Committing Universities to Sustainable Development Graz, 20 th to 23 rd April.2005

1. Committing Universities to Sustainable DevelopmentGraz, 20th to 23rd April.2005 Students as main actors for change.The Tell Your Faculty About Sustainable Development Programme’s contribution to the UN Decade Mathieu Régnier, oikos International (Montréal, Canada)

2. BEING AWARE that education is a primary lever to narrow the gap between todays business practice and the guiding principles of Sustainable Development;RECOGNIZING that visions and strategies toclose this gap are not adequately integratedinto the current teaching and research of theworld’s faculties for business and economics;AND STRONGLY BELIEVING that todays ecological problems should be targeted on a global scale;1998 … WE HAVE TEAMED UP to initiate the foundation and support the activities of an internationalstudent organization for sustainable economics and management named oikos

3. Session C-1 « Opportunities to improve the role of universities in society » This is it! Enhanced role of universities in society, new identities for universities, participation of stakeholders within and outside universities How? Integration of SD into research and teaching

4. "Universities should not just train people to run companies but should train students to be tomorrow's global environmental managers" Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean, Yale School of Management "Universities should not just train people to run companies BUT should train students to be tomorrow's global environmental managers" Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean, Yale School of Management

5. OUR PITCH… the Tell Your Faculty About Sustainable Development (TYFASD) programme: A) TYF 05 Toolkit: How to make sustainable development an integral part of business schools’ curricula, worldwide! B) an interactive web portal C) our desire to work together as a community!

6. OUR PRODUCT… the TYF 05 Toolkit (the second edition of a hard copy document)1st edition: 2003 The TYF 05 Toolkit is 70 (or so) page publication with drawings.Visually, it is a very attractive document that will stand out! (target: undergrads) The Toolkit’s purpose is to attract attention to the importance of having students push for a change towards sustainability concerns into university level teaching and research, by providing very simple and clear steps on how this can be done (an A-B-C)

7. OUR BY-PRODUCT… the TYF WEB PORTAL Interactive Web PORTAL will be released in August 2005, in time to support the efforts of the United Nations Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). • Resources (business case studies, oikos Factsheets, green syllabus, oikos step-by-step, links, reference documents…) • News, events, forums, sharing experiences • Section for the oikos Winter School oikos.tyfasd.org more NOW ONLINE!

8. the TYF WEB PORTALa complete information management solution A Unified Approach • Content creation • Content management • Information sharing • Intelligent information dissemination Ideal for virtual communities Creation of workspaces for interest groups Notification of activity in content User-friendly tools A Cohesive Result • Intranet • Internet • Extranet •Communities of practice Structured information Online surveys Secure and confidential information hub

9. Ideal for a virtual community, with little time for IT juggling… between the student’s desk …and laptop

10. OUR ADDED VALUE… the oikos network • will be promoted and distributed within the oikos network, such as at oikos conferences and special events. • oikos chapters are currently located on three continents and are mostly present at leading business schools, such as ESSEC (France), ICHEC (Brussels), London School of Economics (UK), Stanford Graduate School of Business (US), Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), University of Cologne (Germany), University of Economics in Prague (Czech Republic), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). • with regards to the promotion of the Toolkit outside the oikos network, several international organisations of students or universities – such as AIESEC, University Leaders for a Sustainable Future and NetImpact – are partners. • other universities and NGOs, have already teamed up with oikos or expressed interest in a closer partnership. The European Academy for Business in Society, the Copernicus Campus and Ecco are examples of such organisations. dissemination

11. OUR EXEC’ SUMMARY Our programme aims to empower students with ideas and motivation for convincing their faculty to integrate the concept of sustainable development in business and management schools' curricula. The case studies, fact sheets and other materials are based on contributions gathered from universities around the world, which makes the TYF 05 Toolkit a contribution by students, for students.It is a straightforward, bottom up approach claiming that business education should better address the long-term economic, environmental and social trends facing our world. + a podium for dialogue between academia and the student community.

12. OUR BOTTOM-LINE… there is more to economics than business « 97% of the MBAs in the sample said they were willing to forgo financial benefits to work for an organization with a better reputation for corporate social responsibility and ethics ». David B. Montgomery, Stanford and Catherine A. Ramus of UC Santa Barbaraone common objective: a sustainable economy

13. OUR THANK-YOU Share your experience for the benefit of all! Get back to us follow-up on our Graz discussions! regnier@oikosinternational.org tremblay@oikosinternational.org oikos.tyfasd.org