Each participant has the opportunity to have a concrete impact on the University of St. Gallen (HSG) by participating in one of the seven workshops.  More detailed information on the workshops will be made available shortly.

1. Freshman Year (Assessmentstufe) [in German]

 

The (academic) freshmen’s year is used by the HSG to select the most qualified and motivated incoming undergraduate students. Its academic approach is broad, encompassing studies in law, economics, and business. As of now, social responsibility is not a selection criterion. The workshop’s initiators aim to change this by looking at the orientation week and exploring other opportunities within the freshmen’s year curriculum.

 

 

2. Contextual Studies [in German]

 

The contextual studies domain is the main electives section of the HSG curriculum. At the moment, there are some electives addressing social responsibility issues, but not all of these are popular with students and their number is fairly limited. The question here is: What can be done with regard to course curricula and visiting professors in order to motivate the mainstream students to choose these electives?

 

 

3. Strategic Management

 

In this workshop the initiators want to analyze the curriculum of strategic management at the HSG and try to integrate social responsibility "horizontally" instead of the vertical way it is integrated currently.

For this workshop, (some) knowledge of strategic management is required.

 

 

4. MBA Workshop

 

How to transform a mainstream MBA in a sustainable mainstream MBA? Course development, practical programs, greening the MBA institution, sustainable partnerships and other innovative ideas will be turned in concrete projects in this workshop.

 

 

5. PhD Platform

 

Although there are many PhD students doing research in the broad domain of sustainability, they often do not know of each others’ work. This workshop is the start of the oikos PhD platform which will bring these PhD students together, organize several meetings every year and stimulate the exchange and excellence of research in the sustainability field.

It is open for PhD students only.

 

 

6. Student Union [in German]

 

The number of students engaging in extra-curricular activities has been decreasing in recent years. Many students see their studies as an unfortunate but necessary step before starting their career, and try to graduate as soon as possible. With this workshop, the student union wants to develop concrete projects to encourage student’s extra-curricular engagement.

 

This workshop highly welcomes students from the University of St.Gallen that are interested in continuing to work on the implementation of the developed project(s), but is open for all interested participants.

  

7. Student Initiative

 

For-profit management is one of the pillars of the University of St. Gallen, but as a consequence, non-profit management has been neglected. St. Gallen Student Marcel Feuer wants to change this and has worked together with the Centre for Social Enterprise of the HSG on a "change plan". The workshop will put this plan into more concrete terms and design projects aimed at getting non-profit management and non-profit organizations back to the University of St. Gallen.