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The sharing economy is booming! But what are the impacts on cities and sustainability? This course connects the sharing economy, cities, governance and urban sustainability to provide unique knowledge and insights into sharing cities. We utilize a diversity of leading examples of the emerging sharing economy in cities to bring this course to life. Join the online courseDownload the course guideRea

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-sharing-cities-mooc-massive-open-online-course - 2025-09-29

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Urban Experimentation - Unleashing

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-experimentation-unleashing-creative-capacity-cities - 2025-09-29

Accelerating sustainable transitions Our Annual Report for 2019 is done. Download it here to learn more about the 2019 highlights.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-annual-report-2019 - 2025-09-29

News from the IIIEE, Spring 2020 Read ou latest newsletter here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-newsletter - 2025-09-29

In our project’s first digital newsletter we are opening the dialogue with our participating energy communities, our stakeholders, with you and everyone who is interested in exploring new clean energy communities with us. The NEWCOMERS team explores which types of communities within this spectrum have the greatest potential to stimulate a rapid decarbonisation while creating new values for communi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newcomers-project-first-digital-newsletter - 2025-09-29

Professor Jenny Palm and Postdoctoral fellow Daniela Lazoroska publishes in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Palm, J & Lazoroska, D (2020): Collaborative planning through dialogue models: situated practices, the pursuit of transferability and the role of leadership, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. About the article:Sweden is considered an environmental sustainabil

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-collaborative-dialogues-perspective-situated-practices-transferability-and-role - 2025-09-29

PhD Researcher Steven Curtis and Prof. Oksana Mont publish a new article providing detailed description of sharing economy business model choices, with conditions for improved sustainability performance. About the article:The sharing economy is not sustainable by default. Therefore, there is a need to be strategic and deliberate in how to design sharing economy business models to ensure improved s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-sharing-economy-business-models-sustainability - 2025-09-29

“In a short period of time we have seen some very good examples of nudging, where people are guided towards right behaviour” Professor Oksana Mont was interviewed for Sydsvenskan about the concept of ‘nudging’ in times of Corona.The Corona crisis has lead to a focus on behaving in certain manners, e.g. keeping distance, washing our hands, staying at home if we feel sick etc. The encouragement to v

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-oksana-mont-interviewed-sydsvenskan - 2025-09-29

Researchers from the IIIEE at Lund University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Oksana Mont, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Karin Bradley and Lucie Zvolska publish an Editorial for the Special Issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production on the Sharing Economy Researchers from the IIIEE at Lund University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Oksana Mont, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Karin Bradley and L

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-decade-sharing-economy-concepts-users-business-and-governance-perspectives - 2025-09-29

Starting this week, EMP MSc theses are defended all the way through June. Remote sensing to make supply chains more sustainable, Designing medical products for circularity, Managing plastics waste in California or Cost-Benefits of green roofs as carbon sinks? A sweet mix of talent and hot topics as batch 25 are presenting their master thesis research.This week we will have master's thesis defences

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/emp-msc-theses-defences-start-week - 2025-09-29

- Kes McCormick sets new record! IIIEE Associate Professor Kes McCormick has achieved over 160,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications (LUP), which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University.Recently, Kes McCormick has become the most downloaded author at Lund University. Currently, his most downloaded publication is the Greening the E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/most-downloads-lund-university - 2025-09-29

A delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority are visiting the IIIEE to discuss continuing collaboration in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform.For more information, please contact mikael [dot] backman [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Mikael Backman)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/delegation-west-pomeranian-regional-authority-are-visiting-iiiee - 2025-09-29

Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl and colleagues from Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Germany publish new article in Nature and Culture "Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life. Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research", Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl. Nature and Culture, vol. 15:2.Abstract: The arti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-plastic-packaging-food-supply-and-everyday-life - 2025-09-29

Welcome to the 2020 City Futures Summit on Thursday 8 October 2020 between 12.00-14.00 CET – an online event connecting people, places and projects around the world! Check out the website for the City Futures Summit to learn more about the event – www.cityfutures.seRegister here for the event 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-website-city-futures-summit - 2025-09-29

Doctoral student in Sustainable urban governance on mission-oriented innovation The doctoral student will work in the area of sustainable urban governance with a focus on mission-oriented innovation.The transformation to a sustainable society involves a multitude of actors including municipalities, business, public organizations and citizens, together advancing new knowledge and going beyond tradi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vacancy-iiiee - 2025-09-29

There is growing attention on green stimulus recovery packages around the world, and policy-oriented research and expertise at the IIIEE is being increasingly considered to support policy initiatives in this important area. Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) launched the development of the ‘World Energy Outlook Special Report on Sustainable Recovery’. The IIIEE Policy Analysis theme w

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-policy-analysis-theme-contributes-iea-special-report-sustainable-recovery - 2025-09-29

Redesigning our economies and communities in the face of pandemics and crises. In this article, Kes McCormick, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Charlotte Leire at IIIEE, present the ambitions and design of a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on five ways to shape the sharing economy in cities.The article is published on the Viable Cities website, an innovation programme for smart and sustainable cit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/five-ways-shape-sharing-economy-cities - 2025-09-29

"Circular Economy in Home Textiles: Motivations of IKEA Consumers in Sweden" Ever wondered what motivates consumers to engage in circular home textile disposal practices? IIIEE researchers Matthias Lehner, Oksana Mont, Giulia Mariani, and Luis Mundaca have just published a study in Sustainability, answering this question based on a sample of IKEA Consumers in Sweden. Abstract (by the authors):If p

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication - 2025-09-29

Luftföroreningar är en av de främsta orsakerna till sjuklighet och för tidig död över hela världen. I en forskningsstudie från Lunds universitet på uppdrag av miljöförvaltningen i Malmö, gjordes en hälsokonsekvensanalys för att uppskatta hälsoeffekterna av en hypotetisk miljözon i Malmö. Miljözoner, eller lågutsläppszoner, är områden där de mest förorenande fordonen regleras. Vanligtvis innebär de

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/miljozoner-skulle-kunna-radda-liv - 2025-09-29

Mellan 1998 och 2019 ökade andelen vårddygn med infektionsdiagnos i Sverige från 11 till 21 procent. Ökningen har skett i alla åldersgrupper, men är störst hos personer över 80 år. Det visar en studie från Lunds universitet som publicerats i tidskriften The Lancet Regional Public Health. Infektionssjukdomar är en bred sjukdomsgrupp som inkluderar bland annat sepsis, lunginflammation och urinvägsin

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/allt-fler-med-infektionsdiagnos-pa-svenska-sjukhus - 2025-09-29