Archive (1998-2007)

This page contains some events that took place between 1998 and 2007. It is not a full list, but illustrates some of the activities that took place and the issues that were discussed during that time. Events later than February 2007 can be found in the Past Events section of the oikos calendar.

February 2007
15.01-15.03	Czech Republic	Prague	Ecological Board in 10 univerisities in Prague Home Reconstruction II: Ceiling and Floor.
21	Czech Republic	Prague	lecture "Developing countries and Debt Crisis."
January 2007
15.11-15.01	Czech Republic	Prague	Ecological Board in 10 univerisities in Prague Home Reconstruction I: Windows, Doors and Walls.
15	France	Paris	international solidarity week project: "Fair Trade Lunch"
16	France	Paris	fair trade project: "Ethiquable: Free Trials of Fair Trade Products"
18-21	New York, USA	Ithaca	oikos US Convergence
December 2006
3	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Case Writing Competition (application deadline)
4	Germany	Witten/Herdecke	public speech : "Globalisation and Maintenance of the Future - a Conflicting Relationship"
6	UK	London	excursion: BedZED, the Beddington Zero Energy Development
7	Poland	Warsaw	simulation game start: "Danone Trust"
13	Czech Republic	Prague	Movie: Hry Prachu - The Game of Dust and Christmas Party with Fair Trade Products.
November 2006
5-10	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Winter School
9	Germany	Witten-Herdecke	topic-evening: "Expedition World"
15	France	Paris	international solidarity week project: "Fair Trade Lunch "
15	Czech Republic	Prague	lecture: "Ecological Law Advising Services"
23	Germany	Witten/Herdecke	topic-evening: "Sustainable Tourism"
25	UK	London	workshop: with SustainAbility and Energy for Sustainable Development Ltd
October 2006
01	Czech Republic	Prague	exhibition start : "Energy Efficient Housing"
10	Germany	Bayreuth	movie evening: "The Corporation"
10	Norway	Oslo	conference: "Exploring Business Opportunities in Developing Countries"
16	Germany	Witten/Herdecke	seminar start : "Unconditional Basic Income"
19-22	Poland	Warsaw	oikos Autumn Meeting
25	Czech Republic	Prague	lecture with Czech Ministry for the Environment: "Living Quality in Czech Cities"
September 2006
1	South Africa	Johannesburg	project launch: "Permaculture Garden"
29	UK	London	presentations: "LSE Freshers week"
30	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Award for Student Entrepreneurship (application deadline)
August 2006
21-25	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos PhD Summer Academy
July 2006
1	France	Paris	project launch: "Sustainability Interview Series"
1-3	Germany	Witten/Herdecke	seminar: "Sustainable Investments"
6	Germany	Cologne	lecture: "Healthcare System"
June 2006
1	France	Paris	movie show : "Darwin's Nightmare”
1	Switzerland	St.Gallen	plant visit: Canon: "Sustainability in Production"
1	Germany	Witten-Herdecke	film-evening: "The Corporation"
5	Dhaka	Bangladesh	oikos workshop: "Sustainability in Bangalore" together with the AllTech Foundation
8	France	Paris	public lecture with the EU Commission and Veolia Environment : "Sustainable Development - An Opportunity to Boost Europe"
8	Germany	Witten/Herdecke	topic-evening: "Local Currencies"
10	Austria	Graz	oikos discussion series: "oikos Book and Discussion Series"
10-12	Switzerland	St.Gallen	International Gronen conference: "Sustainability Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
12-16	Switzerland	St.Gallen / Geneva	oikos Model WTO
13	Dhaka	Bangladesh	oikos workshop: "The Concept of Sustainability"
13	Austria	Graz	oikos Sustainability Career Fair
15	Austria	Graz	project launch: "Sustainability Taskforce for the first Sustainability Report of the University of Graz"
17	Dhaka	Bangladesh	oikos seminar: "Environmental Development "
20	Austria	Graz	oikos workshop: "oikos Sustainability Café – The future of the University of Graz"
23	Germany	Cologne	Sustainable Tourism Conference
