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.
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.
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