To be an oikee...

Carrying oikos name is a sign to the world — you're a part of a movement. That also comes with responsibility — to represent, embody the values and spread the word. You'll learn more as you go, but here is a good starting point:

oikos in a Nutshell

The meaning of the word oikos highlights how we perceive our purpose in the world: oikos has multiple meanings which connect tightly to the core of sustainability and how our society works. Most of us are familiar with the prefix “ecos.” It sums up images of Earth, and forms the basis of words such as ecology, economics and ecosystem. They all share the same Greek root, ecos, derived from “oikos,” meaning “house or household’. The ancient Greek word oikos refers to three related but distinct concepts: the family, the family's property, and the house - in our words: home.

What a fitting name for a community that cares deeply for the fate of our common home, planet earth, and how we want to live together in the future, right? Beyond this, oikos feels like home to many of us - and is home to many innovative pathways to how we want to learn and lead together.

oikos Community

oikos is a community of student change agents that is working towards transforming management & economics education for sustainability. We are over 20 local groups, the so-called chapters, driving change in more than 16 countries worldwide with around 1000 active oikees every year.

An oikos chapter is a local, self-organised group of students that comes together to organise sustainability initiatives and change their own education at their local campus. oikos chapters can look very different as they emerge from the individual university context. They differ in size, organisational structure, formal conditions and their focus topics.

Find the list of chapters and their contacts.

oikos International

oikos International, the umbrella organization, brings all of our members together. We are organized as a student-led nonprofit association that supports and fosters the network. Our initiatives focus on empowering student change agents in their leadership development and change initiatives for transforming their own education, providing platforms for the community to come and grow together, and representing the network in the international spaces of business and higher education transformation.

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