27	Dhaka	Bangalore	seminar: "Environmental Development"
31	France	Paris	exhebition: "Paper Action: ESSEC's Paper Comsumption”
May 2006
2	Slovakia	Bratislava	document screening & discussion: "Do Corporations Govern the World? Part III"
6	Germany	Hamburg	conference: "Climate Congress"
7	Poland	Warsaw	project start: "Curricula Assessment and Report"
7	Switzerland	St.Gallen	conference: oikos St.Gallen Alumni Meeting
8-9	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Konferenz "Die Zukunft des Geldes - In Zukunft investieren"
9	Slovakia	Bratislava	document screening & discussion: "Do Corporations Govern the World? Part IV"
10	Slovakia	Bratislava	presentation & discussion: British Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia: "Corporate Social Responsibility - Opportunities and Challenges"
12	Switzerland	St.Gallen	presentation & discussion: "Building Multicultural Students Network"
12-15	Germany	Witten/Herdecke	seminar: "Sustainability Communications"
15	Slovakia	Bratislava	document screening & discussion: "Do Corporations Govern the World? Part V"
18	Germany	Cologne	lecture: "Sustainable Tourism"
18	Norway	Oslo	18th oikos Case Writing Colloquium at EURAM 2006
23	Germany	Clausthal	project launch : "Solarpower for Education"
29	Germany	Clausthal	speech session: "Energie durch Biomasse"
29	France	Paris	project launch: "SD Week"
30	France	Paris	exhebition: "Yann Arthus Bertrand – The Earth from the Air”
April 2006
1	Germany	Bayreuth	project launch: Sustainability University Calendar
1	Czech Republic	Prague	project launch: “Ecological Board for 10 Universities: Chernobyl, 20th Anniversary”
3	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos presentation : Introduction of new PhD students at the University of St.Gallen
6	Switzerland	St.Gallen	international conference: Special session during the swiss-norwegian seminar Sustainability Challenges for Business: "How to Meet the Challenges: Priorities for Business Schools in the Future?"
10	Slovakia	Bratislava	documentary screening & discussion: "Do Corporations Govern the World? Part I"
18	Germany	Clausthal	project launch: "Sustainability Lectures Calendar"
18	Czech Republic	Prague	oikos lecture: Xaver Diermayer, expert on sustainable investments: "The Added Value of Sustainable Investments"
23	Slovakia	Bratislava	document screening & discussion: "Do Corporations Govern the World? Part I"
24	Slovakia	Bratislava	oikos lecture & discussion: "Renewable Versus Non-Renewable Energy Sources: The Future of Energy Sector in Slovakia"
25	Slovakia	Bratislava	document screening & discussion: "Do Corporations Govern the World? Part II"
27-30	Germany	Bayreuth	conference: oikos International Presidents Meeting
March 2006
7	England	London	industry Panel: CSR in BP, Marks&Spencer, Rio Tinto
7-31	Czech Republic	Prague	exhibition: Alternative Sources of Energy
8	Belgium	Brussels	plant visit: Solvay SA, plastics production
8	France	Paris	fashion show: "Fair Trade"
13	France	Paris	conference: "Social Entrepreneurship"
15	Poland	Warsaw	survey start: "Business Ethics and WSE Students"
17	England	London	project launch: LSE consulting group "Sustainable Futures"
21	Austria	Graz	cinema show: "The Corporation"
23	Austria	Graz	oikos lecture: Prof. PhD. Jürg Minsch, BOKU Vienna: "Sustainability: Request for a Development of an Open Society"
28	Czech Republic	Prague	oikos lecture: Tomas Gremlica, Director of the Intitute of Ecopolitics: "What to Do With the Coal Dumps in Kladno?
29	Czech Republic	Prague	oikos lecture: Steve Thomas, Public Services International Research Unit: "Economic Aspects of Nuclear Energy"
February 2006
1	France	Paris	project launch: "Canibal the Can Collector"
13-19	Lithuania	Vilnius	international conference: "Sustainability across boarders" in cooperation with "Economics Congress" of Waseda University Tokyo
21	Belgium	Brussels	international conference: "European Higher Education for Sustainable Development: How do we make it happen?"
