OIKOS, the International Student Organization for Sustainable Economics And Management has given the permission to open the first local chapter of OIKOS in Dhaka. Now OIKOS has 16 worldwide chapters among them, Stanford University of U.S.A and London School of Economics included. This is the first time BRAC University (BU) got exclusive affiliation to open an international students chapter in Bangladesh. To inaugurate OIKOS activities in BU, the members of OIKOS-BU organised a daylong awareness campaign with official inauguration of OIKOS, Dhaka Chapter at BU on September 29,2005. The cake-cutting ceremony of OIKOS Dhaka chapter was inaugurated by Professor J R Choudhury, VC BU. Faculty members of ESS, Participants from NSU and Executive Director, OIKOS also spoke on the occasion.