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oikos International is an international student organization that seeks to strengthen sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship among tomorrow's leaders and decision makers, by sensitising students of business and economics to sustainable development issues. Currently oikos International has 39 Local Chapters in 20 countries around the world, which collectively accredit it with an outreach of more than 50,000 students.〔http://www.oikos-international.org/about-oikos/organisation/oikos-local-chapters.html/〕 oikos activities comprise the organisation of lectures, conferences, simulation games, field trips, and workshops as well as practice-oriented sustainability projects with a focus on environmental issues in economy and business. Most of those activities are conducted on a local level and vary depending on a Chapter. However, oikos has a number of global international projects with the goal of increasing awareness of sustainability challenges and opportunities, developing analytical skills of students and increasing the impact of oikos organisation. According to the Constitution of oikos International that came into effect in 2007, oikos is a "neutral, non-political and non-religious organisation offering a non-partisan platform for discussion on sustainability" that has "no commercial interest".〔http://www.oikos-international.org/about-oikos/organisation/oikos-international/constitution-oikos-international.html/〕 In order to channelize and heighten the competencies of its members in the field of sustainable development, oikos "increases awareness for sustainability opportunities and challenges focusing on students of Management and Economics; fosters their ability not only to analyse long-term economic, environmental and social trends, but also implement sustainability-driven innovation; and creates institutional support for these learning processes through the integration of sustainability issues in research and teaching at the world’s faculties for Management and Economics". ==History== The first oikos chapter, what is today known as oikos St. Gallen was founded on 17 July 1987 at the University of St. Gallen. The original name of the organisation was "oikos - Die umweltökonomische Studenteninitiative an der Universität St. Gallen" (Student's initiative for environmental economics). Activities of oikos St.Gallen, consisting of organisation of conferences, workshops and speeches with the participation of academics and representatives of business and society helped to integrate issues of environmental protection to the curricula of economic and management courses at its home University. Furthermore, it contributed to the foundation of several organisations with the focus on ecology, such as Swiss Association for Ecological Management, Institute for Economy and the Environment and others.〔http://www.oikos-international.org/about-oikos/history.html/〕 In 1990, oikos Foundation was organised. The main purpose of the Foundation is to ideate and enhance the integration of ecology related issues into scientific research of the economics and management. oikos International, the "umbrella" organisation of all oikos branches in the world, was established by 5 Local Chapters in 1998. It is headquartered in the city where the first oikos Chapter was founded - in St.Gallen, Switzerland. Among the reasons of setting up of the head organisation of oikos was to coordinate and facilitate communication between Local Chapters, to support their work and activities and also to catalyze the opening of new Chapters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oikos International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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