January 2006
2	Bangladesh	Dhaka	oikos speech & discussion: Heiko Spitzeck, PhD-Student in Business Ethics, University of St.Gallen: "Corporate Social Responsibility"
21	Switzerland	St.Gallen	economic role play: "Monetary systems"
23-27	England	London	talk: "The Global Warming" part of LSE "Environmental Week"
23-27	England	London	Party: "Sustainable Party" part of "Environmental Week"
25	Germany	Bayreuth	oikos speech & discussion: Dirk Schneider, M.A. student, University of Bayreuth: "Sustainability Indexes"
26	Austria	Graz	oikos speech & discussion: "Living Sustainable"
31	England	London	oikos panel discussion: "Meeting the Risk of Climate Change"
December 2005
-	England	London	Field Trip Survey: "Sustainable Housing"
07	Poland	Warsaw	Simulation game: TRUST - Danone
2	Germany	Cologne	Sustainable Textile Industy Congress
2-3	England	London	Workshop "Sustainable LSE- Make it Real" In cooperation with Victoria Hands
1. - 9	Germany	Clausthal	Exhebition - AGENDA 21
November 2005
3.-5.	Austria	Graz	Participation of oikos Graz at BeSt3 - Fair for Studies, Career & Education
-	Switzerland	St.Gallen	Speech - Social Entrepreneurship
9	Switzerland	St.Gallen	The Corporation - oikos cinema
-	Czech Republic	Prague	Sustainable Cooking Competition; Results will be presented in form of a degustation at the University of Economics in Prague
15	Czech Republic	Prague	Chopping up the countryside
16.	Germany	Clausthal	Sustainability in plastic technologies
16	Switzerland	St.Gallen	The Corporation - oikos cinema
20. - 25.	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Winterschool 2005
23	England	London	Film Screening "The Great Warming"
23. - 24.	Germany	Lübeck	oikos Presentation by Nina Hug at Northern-Germany DESD Conference
24	Germany	Cologne	Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Textile Industry
25. - 30.	Germany	Clausthal	Exhebition - AGENDA 21
25	Germany	Clausthal	Meeting to launch a solar power plant
29	Germany	Clausthal	Presentation of oikos Clausthal to university
October 2005
7	Austria	Graz	oikos Sustainability Workshop with First Semester Students
-	France	Paris	Presentation to new coming students about oikos
10-14	Belgium	Brussels	oikos Fair Trade Week
13	Austria	Graz	oikos Lecture - The Vienna Declaration - Dr.Rauch
18	Switzerland	St.Gallen	Presentation of oikos to new students
20. - 23.	Czech Republic	Prague	oikos International Annual Meeting
25	Switzerland	St.Gallen	The Corporation - oikos cinema
27	Germany	Cologne	Presentation to new coming students about oikos
September 2005
29	Bangladesh	Dhaka	oikos Presentation at BRAC University; Infomail
August 2005
13	Austria- Switzerland	Graz- St.Gallen	oikos Graz meets oikos St.Gallen at Lake of Constance in Switzerland Photos
22. - 26.	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos PhD Summer Academy
July 2005
6.	Switzerland	Zürich	Cinema Arthouse Picadilly Zürich - "The Corporation" - Andreas Missbach (EVB), Peter Schneider (Psychonanlyst)
June 2005
3	Switzerland	St.Gallen	Forum @ HSG - Education in the 21st Century - Dr. Ignacio Campino (Corporate Sustainablity & Citizenship, Deutsche Telekom AG), Prof. Ernst Mohr (President University of St.Gallen) and Heiko Spitzeck (President oikos St.Gallen)
3	Germany	Cologne	Sustainability Workshop
16	Austria	Graz	The era of solar energy has begun! - Di.Dr.W.Guggenberger;
20. - 25.	Switzerland	St.Gallen & Geneve	oikos Model WTO
24	Germany	Cologne	Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the textile industry
May 2005
30.-8.	Switzerland	Braunwald	ETHsustainability & AGS - Educators Seminar on Teachning Sustainability- Lecture by Clemens Mader, "Students contribution to make a difference"
3	Czech Republic	Prague	Green Marketing in the Czech Republic. Mr Tom Vaclavik came direct from Moravia in order to share his experiences in the field of Organic Farming in the Czech Republic and its Market
5.-7.	Germany	Munich	oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition 2005: Prize Giving Ceremony
6.-8.	Czech Republic	Jizerzky Hory, North Bohemia	Fresh Air for North Bohemia The tradition of reforestation in areas of North Bohemia will continue this spring! oikos members and students will work as volunteers for the Association “Friends of the Nature”.
