possible solutions for a more sustainable fashion industry. The third part of the workshop consists of group work around developing concrete project proposals for oikees to implement in their own chapters. Those who want to become active on this topic will go home with a concrete project plan and timeline!

Workshop Leader: Kim Poldner

Kim PoldnerProfessor of Entrepreneurship, DirectorCircular Fashion Lab, Wageningen University & Research

Kim PoldnerProfessor of Entrepreneurship, DirectorCircular Fashion Lab, Wageningen University & Research

Kim Poldner is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands where she leads the Circular Fashion Lab. Through bringing together scientists and designers, Circular Fashion @WUR contributes to the creation of new ‘categories’ of materials previously unknown in the fashion industry, disruptive technologies that re-define textile supply-chains and inspired processes of organizing that turn competitors into comparables. Learn more via www.wur.eu/circularfashion.

Kim graduated at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland: for her PhD project she longitudinally studied 58 sustainable entrepreneurs in the fashion industry. Her research interests evolve at the crossroads of entrepreneurship, aesthetics and sustainability and she has written award winning case studies on sustainable fashion pioneers such as Veja and Osklen.

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Let's greenenergize

Description: Energy drives us every day, from mobility to communications and as embodied energy in almost every product. But do you know how the energy systems work? We will present the basics of energy economics from power generation to transmission and distribution and explain the key market mechanisms. In an interactive session, we will also look at the expansion of renewable energies and discuss how each and any one of us can contribute to the energy transition. After this workshop, you’ll be able to understand the fundamentals of energy economics and have gained an insight into new trends and business models in the promising field of renewable energies.

Workshop Leaders: Caspar Bayer; Tiphaine Rouault

Caspar BayerCEOGolfstrom Energy

Caspar BayerCEOGolfstrom Energy

For several years now, Caspar is involved in the fight against climate change both in the academic context and in politics. He initiated, co-organized and supported a series of events at his university to foster the transition towards a more sustainable and fair economy. As a speaker for the Desertec Foundation he promoted the idea of energy partnerships across continents as an opportunity to tackle social, ecological and economic issues. In 2017 he co-founded GOLFSTROM ENERGY, a socio-ecological startup that aims at accelerating the expansion of renewable energies and creates an easy way for everybody to participate. He received a M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Technical University Munich (TUM) and a B.S. degree in economics from the University of Munich (LMU).

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Tiphaine RouaultExecutive Boardoikos International

Tiphaine RouaultExecutive Boardoikos International

The need for a better comprehension of the world and the search for the right tools to improve it were the motivation that drew Tiphaine during her study of economics in France and Germany. As a student representative and part of oikos, she got involved in making the university and its content a more sustainable place. As such, she co-organized numerous events dealing with sustainability at the university and within several organizations. She’s now active at an international level as Executive Board member of oikos international to promote a more sustainable education. During the last part of her study, she focused on energy economics. She graduated in summer with a double M.S. degree in Economic Sciences at the University of Lyon II and the Leipzig University.

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Description:  At oikos, we want to transform education for a sustainable world. One direct way to do this is to work to change economics and management curricula at the universities where we are present. This workshop is designed to help oikees think through the purpose of their education, and dream up new ways to teach economics and management. The results of the workshop will feed directly into the Curriculum 2020 panel discussion, and after the FutureLab, special support will be provided to oikos chapters to adapt and replicate the workshop in their own university. Through this workshop we hope build a consensus within oikos about what our ideal  education education looks like and how we can work together to achieve it.

Participants can choose between a workshop session on either management or economics curriculum.

Creating Transformative Education

Description: Education sets the stage for the rest of our lives. But unfortunately, the kind of education that truely shapes us as individuals is quite rare. This workshop will talk about “transformative education”, and discuss ways that we can make it a regular feature of our higher education systems.

Workshop Leader: Quinn Runkle

Quinn RunkleProgramme ManagerUK National Union of Students

Quinn RunkleProgramme ManagerUK National Union of Students

Quinn Runkle is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Programme Manager at the UK National Union of Students. She is based in London and supports universities, colleges, and students’ unions to embed ESD throughout the formal and informal curricula and works across the student movement and with partner organisations to improve the inclusion of sustainability knowledge, skills, and attributes in education across the UK and internationally.

