“Sharing and the city” PROJECT collaborates with INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS to ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE ON THE SHARING ECONOMY IN CITIES AND THE ROLE OF MUNICIPALITIES IN GOVERNING THE SHARING ECONOMY
Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is also a researcher in the Urban Sharing programme. It is a five year research programme that aims to examine, test and advance knowledge about design, sustainability of practices and institutionalisation pathways of urban sharing organisations across 5 cities: Amsterdam, Melbourne, Seoul, Shanghai and Toronto. It is led by Prof. Oksana Mont, Lund University, Sweden, and it is funded by the ERC under the EU Horizon 2020 (GA No 771872).
Sharing Cities Sweden aims to put Sweden on the map as a country that actively and critically works with the sharing economy in cities. It is a national program with a budget of 12 million euro over 4 years. Sharing Cities Sweden is a part of Viable Cities - a strategic innovation program for smart and sustainable cities. The objectives of the programme are to develop world-leading test-beds for the sharing economy in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå as well as develop a national node to significantly improve national and international cooperation and promote an exchange of experience on sharing cities. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan contributes to Sharing Cities Sweden with case studies of Malmö and Gothenburg, and active participation in the programme’s workshops and practitioner events.
Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan collaborates with Shareable team by communicating her research from Sharing and the City project on Shareable homepage. For example, Yuliya has contributed with six blogposts and six short videos, which discuss the mechanisms and roles through which municipalities govern the sharing economy.
Yuliya Voytenko Palgan learns from and communicates her research outputs through the Sharing Cities Alliance, which is a global network of municipalities seeking to exchange experiences with the sharing economy and learn from each other. The Sharing Cities Alliance offers its partners the tools, knowledge and network to capitalise on the opportunities and address the challenges of the digital decade. Together with the Sharing Cities Alliance, her colleagues at Lund University and the City of Malmö, Yuliya co-hosted Sharing Cities Summit 2019 in Lund and Malmö, Sweden.
Non-governmental organisation Collaborative Economy Gothenburg (KEG) seeks to make it easier to rent, share, borrow, give/receive instead of buying new. They advocate a fair distribution of resources that consumes less natural resources and encourages a higher level of trust between people. KEG has, among other things, developed the Smart Map of over 100 sharing and collaborative economy initiatives in Gothenburg. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan learns from KEG knowledge and experience, and expands the outreach of her findings through their large network. She also participated in a MapJam of sharing and collaborative economy initiatives in Malmö, which has led to the creation of the Smart Map Malmö.