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The Innovation Booster Future Urban Society seeks and promotes radical ideas from research and real-world practice in order to further disseminate or strengthen the impact of the most promising social innovations for climate-friendly housing, mobility and nutrition.Please note the guidelines, attached as a document called ‘EN - Idea Submission Guidelines’.How might we … ... make the benefits of “sharing” tangible and promote them better? ... make it easier to share things?... promote sharing with new processes, roles and services?... debunk the myth of high costs? Because “owning” is usually more expensive and often requires more effort than “sharing”.... make “sharing” attractive for people who can afford everything? ... increase transparency, commitment and trust in sharing platforms?... make sharing safer with new insurance solutions? ... foster individual responsibility for shared things?... create scalable sharing networks - neighbourly, local, regional, national and global - for a wide range of products? Many people own goods that are rarely used. The average drill runs for 11 minutes a lifetime. Cars are parked for an average of 23 hours a day. If consumer goods were more often shared, less would have to be produced and the respective resources and emissions could be saved. For example, one shared car can replace ten private vehicles. This not only saves on their production, but also reduces the need for parking spaces and thereby frees up traffic areas for other uses.“Owning” usually has a positive connotation: It often means status, independence and availability. “Sharing”, on the other hand, can be read as a sign of poverty and cause fears of a lack of availability. In addition, the one-time cost of buying is usually perceived as lower than the recurring costs of renting.Commercial and non-commercial sharing offers aim to optimize under-utilized resources. This includes improving access to products and services, tapping into new sources of income, building social ties, extending the lifespan of goods and promoting recycling. At best, sharing is an opportunity for individual emancipation, community, an easier life and ecological progress. Criticism of the sharing economy, particularly the large peer-to-peer platforms (such as online marketplaces and services), also exposes the dangers: Business models are developing which destabilize employment relationships and can undermine the achievements of regulated companies and paid work.The FUS challenge Sharing as Social Innovation is promoting answers to the overarching FUS question: How will we live in urban Switzerland in the future?We are calling for radical ideas to implement sharing as a basic socio-ecological principle in many places. We are looking for processes, products, platforms, offers or programs that promote sharing in a wide range of areas. However, ideas that focus on individual areas or consumer goods (e.g. means of transportation, gardening tools, event equipment) are also conceivable.In an open innovation process, we foster the exchange between the interested public and those responsible for research and practice in the areas of peer-to-peer approaches, sharing and circular economy, etc., planning authorities, politics and the investment side. The Canton of Basel-Stadt is available as a point of contact and provides its own expertise and data. For suitable projects, the canton provides support in the search for concrete test opportunities.Join in and help to spread the social innovation of sharing and secure financial and methodological support as well as valuable contacts for further steps in an interdisciplinary team!What are we looking for?We are looking for radical ideas to make the most promising social innovations viable for the majority - with the involvement of civil society, business, administration and/or politics. Are you working on relevant offers, services, organizational forms, business and impact models, communication and intervention strategies or strategic experiments? We facilitate the implementation of feasibility, user or market studies or the development of models and prototypes that help to demonstrate and test potential solutions.We look forward to finding solutions that will increase and multiply the contribution of social innovations to a climate-friendly and liveable urban society of the future. Who can apply?In accordance with Innosuisse's guidelines, only mixed teams with members from at least one research and one implementing partner can apply. The events in the Challenge Stage allow individual players to find each other. If a project team lacks a research partner, we can try to help out. Contact matchmaking@futureurbansociety.ch for this or for other networking. We can only award funding to legal entities - cooperatives, associations, foundations, companies, universities, cities, etc. - from Switzerland. The use and distribution of financial resources in the sponsored teams is carried out independently, but is accountable.The research partners include university research institutes, non-commercial research centers outside the university sector, research institutes of the departments with their own research projects and federal research institutes. Implementation partners are all private and public actors who can put ideas into practice or at least have a share in doing so.How can the funds be used?The funding can be used for feasibility, utilization or market studies. Where possible and appropriate, the development of models and prototypes to illustrate and test solutions is financed. The funds can be used flexibly for specific purposes, e.g. to pay salaries, purchase equipment and materials, observation and interview research, travel expenses, organization of roundtables, workshops, etc.A part of the funds is reserved for the content-related and methodological support of experts in the respective fields.What needs to be submitted?We are currently working on a submission kit. This will include a template, all the questions to be answered and everything else about the procedure. Follow this Open Call and you will be automatically informed when we publish the kit.Anyone who has taken part in one of our Open Innovation events or calls is eligible for funding. We are still fine-tuning the dates. The following are already public:We are planning further events and calls. They will be announced promptly on our website and by newsletter.You can find more details on how to participate on the website https://www.futureurbansociety.ch.If you have any questions, please check the FAQ first. If you still have questions after that, please contact us at info@futureurbansociety.ch

Challenge Metadata

Challenge Name: Sharing Sharing Sharing
Date: 12/13/2024 12:44:11 PM
Administrators:
- Anaïs Sägesser |
- Mirko Fischli |
- Björn Müller

Challenge Description

The Innovation Booster Future Urban Society seeks and promotes radical ideas from research and real-world practice in order to further disseminate or strengthen the impact of the most promising social innovations for climate-friendly housing, mobility and nutrition.

