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What has been evolving behind the oikos International scene?

What has been growing at oikos International since our last report.
First, at the end of ‘22, we elected our NEW International Board, amazing individuals representing huge diversity of our worldwide community. 5 inspiring people took up a responsibility and a challenge to foster the oikos community and support our umbrella organization with their skills & competencies in fundraising, networking, legal efforts, organizational & team development together with community building. 

Beginning of the year, with an idea to move towards a more sustainable workflows, self-organizing, human-centered way of making oikos and its community thrive, we hosted our bi-annual strategy event - TEAM DAYZ - where our whole oikos International team came together to dive deeper into questions like: Who & What is oikos International? What is our contribution to the world? What is the impact of our communication and how it reflects our work? What are our underlying values & beliefs around the topic of money? How do we foster team health and psychological safety at the workplace? How can we increase the sustainability of our work in terms of our salaries? etc. Courageously taking steps towards these goals and questions, 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. 

Leadership development (LEAP)

• We embarked on yet another LEAPYouth journey '23, and started equipping a new cohort of 36 diverse, ambitious and inspiring young students with the necessary competencies, qualities, practices, tools and global network to become conscious leaders in the co-creation of thriving and sustainable societies.
• We managed to swing great success with our first ever LEAP Summit, organized and hosted by oikos LEAP alumni, where we had a fruitful & meaningful learning experience around participatory leadership, co-creation and collaboration. LEAP Summit gathered over 130 participants in total from 14 countries. Based on the extensive feedback of the participants and volunteers we have also created a strategy for the LEAP YOUth 2023.

Transforming Education (TE)

• In collaboration with Club of Rome, Green Office Movement, Climate Student Movement & our TE team co-facilitated an impactful session at the Learning Planet Festival on the topic of “Co-creating a Travel Guide to the Future”, where 39 participants embarked on a co-creative and transdisciplinary learning expedition, nourished by inner development goals, is entirely in the hand of learners.
• Our new Transforming Education Squad - consisting of multiple oikos chapters - started a new cycle of supporting each other on their ground work at the local universities. 
• Preparations for our next big transforming education event started asynchronously - oikos Camp - a week-long change lab which aim is to create a space for students & allies from all over the world to gather & leverage their change initiatives, supporting a wider transition towards sustainability.

Community in Action

• Besides LEAP and TE, we kicked off the semester together with our community and tapped into the challenges & needs of our chapters, sharing best practices and empowering the feeling of togetherness.
• oikos Houses (regions) have been also reviving & starting their new cycle togetherwith the first spring blossoms.

What's next?

We are proud to announce, that we will have a LEAPYouth onsite kick-off event taking place in Germany from 23rd until 26th of March!

What else is new in the oikos home? Oooo no, we are not stopping now, we are very excited that we have finally locked the place and the dates for our next oikos International Chapter Conference (ICC) hosted by our incredible chapter oikos Copenhagen from 20th until 23rd of April 2023! And all of you are invited to join! Follow our website and social media for more information coming your way very soon.

On the other hand, we are preparing for some important decisions to be made, for the following year, during our first bi-annual Legislative Assembly in April. For the first time after Covid pandemic in a hybrid form, onsite during our amazing International Chapter Conference in Copenhagen and online. And much much more.

And of course, the above mentioned oikos Camp taking place in Barcelona in the last weeks of July. Stay tuned for more info!

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 donations and growing support. You helped a student-led organization grow and widen their impact.

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All the best,

Darija & oikos International Team

Links:

• oikos Impact Matrix
• oikos - what we do?