Quinn is currently studying for her Doctorate in Education at the University College of London Institute of Education and has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Political Science with a specialism in Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia.

In 2017, she was named the “Top 30 Under 30 Environmental Educators” by the North American Association for Environmental Education.

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Exploring Economics as a success model - alternative teaching and study material

Description: This workshop reports on the developments and success of the online learning platform Exploring Economics. We will look at the different sections of the platform, discuss how to participate and how to use it as an incubator for New Economic Thinking.

Workshop Leaders: Jorim Gerrard; Michela Ciccotosto

Jorim GerrardExploring Economics

Jorim GerrardExploring Economics

Jorim Gerrard is a master student of Economics and part of the Erasmus Mundus program Economic Policies in the age of Globalisation (EPOG) at the University for Law & Economics Berlin and the Université Paris 13. At Exploring Economics his roles are mainly the coordination of the curation, ministration and search for material and the international editor team.

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Michela CiccotostoCo-founderRethinking Economics Torino

Michela CiccotostoCo-founderRethinking Economics Torino

Michela Ciccotosto has recently graduated from the University of Turin with a masters degree in Cooperation, Development and Innovation in the Global Economy. Her thesis was on the importance of implementing a pluralistic approach to the teaching of economics, and she is now working with The Italian Association for the History of Political Economy to further develop her research. She co-founded the Turin branch of the international network Rethinking Economics, which aims to improve economics, economics teaching and learning, and economic research.

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How to build successful student initiatives to accelerate change

Description:  In this workshop, Angela Honegger, President of Student Impact, talks about what success looks like in student initiatives, shares some key learnings, and invites participants to bring in their own experiences and best practices. The goal of this workshop is to leave participants with concrete actions and next steps to further leverage their (student) initiative or project to accelerate change in this world.

About Student Impact: Student Impact was founded at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, as the oikos project “oikos consulting”. Its mission is to bring more sustainability into the business world through consulting socially and environmentally sustainable startups, SMEs and NGOs in business-related areas. Since its foundation in 2012, Student Impact has conducted over 90 successful client projects, regularly attracts 40-50 active members and has been awarded with prizes from the academic and private sector. Nonetheless, the last six years have been a challenging journey, full of learnings and constant development. 

Workshop Leader: Angela Honegger

Angela HoneggerPresidentStudent Impact

Angela HoneggerPresidentStudent Impact

Angela Honegger is the president of the oikos spin-off “Student Impact”, a university-based consultancy at the University of St. Gallen, advising socially and ecologically sustainable companies in business-related areas. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Frugal Innovation, combining the topics of sustainability, innovation and the opportunity for the Global West to learn from developing countries. Graduated in Accounting & Finance and International Management from the University of St. Gallen and HEC Paris, she gained some practical experience in the field of consulting and is curious about new ways of developing businesses, societies, and communities in a way that creates value for all parties.

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Thinking strategically about curriculum reform

Description: This workshop will help students to think strategically about how to make change at their universities. Using “power mapping” techniques, participants will build an understanding of the different actors at their universities and discuss how their oikos chapter can work with these actors to achieve their goals.

Workshop Leader: Maeve Cohen

Maeve CohenDirectorRethinking Economics

Maeve CohenDirectorRethinking Economics

Maeve Cohen is the director of Rethinking Economics. Maeve got involved with Rethinking whilst she was a student at the University of Manchester, co-founding the Post-Crash Economics Society there. After graduating, she continued to maintain her involvement with Rethinking, volunteering as a trustee, as she was working in external affairs at The Institute for Public Policy Research North.

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Logistics

Where will I be staying during the FutureLab 2018?

oikos members will be staying at the Geneva Hostel, in Geneva.  You can check in on 25th October and check out on the morning of 28th October.

Where will the FutureLab 2018 take place?

The oikos FutureLab 2018 will take place at Geneva ImpactHub

Where will the Fall Legislative Meeting 2018 take place?

The Legislative Meeting will take place at Geneva ImpactHub

I will be attending the LEAP Meeting 2018 as well, how do I get from Leysin to Geneva?

oikos will organize your transportation from Leysin to Geneva.

How can I get from the Hostel to ImpactHub?