Please note the guidelines, attached as a document called ‘EN - Idea Submission Guidelines’.

How might we …

... make the benefits of “sharing” tangible and promote them better?
... make it easier to share things?
... promote sharing with new processes, roles and services?
... debunk the myth of high costs? Because “owning” is usually more expensive and often requires more effort than “sharing”.
... make “sharing” attractive for people who can afford everything?
... increase transparency, commitment and trust in sharing platforms?
... make sharing safer with new insurance solutions?
... foster individual responsibility for shared things?
... create scalable sharing networks - neighbourly, local, regional, national and global - for a wide range of products?

Many people own goods that are rarely used. The average drill runs for 11 minutes a lifetime. Cars are parked for an average of 23 hours a day. If consumer goods were more often shared, less would have to be produced and the respective resources and emissions could be saved. For example, one shared car can replace ten private vehicles. This not only saves on their production, but also reduces the need for parking spaces and thereby frees up traffic areas for other uses.

“Owning” usually has a positive connotation: It often means status, independence and availability. “Sharing”, on the other hand, can be read as a sign of poverty and cause fears of a lack of availability. In addition, the one-time cost of buying is usually perceived as lower than the recurring costs of renting.

Commercial and non-commercial sharing offers aim to optimize under-utilized resources. This includes improving access to products and services, tapping into new sources of income, building social ties, extending the lifespan of goods and promoting recycling.

At best, sharing is an opportunity for individual emancipation, community, an easier life and ecological progress. Criticism of the sharing economy, particularly the large peer-to-peer platforms (such as online marketplaces and services), also exposes the dangers: Business models are developing which destabilize employment relationships and can undermine the achievements of regulated companies and paid work.

The FUS challenge Sharing as Social Innovation is promoting answers to the overarching FUS question: How will we live in urban Switzerland in the future?

We are calling for radical ideas to implement sharing as a basic socio-ecological principle in many places. We are looking for processes, products, platforms, offers or programs that promote sharing in a wide range of areas. However, ideas that focus on individual areas or consumer goods (e.g. means of transportation, gardening tools, event equipment) are also conceivable.

In an open innovation process, we foster the exchange between the interested public and those responsible for research and practice in the areas of peer-to-peer approaches, sharing and circular economy, etc., planning authorities, politics and the investment side. The Canton of Basel-Stadt is available as a point of contact and provides its own expertise and data. For suitable projects, the canton provides support in the search for concrete test opportunities.

Join in and help to spread the social innovation of sharing and secure financial and methodological support as well as valuable contacts for further steps in an interdisciplinary team!

What are we looking for?

We are looking for radical ideas to make the most promising social innovations viable for the majority - with the involvement of civil society, business, administration and/or politics. Are you working on relevant offers, services, organizational forms, business and impact models, communication and intervention strategies or strategic experiments?

We facilitate the implementation of feasibility, user or market studies or the development of models and prototypes that help to demonstrate and test potential solutions.

We look forward to finding solutions that will increase and multiply the contribution of social innovations to a climate-friendly and liveable urban society of the future.

Who can apply?

In accordance with Innosuisse's guidelines, only mixed teams with members from at least one research and one implementing partner can apply. The events in the Challenge Stage allow individual players to find each other. If a project team lacks a research partner, we can try to help out. Contact matchmaking@futureurbansociety.ch for this or for other networking.

We can only award funding to legal entities - cooperatives, associations, foundations, companies, universities, cities, etc. - from Switzerland.

The use and distribution of financial resources in the sponsored teams is carried out independently, but is accountable.

The research partners include university research institutes, non-commercial research centers outside the university sector, research institutes of the departments with their own research projects and federal research institutes.

Implementation partners are all private and public actors who can put ideas into practice or at least have a share in doing so.

How can the funds be used?

The funding can be used for feasibility, utilization or market studies. Where possible and appropriate, the development of models and prototypes to illustrate and test solutions is financed. The funds can be used flexibly for specific purposes, e.g. to pay salaries, purchase equipment and materials, observation and interview research, travel expenses, organization of roundtables, workshops, etc.

A part of the funds is reserved for the content-related and methodological support of experts in the respective fields.

What needs to be submitted?

We are currently working on a submission kit. This will include a template, all the questions to be answered and everything else about the procedure. Follow this Open Call and you will be automatically informed when we publish the kit.

Anyone who has taken part in one of our Open Innovation events or calls is eligible for funding.

We are still fine-tuning the dates. The following are already public:

We are planning further events and calls. They will be announced promptly on our website and by newsletter.

You can find more details on how to participate on the website https://www.futureurbansociety.ch.

If you have any questions, please check the FAQ first. If you still have questions after that, please contact us at info@futureurbansociety.ch