15 minute city
The 15-Minute City Programme builds on our collaboration with Chaire ETI at IAE Paris-Sorbonne in France. We support cities in creating more inclusive, accessible and sustainable neighbourhoods, where essential services and opportunities are within a short walk, cycle ride or public transport journey. Through participatory methods rooted in local contexts, the programme brings residents and urban development stakeholders together to identify local needs and co-create healthier, safer and better-connected places.
Explore our ongoing projects below.
CitySync – Synchronizing Urban Mobility and Communities for Livable Neighborhoods (November 2025– December 2028)
CitySync is a European innovation project focused on the 15-minute city. It aims to develop more connected, inclusive and sustainable approaches to mobility, local services and governance in suburban and peri-urban areas. The project combines participatory urban development, digital tools and collaboration among municipalities, civil society, researchers and private-sector partners. It is being implemented in three pilot locations: Gebze (Türkiye), Microville 112 in Courcy (France) and Stockholm (Sweden).
Shared City Foundation leads the work in the pilot locations through Project Rooms and is responsible for an inclusive participatory process. By integrating the Her City methodology into each local process, the project places particular emphasis on involving young people and others who are often underrepresented in urban planning.
In June 2026, two workshops in Gebze brought together 74 participants to identify and document barriers and opportunities related to pedestrian accessibility, green spaces and the use of public space.
Through Her City, Shared City Foundation provides a structured way to bring the perspectives of young women, people with disabilities and other underrepresented groups into the project’s next stages.
Her City Sports Facilities (October 2025–2030)
In autumn 2025, Shared City Foundation and the Arwidsson Foundation began a strategic partnership to support the inclusive development of sports facilities and their surrounding areas in Swedish municipalities.
The partnership aims to improve public health by making these spaces more inclusive, with a particular focus on young girls and others who do not currently participate in organised sport or face barriers to using public spaces. The goal is to work with at least two to three municipalities during the partnership’s first year.
During the reporting year, a participatory process in Sollentuna explored how the municipality could operate its newly built Stinsen sports facility. Three design thinking workshops brought together 34 participants, including 30 girls aged 11–16. By the end of the financial year, two more municipalities had expressed interest in starting a process in autumn 2026.
Shared City Foundation contributed the Her City methodology and facilitated the process, ensuring that the girls’ perspectives were gathered systematically in Sollentuna. The results will inform the municipality’s ongoing operation of the sports facility.