Many hands make light work
Implementation of resource wisdom requires comprehensive multidisciplinary and cross-organisational cooperation, resources and commitment. The City of Jyväskylä promotes resource wisdom locally, across the country and internationally through various projects and networks.
Ongoing projects
GOOD CITIES project - Cities stimulating new shared economy services for consumer goods in urban environments.
The aim of the project is to help cities structure the local sharing economy of goods to develop local sharing ecosystems, promote more sustainable consumption and improve social cohesion. Additionally, it seeks to increase the visibility of sharing and proactive leadership, achieve consumer behaviour changes, creating a resource-conscious future within planetary boundaries, and supporting EU and local environmental policies. Partners do this through international knowledge transfer as well as working with local stakeholder groups, leveraging policy instruments and engaging citizens and local communities.
Through GOOD CITIES, Jyväskylä will establish a network of partners to enhance the sharing economy and create an understanding of opportunities for local businesses. The aim is to examine how sharing initiatives could enliven the city but also to design and implement a PPPP pilot of a fnancially sustainable shared multi-use building. The GOOD CITIES will allow advancing an existing concept where private small companies and other partners become
users. Space and good-sharing, green architecture, digitalisation, financing, ownership etc. will be explored.
The GOOD CITIES project is made possible by financial support from the European Union through the Interreg Europe programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
For more information, visit the project's website (link to the website).
Completed projects
Networks
Jyväskylä is a forerunner of circular economy
Circular economy is smart actions in conjunction with the daily lives of all residents in the municipality. The City of Jyväskylä and nine other trailblazer municipalities have committed to ambitious and concrete measures to promote circular economy.