oikos Student Entrepreneurship Award

Curricula Change

Winner 2009: INEX – International Network for Educational Exchange, Vienna

Started by Fabienne Babinsky and Philipp Schöffmann without a budget or other support, INEX has grown into an impressive organisation that runs workshops, summer schools and a range of other projects in their hometown Vienna and in Latin America. They have reached hundreds of students with their challenging in-depth programmes, and work together with leading institutions like the INCAE business school. Building on their programmes abroad, they have spurred cooperation at the universities of Vienna with the INEX Sustainability Challenge.


Winner 2008: Campus Climate Solutions, Florida

The award in the 'Curricula Change' track was given to the project ‘Campus Climate Solutions’ at the University of Florida run by Alison Erlenbach. Nik Rove received the prize for the project that trains students in carbon accounting and mitigation options. Students thus training shall be ready to offer carbon services in the market, as well as help the university to comply with their commitment to emit less climate gases.





Call 2009 - Curricula Change

For the "Curricula Change" track, we searched for projects that equip tomorrow’s decision makers with knowledge on sustainable economics and management and action-oriented skills to make a difference for sustainability in practice.

This could include projects that:

  • Host guest lectures, workshops and conferences on sustainability;
  • Establish dedicated sustainability courses and teaching programmes;
  • Integrate sustainability issues into economics and management curricula;
  • Develop and implement new action-oriented learning models;
  • Convince university faculty and administration to pro-actively pursue the topic;
  • Bring together students, professors, business and community;
  • Give students a voice for sustainability!

oikos – students for sustainable economics and management