What We Do to Change the World

Chapters' action on campus & international initiatives

In order to contribute to the change we envision, we focus on empowering and encouraging student change agents and actively creating shifts in the way we learn and teach, while spreading awareness for sustainability through our actions. More details on specific initiatives of oikos international can be found below. You can learn more about our strategic thoughts here - the way we approach strategy is highly agile and reflects developments in real time. Our Impact Matrix helps us to coordinate, track and trace the impact of our work, both in chapters & on the international level.

What happens in the chapters

Our community of student change agents drives this change towards sustainability in many creative and self-organized ways that are adapted to their unique contexts. Around 50 student groups, our so-called chapters, influence their local university ecosystems as they walk the talk: they transform their campus, host gatherings and events and reform how and what they learn. Check out our chapter’s social media channels for the most recent examples! The local groups feed their developments back into an inspiring international community of like-minded student leaders. Next to geographical regions with vibrant exchange between individual chapters, we have a thematic layer with squads that embark on inter-cultural conversations and projects around topics that are relevant for the whole community.

How we tend the community at oikos International

On the international level, we see our strongest contribution in supporting the work on the ground, therefore we focus on tending and supporting this community of student change agents in several different ways. Our work in leadership, community and transforming education is strongly related in one joint narrative: Our times call for a new generation of relational leadership. We at oikos help students to grow and develop the competencies needed to navigate complexity. The link to our work on the education system is that we see our universities and business schools as great places to foster these competencies and to support individuals in becoming sustainability leaders with a better understanding of themselves and the world around them. We accompany them in the process, both on the individual and the institutional level. As the students venture out to bring change to their own university ecosystem, they grow and develop and practice what they preach.

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