9	Lebanon	Beirut	Prize giving ceremony of case studies - Towards sustainable transportation in Lebanon
11	Germany	Bayreuth	Field Study with the Head of Sustainability Management Department of WestLB - Public lecture & student workshop (Theme: Sustainability Management and the Implications for Corporate Risk Management)
13	Germany	Cologne	Sustainability Workshop
26	Germany	Hamburg	Media & Sustainabilit: Speeches and Discussion
31	France	Paris	Companies & Sustainable Development
April 2005
1	France	Paris	Alumni Dinner oikos Paris
7	Czech Republic	Prague	Corporate Social Responsability in the Czech Republic. Ing. Tomas Nejedlo Executive Director of Business Leaders Forum.
8	Lebanon	Beirut	American University Beirut - Sustainability Forum
12	Czech Republic	Prague	“Electro-waste” in the Czech Republic
14	Austria	Graz	The Global Marshall Plan - Mag. Klemens Riegler
17	Georgia	Tbilisi	Interview with Prof.Dr. IRAKLI KHOMERIKI. Chair of the UNESCO’s chair of Oceanography in Tbilisi, Georgia. Send your questions to Nikoloz Shublaze
20	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Lecture: Social Entrepreneurship - Ashoka, UBS
21	Germany	Cologne	Get informed about oikos Cologne - an information eavening
21	Sweden	Stockholm	Seminar about illegal credits
22.-24.	Czech Republic	Prague	oikos Prague and Environmental Education for Kids? oikos , Arte Natura and students from the University of Economics in Prague will work as volunteers in Prusiny near Pilsen at the ecological centre Ametyst which offers short term ecological activities for kids from the kindergarten and elementary schools.
20. - 23.	Austria	Graz	International Launch in Higher Education - UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
25.-29.	Belgium	Brussels	Fair Trade Week
26.- 28.	Germany	Hamburg	oikos International Presidents Meeting
27	Lebanon	Beirut	Presentation of case studies - Towards Sustainable transportation in Lebanon
29.- 30.	Germany	Hamburg	oikos Conference "Sustainability in emerging countries"
March 2005
9	Great Britain	London	oikos Conference "United Against Hunger" - a series of talks including speakers from the World Food Programme
11. - 13.	Czech Republic	Prague	seminar “Markets, Bussiness and Environment” in Kostelecky Horky (East Bohemia) in cooperation with Department of Environmental Economics at the University of Economics in Prague
14	France	Paris	Interview in Brussels with Robin Miege - DG Environment - European Union
16	Poland	Warsaw	Roundtable with a representatives of ecoligical NGOs (WWF and others) about the social factor in environmnetal assesment in investement process in Polish law as a part of a project "different aspects of SD"
29	Czech Republic	Prague	The renewable energy sources in the Czech Republic
29	France	Paris	Fairtrade Breakfast
30	France	Paris	Stand to promote Fair Trade
February 2005
-	Germany	Bayreuth	Kick Off for the Participation in the "Studienpreis 2005 Competition" (Main Title: Ausweg Wachstum?)
-	USA, California	Stanford	Philanthropic efforts to address the global challenge of Climate Change with Hewlitt Foundation
-	USA, California	Stanford	Panel for the school's annual Entrepreneurship Conference on "Starting a Business in the Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability Sector"
7	India	Bangalore	oikos Interactive Session about waste & traffic management
12. - 13.	Austria	Graz	oikos winterexcursion to Lachtal, Austrian mountains
14	Great Britain	London	oikos Lecture by Sam Fankhauser of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
January 2005
13	Germany	Bayreuth	Invitation of Jörg Kruhl (Chief of the Project Goup "CO2-Certificate Trading System" for E.ON) Public Presentation and Discussion
-	Germany	Bayreuth	Public student workshop about the scientific evidence of Global Warming - current and possible future climate agreements. Johannes Ruppert (Climatic Researcher), André Radloff (Student), Felix Neureuther (Student)