General Questions:

Who can apply for the oikos FutureLab 2018?

oikos Members: Every oikos member can apply to the FutureLab 2018. Each chapter is guaranteed to have ONE spot at the FutureLab. To secure this spot, you have to be nominated by your chapter and indicate so in the application form. Other chapter members are also encouraged to apply, in this case, oikos International will select the most suitable applicants.

Alumni, young scholars, faculty, advisers, and partners are welcomed to join us. However, we can only admit a limited number of such applicants.

Please feel free to register through the tab “Registration”.

How many members from each chapter get to attend the FutureLab 2018?

Two would be the ideal number of members from each chapter, but this will depend on how many applications we receive from each chapter.

Can alumni from my chapter attend the FutureLab 2018?

Yes, we strongly encourage alumni to attend.

When can I arrive at and till what date will the accommodation be provided to me?

As a member, you can check in on the evening of October 25th and check out on the morning of October 28th.

If you are a Faculty, a Partner, Alumni or Advisor, the FutureLab opening session starts on October 26 at 9:00 am.

If you have any questions, please contact us at futurelab@oikos-international.org to help you with your schedule.

Am I entitled to any travel reimbursement for attending the FutureLab 2018?

Unfortunately, there are no travel reimbursements available for FutureLab participants.

I have been put on the waitlist for the FutureLab. When will I hear from you on the final outcome of my application?

The information will be confirmed soon. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us in case you have any queries.

I plan to apply for a place in the Executive Board of next year. Till when should I stay in Geneva for the Executive Board handover following the FutureLab 2018?

The information will be confirmed soon.

I don't know yet who is going to be able to represent my chapter at the FutureLab 2018. Can we apply for the meeting right now and later switch representatives?

Yes, you can do so. However, please inform us whenever you make such changes.

How do I apply for the Impact Fair?

More information will be available soon

What is the LEAP Meeting and is it related to FutureLab?

LEAP Meeting is a separate oikos event that will take place from 19th to 25th October in Leysin, Switzerland just before the FutureLab. The content and program of these two oikos events are not related.

oikos members can decide to apply for both of the events or just one of them. The LEAP application form for Advanced participants is here: https://goo.gl/forms/XjDuBMRhiHXEVnSk1 

The LEAP registration from for the President Track is here: https://goo.gl/forms/WB2gYg2lM0qodN5q2

To learn more about oikos LEAP, visit the page: https://oikos-international.org/programmes/leap/ 

Who can attend the Legislative Meeting?

Any oikos member who wants to attend the Meeting is welcome to join. You can extend your stay in Switzerland and attend the Legislative Meeting after the LEAP Meeting 2018 is over (We will provide transportation from Leysin to Geneva) or arrive before the FutureLab. Your accommodation and dinner will be covered by oikos either as part of LEAP or FutureLab package. NB: even though there is no limitation in terms of how many members of a single chapter will attend the meeting, each chapter has ONLY ONE vote.

Is it mandatory to attend the oikos Legislative Meeting on 25th October, before the FutureLab?

No, it is not mandatory and you are free to arrive on the morning of 26th October. However, we encourage our members to attend the Legislative Meeting and highly recommend our chapters to ensure that at least one of their representatives is present at the meeting.

What if no one from my chapter can attend the Legislative Meeting

No worries, we will broadcast the meeting live and will record it for our members who cannot attend the Legislative Meeting. If no one from your chapter is present, you can vote online.

Payment Questions:

When is the deadline for making the payment for the FutureLab 2018?

The deadline for making payments is September 20.

Can I pay via credit card?

Yes, you would be paying via Paypal. The link from where you can make the payment is given on our website.

Can I pay via bank transfer?

Yes, you can make the payment via bank transfer as well. Following are our account details that you’ll need:

IBAN: CH78 0025 4254 6301 7740 Y

BIC (Swift): UBSWCHZH80A

Account Number: 254-630177.40Y

Clearing Number: 00254

Beneficiary Name:

OIKOS International

Dufourstrasse 50

9000 St. Gallen

Beneficiary Bank:

UBS AG

Postfach, CH 9001 St Gallen

Are there any fees?

