In December 2018 in the online magazine for the Sharing Cities Alliance there is an interview article with Simo Sulkakoski from Lund University on the role of municipalities in developing and shaping the sharing economy. The article is based on research by Simo Sulkakoski for Sharing Cities Sweden into cities in Sweden focusing on Malmö and Göteborg.
Read MoreOn 12-15 November 2018, Sharing Cities Sweden (including the national node and all the test-beds) attended both the Sharing Cities Summit and Smart Cities Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The summit brings together representatives from local government with a mix of people from academia and business. The congress is the leading event for smart cities with over 20,000 people in attendance.
Read MoreA mobile research lab was organized in Gothenburg on 16 October 2018. The purpose of the mobile research lab was to explore sharing services and the developing sharing economy in Gothenburg.
Read MoreThe i-share team at Mannheim University, Germany organised the 5th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy on 28th and 29th June 2018. The previous Workshop was organised by our Urban Sharing team in Lund, which sent out a team of three researchers to participate at this year’s sharing event of the year: Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Lucie Zvolska and Steven Curtis.
Read MoreAn evaluations workshop for Sharing Cities Sweden was organised in Gothenburg on 20 June 2018. The purpose of the event was to share knowledge and experiences of the sharing economy in cities and to continue to identify synergies and opportunities between the test-beds in Sharing Cities Sweden.
Read MoreSharing City Malmö organised a study tour in Gothenburg on 19 June 2018. The purpose of the study tour was to learn about the sharing economy activities in Gothenburg
Read MoreThe Urban Sharing team works closely with colleagues at the IIIEE, including Kes McCormick and Charlotte Leire, who coordinate the Sharing Cities Sweden national programme. In April, the Sharing Cities Sweden programme hosted its launch event and workshop on 23 and 24 April respectively. Oksana Mont and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan took part in the events, offering insights from the team's most recent mobile research labs.
Read MoreA new article “Urban Sharing in Smart Cities: The Cases of Berlin and London” has been published as part of Urban Sharing and Sharing and the City projects. The article develops a conceptual framework that specifies the roles that cities play when governing urban sharing: city as regulator, city as provider, city as enabler and city as consumer. It explores similarities and differences for these roles in the cities of Berlin and London.
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Sharing and the City researcher Yuliya Voytenko Palgan organised a mobile research lab in Malmö on 7 March 2018. The purpose of the mobile research lab was to explore sharing services and the development of the sharing economy in Malmö.
Read MoreUrban 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.
Read MoreAn evaluations workshop for Sharing Cities Sweden was organised in Lund on 26 February 2018. The purpose of the event was to share knowledge and experiences with evaluations of the sharing economy in cities and to identify synergies and opportunities between the test-beds in Sharing Cities Sweden and ongoing research projects
Read MoreOksana Mont, Andrius Plepys, Yuliya Voytenko and Lucie Zvolska of the Urban Sharing team undertook mobile research lab (MRL) in London 12th-17th November 2017. The aim of the MRL was to observe, explore and experience the sharing environment in London.
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Sharing and the City PI Yuliya Voytenko Palgan introduced and kicked off Sharing and the City project with a poster presented at Earth System Governance held in Lund, Sweden, on 9-11 October 2017.
Read MoreResearchers Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Steven Curtis presented their research at the past discussion hosted by the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) called “The Urban Planet”. Yuliya presented her past research on Urban Living Labs, while Steven motivated an emerging definition for the sharing economy. Drawing on existing literature, including The Social Logics of Sharing by Nicholas John, Steven conceptualised sharing as an act of division into equal parts; as an act of distribution; as an act of communication; as a form of common ownership; or as a form of individual expression online
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