17/05/2018

The event “SharEEN” took place in the Technological Institute of the Canary Islands in Tenerife last Thursday, May 17. In this event you can find numerous initiatives and collaborative economy platforms that operate in different sectors of the Islands and that have allowed to draw the current context of the collaborative economy in the region. It also helped identify the main barriers faced by this business model, and it proposed actions that support the development of these initiatives.

During the first part of the event different initiatives were presented based on the shared use of assets and resources in different sectors of the economy. The Canary Association of Collaborative Spaces (ACEC) is a representative space for the co-working of the Canary Islands. They try to become a single channel where you can find all the different co-working activities in the region. In addition, they offers different services: dissemination of events, legal advices, web, space management, etc. They also try to attract outside experiences to present their projects, thus increasing the visibility of this type of initiative for fostering collaboration possibilities. El Salon initiative presented the benefits of 'co-working' or collaborative work spaces as an innovative work alternative that fosters participatory culture among entrepreneurs from different disciplines. The Commonomia association presented its activity in the development of social economy projects through a collaborative ecosystem between interconnected communities. This association contributes to create relationships between physical and virtual people. Using the Communify tool to map collaborative economy experiences and their projects, it publicize them and encourage exchanges. It is a showcase for all entities (cooperative platforms, virtual spaces, currencies and physical spaces).

Espacio 105 is an example of Civic Factory: is a collaborative space project for citizen empowerment, initiatives of a cultural and social nature. Finally, Crowdants showed the model of collective financing, known as 'crowdfunding', applied to promote cultural, social, creative or entrepreneurial projects through the mobilization of a related community.

Furthermore, other initiatives were presented in the Islands such as the Kreitek 'maker space' in Tenerife, the co-working space El Núcleo de Gran Canaria and, from the Innovation Service of the Ministry of Education and Universities, the creative FabLab spaces: laboratories of ideas that foster creativity and innovation in teaching.

During the second part of the event were presented the results of the “MapJam Canarias”, the mapping of the Sharing Economy initiatives identified in the Canary Islands. Attendees to the event, through different participatory methodologies, helped to integrate the map presented.

In conclusion, work groups (through the Focus group methodology) were divided by category, to analyze the main problems and barriers of each group and proposals for action were collected.

Download Speakers Presentatios in Spanish:

El Salón

Commonomia

CrowdAnts

Espacio 105

ACEC

ITC

More info: http://web.itccanarias.org/web/prensa/noticias/np_jornada_proyecto_europeo_shareen.jsp?lang=es