For the 8th time the Winter School will enable international students to act sustainably and embrace social entrepreneurship. In a weeklong series of workshops, lectures, networking and insights on social enterprises, the participants will be provided with skills that empower to think in global and holistic contexts and accomplish their projects as to make a positive impact on their social environments. Lectures about future mega trends, future technological possibilities and institutional evolution provide problem solving perspectives and shape visions of change. Individual success stories and global visions inspire the participants to think ahead and act on behalf of sustainability. Workshops on innovative design thinking, strategic planning including social media marketing, networking and decision-making-processes empower and enable the participants to set up their projects.

The oikos Winter School is an annual platform for international students committed to fighting the social, economic and ecologic challenges around the globe. As a catalyst of innovative solutions the last seven Winter Schools have inspired 150 students from more than 20 nations and strengthened their belief in a 100% sustainable future. Speakers as the Nobel Prize winner George Akerlow, Stuart Hart of Ivy League University Cornell, the SEKEM Group Founder and Alternative Nobel Prize laureate Ibrahim Abouleish and representatives of WWF, the Worldbank, McKinsey & Company empowered the participants to take their own steps towards a world that we have reason to value.

oikos is an international student organization engaged in sustainable economics and management since 1987. It is a leading reference point to integrate the tenets of sustainability into teaching and research at the world's leading faculties of management and economics. To commonly move forward towards a global sustainable society, oikos has emphasized the promotion of sustainability change agents for more than 20 years. Its mission is to strengthen action competence for sustainable development among tomorrow's decision makers.