14	Germany	Cologne	Economic Growth as the major goal of policy?
20	Austria	Graz	Ecoprofit - Taking responsibility for the Future
December 2004
3	Germany	Cologne	Sustainability Workshop
5. - 10	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Winterschool
10. - 12	Switzerland	St.Gallen	oikos Internatinoal Annual Meeting
November 2004
-	Germany	Bayreuth	field trip to a local Recycling Company explaining the Operation
-	Germany	Bayreuth	Presenation of new technologies in the Recycling Industry by a member of the chapter
3	Germany	Cologne	Ay caramba - Environment Protection in Mexico
7	Germany	Hamburg	Environment or Image - with Erhard Arhelger - Daimler Chrysler AG & Herbert Leonhart - maleco Farbwerk GmbH
October 2004
-	Germany	Bayreuth	Presentation of the aims of the Global Marshall-Plan Initiative by a chapter member and Disussion
-	Germany	Bayreuth	informing under-graduates about the activities of Oikos Bayreuth
6	Austria	Graz	Orientation Week - Sustinability Workshop
28	Austria	Graz	oikos series of lectures: FOCUS Wasser
June 2004
4	Austria	Graz	Sustainability and Globalisation of Hans Peter Winkelmann, COPERNICUS CAMPUS
17	Austria	Graz	Sustainable Forest Cultivation
March 2004
-	Poland	Warsaw	Globalisation and SD - Round Table with Prof. Tomasz Dolegowski, lecturer, Warsaw School of Economics
5.	Great Britain	London	The 21st Century NGO: In the Market for Change - Seb Beloe from SustainAbility had a talk on their latest report on
7.	Great Britain	London	Model Climate Change Negotiations
29. - 1.	Austria	Graz	President Meeting -Conference & Conference: "Sustainability and Highger Education - Students Role and Contribution to make a Difference
February 2004
-	USA	Stanford	Sustainability roundtable dinner - Small group dinner to discuss sustainability issues.
-	USA	Stanford	Lunch time events with speakers from various sustainability/environmental disciplines are invited to discuss specific issues.
12	Austria	Graz	oikos Graz talked to students about "Sustainability" in the HBLA Leoben
26.- 27.	Germany	Bonn	"First EuropeanUniversity - Industry Forum" oikos is a student partner of Copernicus - Campus for this conference
January2004
-	Spain	Barcelona	Meeting of the NGO “ Engineers without boundaries” with the NGO “Bola de neve”. The objective is to create sinergies among NGOs with different goals.
Jan - March	USA	Stanford	Environmental Issues in GSB Academics: 1-unit Business & Environmental Seminar
22	Austria	Graz	Environment - Mediation
25	Germany	Cologne	AIDS – none of their business? oikos in partnership with Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and UNICEF student group.
29	Great Britain	London	WHO'S CHANGING WHO? NGO partnerships with business for sustainable development - Talk by Matthew Gorman, Principal Advisor of the Business Programme of Forum for the Future

December 2003
27	India	Bangalore	"LESS PLASTIC CAMPAIGN and RALLY" organized by Oikos Bangalore and the Jayanagar Traders’ Association supported by Saahas. Objectives: To promote the use of alternative packaging and educating the public about the ill effects of plastic. We seek to educate the public about the harmful effects of using plastic and the promotion of the use of ecologically, socially and economically viable alternatives. Hence, creating a better place to live.
19	Germany	Cologne	oikos Cologne X-mas Party
11	France	Paris	oikos Paris roundtable "To what extent can fair trade be an alternative of the current trade system of agricultural products coming from the South?" + degustation of fair trade products. speech and fair trade products tasting, in partnership with Max Havelaar Patrick Vinson, member of the Board Max Havelaar France. Place: IPAG, 184 boulevard Saint Germain, dans le 6e. at 15:30
10	Germany	Cologne	oikos CologneTable talk (drinks & discussion): discussion about present-day topics related to sustainability in a relaxed pub atmosphere
10	UK	London	oikos London Workshop on the article: “Kyoto Protocol” by Teddy Deroy and Mathieu Regnier, Family Album Time and Place: LSE, room D109 at 17:00
10	Poland	Warsaw	oikos Warsaw International Law of SD Roundtable organised by oikos Warsaw Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, 10 December 2003 Discussion about problem with a good translation of SD term into Polish. Presentation of various SD definitions in international official documents. Prof. Jerzy Menkes, lecturer, International Law Association - Polish Chapter President

5	UK	London	oikos London: "Beyond Boxed-in Business - Corporate social innovation at Volvo" by Mr Karl Palmås Using examples from Volvo Car Company, Palmås will critique the 'boxed-in' thinking of mainstream management and economics. He will discuss how corporate responsibility is linked to strategic innovation; why business should see civil society actors as collaborators (not enemies); and when it pays to be a corporate activist. Time and Place: LSE, room D111 at 18:00
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