About
A colorful set of students from around the world covering events and issues in the field of sustainability economics and management.
We offer sustainability related social media services to events all over the globe. Our global reporter teams add values and value through either broadening the scope of sustainability events or exploring the sustainability aspects of conventional business or economics related events with a creative, critical, and prospective attitude.
The student reporter programme provides real time training to sustainability driven undergraduate and graduate students, in particular business and economics students, in social media advocacy and online journalism.
The Programme is jointly organized by oikos and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland
oikos
oikos is the leading organisation for sustainable economics and management and a reference point for the promotion of sustainability change agents. oikos activities comprise of a wide range of projects including student-run initiatives at universities, PhD research on sustainability-related topics and academics-targeted activities on sustainability case writing and teaching.
Mercator Foundation Switzerland
The Mercator Foundation Switzerland is one of Switzerland’s largest foundations. It initiates and funds projects that promote better educational opportunities in schools and universities. It supports initiatives that embody the idea of open-mindedness and tolerance through intercultural encounters, encouraging the sharing of knowledge and culture. The foundation provides a platform for new ideas to enable people – regardless of their national, cultural or social background – to develop their personality, become involved in society and make the most of the opportunities available to them.
The Mercator Foundation Switzerland supports the project “Student Reporter” and the World Resources Forum 2011.
Welcome message by Albert Kesseli, Director Mercator Foundation Switzerland (PDF Download)