By Darija Miletic | Co-president
Remembering how it all started..
Reflecting back on how the whole concept of two people leading a big international community of student changemakers into a more sustainable world with their head, heart, body and soul started just a year ago, sounds surreal today.
We are very proud to say that the alternative model of leadership we have chosen, gained deep roots for future generations of oikos co-presidents. We embarked on this journey with an idea to move towards a more sustainable workflow, self-organizing, human-centered way of making oikos and its community thrive. Courageously taking steps towards these goals, one after the other, made us grow a lot as individuals and as a team, reflecting on our actions and impact, developing further ways to steward our worldwide community and strengthening each corner of our diverse organization. On a wider scale, it's leading us to the outstanding execution of all oikos initiatives and a better support and connection to the community. We were very busy during the summer as well, and managed to swing great success with our onsite gatherings like LEAP Mid-Term Meeting, where we had a fruitful meaningful learning experience around participatory leadership, co-creation and collaboration. Besides LEAP, we hosted 6 amazing project teams in an eco-village in Spain for another oikos Camp, offering space for the development of transformational projects in higher education. Alongside onsite events, we reinvented internal information flows, and had a huge outreach of our alternative fundraising efforts thanks to our alumni community!
What’s cooking next for the co-presidents?
As we are stepping bold towards the last quarter of 2022 we are very excited about what is awaiting just around the corner - Carlin Lemke, as a newly elected co-president of oikos International, is coming slowly into the office in November and starting the handover processes with our current co-presidents, Darija Miletic & Sophie Charrois. This will be another exciting period since it will be the first time we are having a constellation of 3 co-presidents working hard to prepare the base for another fruitful year to come.
What else is new in the oikos home? Oooo no, we are not stopping now, we are very excited about oikos Academy coming up from 26th of October till 3rd of November an onsite & online change lab across 5 universities which aim is to created a space for interactive dialogue between students, professors, university management and other local stakeholders to collectively strategize around potential actions as a response to local challenges. On the other hand, we are preparing for some important decisions to be made, for the following year, during our second bi-annual Legislative Assembly in October. And much much more.
Thank you for believing in us!
Big thank you to everyone that donated to this campaign, this was our very first crowdfunding campaign and we were overwhelmed with joy to see each of your 70+ donations and support. You helped a student-led organization grow and widen their impact.
Stay tuned for more oikos magic and opportunities.
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