oikos International's
Tell Your Faculty
About Sustainable Development
Program

Now available to download: the second version of the oikos TYFASD, the oikos TYF’05. The portal will soon feature new sections, revised and new texts as well as a revamped "site-structure" + links, quotes and the oikos Factsheets for oikees (oikos members)! Click here or on the picture to download the document. Print sparsely and enjoy! (Use continuous printouts on this version) Click HERE for online viewing.

The oikos Tell Your Faculty About Sustainable Development Programme (TYFASD) is primarily a podium for dialogue between academia and the student community. The oikos TYFASD (hard paper toolkit and internet portal) will help sensitised students in approaching their professors, departments, or universities with the goal of influencing them in offering an education that integrates sustainable development (SD) concerns and knowledge.

be informed,

The important changes that we need to face are best accompanied by a shift in our understanding of development. The sustainability in education agenda aims at making this shift a reality in a distinct segment of society that we are all very much acquainted with: education.

Even in universities that do integrate SD, and even in the ones that are at the cutting edge in SD teaching and research, there is still so much to do! Initiating change is possible! The student voice has its weight!

get involved,

The TYFASD programme blends into the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014 which confronts universities throughout the world with a strong challenge as well as with new opportunities. Universities bear a distinctive responsibility for the professional and moral quality of future leaders. As major contributors to research, they have to tackle scientific questions that arise in connection with the transition of societies around the world towards more sustainable paths.

As significant societal actors, universities shape their local, regional and national environs and are therefore an important partner in setting the agenda for a sustainable future. All these challenges and opportunities require universities to re-think their positions in order to plan for the future. Along with their partners, this is what students inspired by the TYFASD are pushing for.

make a difference!

"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

The oikos TYFASD is sponsored by econsense