Yes, oikos Members  need to make a payment of 90 CHF in order to attend the oikos FutreLab. 90 CHF covers your accommodation and food during the event. You are responsible for travel expenses from your home city to Geneva and back.

Alumni, young scholars, faculty, advisers, and partners are required to pay 190 CHF. This includes food during the event, but not accommodation

What is included in the participation fee for the FutureLab 2018?

oikos Members: 90 CHF covers your accommodation in double room at the Hostel (check-in: 25.10.2018 and check-out: 28.10.2018) and food during the event. You are responsible for travel expenses from your home city to Geneva and back. Unfortunately, we cannot reimburse this expenses. NB: if you plan to attend both LEAP Meeting and FutureLab, your international travel will be covered as it will be considered as a part of the LEAP package. However, you will still need to pay the FutureLab participation fee.

Alumni, young scholars, faculty, advisers, and partners: 190 CHF covers food during the event, but not accommodation.

How much is 90 CHF in the currency used in my country?

Here is a site where you can easily make the conversion – http://www.oanda.com

Logistical Questions:

Where will I be staying during the FutureLab 2018?

oikos members will be staying at the Geneva Hostel, in Geneva.  You can check in on 25th October and check out on the morning of 28th October.

Where will the FutureLab 2018 take place?

The oikos FutureLab 2018 will take place at Geneva ImpactHub

Where will the Fall Legislative Meeting 2018 take place?

The Legislative Meeting will take place at Geneva ImpactHub

I will be attending the LEAP Meeting 2018 as well, how do I get from Leysin to Geneva?

oikos will organize your transportation from Leysin to Geneva.

How can I get from the Hostel to ImpactHub?

oikos FutureLab 2017

In 2017, the oikos FutureLab was also the launchpad for the celebration of our 30th anniversary and for kicking off the next decade of oikos initiatives. We took stock of and celebrated our achievements by bringing together the global oikos community from 30 years of impact: our members and alumni, advisors and faculty, partners and supporters. The theme for this year’s event was Shaping Tomorrow Today.

The FutureLab took place on October 12. Inspiring keynote speakers included Ambassador Michael Gerber (Swiss Special Envoy for Global Sustainable Development), Peter Lacy (Managing Director for Growth, Strategy, and Sustainability, Accenture), and Sophia Tickell (Founder and Director, Meteos). They tackled the topic of how business can and should be a force for good. In addition, oikos FutureLab panelists discussed reforms needed to transform economics and management education and debated the role of oikos in this process. The FutureLab workshops also examined contemporary sustainability challenges that are crucial for the development of the sustainability agenda of the decades to come.

Learn more: https://oikos-international.org/oikos-futurelab-2017/

oikos FutureLab 2016

For the sixth consecutive year, the oikos community is gathered in St. Gallen from November 6 to 9 for the FutureLab 2016. The aim was to pursue the implementation of our mission: integrating more sustainability in economics and management education. Whilst many understand and talk about the struggle of our educational systems to integrate sustainability and teach for its internalisation, we cease to couple the talk with the walk. A gap can be observed both in the struggle to teach for sustainable change agents and for inciting people to walk their talk in implementing projects that can bring about transformation. This is why the international organizing team chose the topic #WalkTheTalk, empowering and inspiring each other and the oikos communities to advance our actions and close educational gaps.

Present at the conference were inspirational voices from business, NGOs and learning institutions as well as motivated oikos members from around the world. Watch this video for a quick impression or

learn more: https://oikos-international.org/programmes/futurelab/oikos-futurelab-2016/

oikos FutureLab 2015

The 2015 oikos FutureLab took place on 26 – 28 October (Monday – Wednesday) in the Pfalzkeller in St. Gallen. Its main aim was to create action plans to implement sustainable and relevant education systems, by involving representatives from all parties with an interest in management and economics education. It is, specifically, intended to facilitate the design of learning experiences that are more effective at preparing change agents to address the challenges of the 21st century. This signifies the embedding of sustainability and social perspectives in management and economics education and integrating pluralistic teaching methods.

We are an important step closer to making education matter and could not have done it without more than 120 enthusiastic and driven participants from 20 countries and 4 continents. Now it is time to act in our local chapters. We are looking forward to seeing the next steps, projects and initiatives of the whole oikos community. Check out the Publication of Ideas here.

