FINDING SYNERGIES: RESEARCH PROJECT 'SHARING AND THE CITY'

Urban Sharing researcher Yuliya Voytenko Palgan leads a three year research project Sharing and the City funded by Swedish Research Council Formas. The project aims to examine, test and advance knowledge on the role of city governments in the initiation, implementation and institutionalisation of sharing organisations across cities in Europe. The project has useful synergies with Urban Sharing research, in particular in assessing the pathways for institutionalisation of urban sharing organisations. Learn more about Sharing and the City from this short film.

In cities around the globe we observe an increasing interest in the sharing of goods, services, spaces and skills. There is a hope that sharing can help address urban sustainability challenges. Sharing includes a variety of bottom-up initiatives, public-private-people partnerships, business start-ups and local government schemes, all of which try to better use the idling capacity of our material world.