More information: https://oikos-international.org/programmes/futurelab/oikos-futurelab-2015/

oikos FutureLab 2014

The 2014 oikos FutureLab took place on 10 – 11 November in St. Gallen. Several projects and initiatives were planned during the oikos FutureLab towards “building a bridge for sustainability in economics and management” together with 120 participants from 18 countries.

For the first time, the oikos FutureLab was organised by a group of seven members from three different chapters worldwide who worked together for eight months. The floor was mainly in the hands of the participants who shaped the gathering. Students, alumni, NGO representatives, faculty members and corporate partners were working together in seven oikos Learning Circles (Economics, Finance, Leadership, Management, Energy, Fashion/Supply Chain and Entrepreneurship) in order to develop projects and initiatives. Speakers included Yuan Yang from Rethinking Economics and Marloes Nichols from Meteos, who spoke about campaigning for sustainability and shared their practical experience, as well as Uwe Lübbermann, founder of Premium Cola, the ecologically friendly and socially just drink producer in Germany who has chosen an organisational structure and strategies at Premium Cola that are in sharp contrast to what we learn in business schools.

More information: https://oikos-international.org/programmes/futurelab/oikos-futurelab-2014/

oikos FutureLab 2013

The 2013 oikos FutureLab took place on 11 – 12 November in St. Gallen. It focused on “Transforming Education” and on opportunities to drive change at faculties for economics and management. As a platform focused on solutions and action, the oikos FutureLab offered insights to co-learn with our members and partners and to identify opportunities to take oikos to the next level as an effective learning organization – in particular:

• To understand and effectively tap into the learning opportunities already existing in our network.
• To develop a platform for oikos and universities where we are active as learning organizations that foster sustainability leadership skills among their members and audiences.
• To explore what a reference model for sustainability education in economics and management actually could look like, so that we can inspire students, scholars and university administrators.

More information: https://oikos-international.org/programmes/futurelab/oikos-futurelab-2013/

oikos FutureLab 2012

On 19th and 20th November, 2012, we will welcome oikos members and partners in St. Gallen for the second oikos FutureLab. The 2012 topic is “Impact: Think – Act – Share”. As a central platform for changemakers, the FutureLab will bring together our chapter members from across four continents; our alumni in business, government, NGOs, and academia; our faculty members from schools for management and economics worldwide, and a broad array of partners supporting our projects.
The oikos FutureLab will focus on impact and activating our network: What impact do we aim to achieve as individuals? How do we develop a mindset of change? How can we activate our oikos network more effectively to create impact? As a platform focused on solutions and action, the oikos FutureLab will offer insights into sustainability trends to watch, to co-learn with our members and partners and to identify opportunities for strengthening our impact in the future.
A key feature of the oikos FutureLab will be the Impact Fair, a forum where conference delegates introduce their own projects, and through which they can engage the oikos community to help them further develop their project. Delegates will be invited to present their initiatives by using a theory of change logic during the Project Fair. Background information will be provided prior to the conference.
The Project Fair will be followed by an Open Space to design and develop concrete projects to pursue with the support of the oikos community.

More information: www.oikos-international.org/2012-2/

oikos FutureLab 2011

The oikos FutureLab 2011 is the first oikos event ever to gather our global family of student members, alumni, advisors, faculty and partners. As we approach our 25th anniversary in 2012, we are launching this new platform to provide not only a meeting point to share perspectives on the future, but also a “laboratory” to design initiatives and engage the oikos community in pursuing them. With oikos chapters across four continents, alumni in business, government, NGOs, and academia, faculty members at leading schools for management and economics worldwide, and a broad array of partners supporting our projects, we believe it is time to bring all of us together and accelerate the sustainability momentum.

As a platform focused on solutions and action, the oikos FutureLab will offer insights into sustainability trends to watch in the long-term, key developments to monitor during the next 12 months, and opportunities for change moving forward. It will take a close look at how the oikos community can strengthen selected projects that are already on their way and provide a launching pad for new initiatives that emerge in the discussions. And it will nurture an ongoing exchange within the oikos community to set agendas, define priorities and join forces to increase impact.

Participation is by invitation only. The event will take place in St. Gallen, Switzerland – where it all started in 1987.