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Julia Skupchenko

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Julia Skupchenko in 2020

Julia Skupchenko (born 17 May 1990) is a Dutch entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of AlterContacts, the Think Tank for Sustainable Development.[1][2][3]

In 2020 she launched the Lockdown Economy, a nonprofit to help small businesses and self-employed overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5]

Early life and education

Skupchenko was born and raised in the Komi Republic, in the Arctic region of Russia.[6] She holds a bachelor's degree in Circumpolar Sciences from the University of Nordland (Norway), and two master's degrees from the Syktyvkar State University in International Relations and in Political Sciences.[7] She received several grants, including the North2North Mobility grant to study abroad in Norway (2010), Canada (2011) and Sweden (2013).[8] In 2023-24, Julia was doing a PhD in Civil Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.[citation needed]

Research

During the years of higher education (2007-2014), she presented her research work on the Sustainable Development of the Arctic at more than fifty conferences.[9]

In 2013 as an early career researcher, Skupchenko co-chaired a session on “Arctic People and Resources: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks” during the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Krakow, Poland.[10] After which she became an International Research Associate at the Canadian Polar Commission.[8] In 2016, Skupchenko co-authored two articles for the Encyclopedia of the Barents Region.[11][12]

Since co-founding of the Think Tank AlterContacts in 2019, Julia has been leading research on SDG and small businesses.

Professional career

At the age of 22, at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Norway, Skupchenko was recruited by Royal Dutch Shell and moved to the Netherlands.[6] At Shell her role was stakeholder coordinator for Shell's Arctic drilling operations.

After leaving her corporate position, Skupchenko became an entrepreneur in the Netherlands. For one of her clients, she co-authored an internally published playbook about best practices to run digital innovation for a multinational corporation with over 30,000 employees.[13]

Since 2019, Skupchenko is a guest writer for Entrepreneur.com.[1][13] The same year she was a mentor in the Artificial Intelligence program at Rockstart Accelerator.[7][14]

In 2019 Julia co-founded AlterContacts, the Think Tank for Sustainable Development in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with the main mission of empowering entrepreneurship and eradicating ignorance.[15][14][16]

In 2020, Think Tank AlterContacts launched AlterContacts Academy for Sustainable Development. In 2021 it was registered as a partner of the United Nations Higher Education Sustainability Initiative. Its main program, Lockdown Economy Challenge, aims to train students in Sustainable and Innovative Entrepreneurship. It is an SDG-focused co-curricular program for tertiary education students: action-based learning where they address real-life challenges, specifically economic crises caused by the pandemic, as part of broader education for SDG.[17][18][19][20]

Response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The same year, Skupchenko launched the Lockdown Economy to help small businesses and self-employed overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][21] In 2021 she gave a TEDx talk[22] based on the Lockdown Economy story highlighting the role of small businesses in reactivating the economy.[23]

Lockdown Economy

In March 2021, the Lockdown Economy became the finalist from the Netherlands in the Charlemagne Youth Prize 2021.[2][24]

Selected publications

  • AlterContacts, Think Tank (2021-10-09). Manandhar, Sujan lal; Marciano, Grace Ann; Valtetsiotis, Konstantinos; Skupchenko, Julia, eds. Lockdown Economy Nepal: Unity and cooperation to overcome the pandemic. Think Tank AlterContacts. Search this book on
  • AlterContacts, Think Tank (2021-08-18). Lockdown Economy Middle East: Weathering the Pandemic as a Community. Think Tank AlterContacts. Search this book on
  • AlterContacts, Think Tank (2021-05-12). Skupchenko, Julia; Mercuri, Massimo, eds. Lockdown Economy Netherlands: The makers' journey through the pandemic. Think Tank AlterContacts. Search this book on
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2021-02-23). "How to Scale A Sustainable Non-profit Initiative On Zero-Budget". The Helm. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2021-02-23). "How to Scale A Sustainable Non-profit Initiative On Zero-Budget". Medium. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2020-06-23). "Is Your Business Idea Ready to Get Funded?". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2020-05-05). "How COVID-19 Sparked Innovative Entrepreneurship on the Pan-European Scale". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2020-04-23). "How to Keep Mental Health and Entrepreneurial Drive in the Time of Pandemic". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2020-02-11). "Simple Principles of the 'New Entrepreneurs'". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2019-11-26). "What Makes Women Entrepreneurs Fail or Stand Out". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  • Skupchenko, Julia (2019-11-12). "How to Innovate in a Small Family Store to Avoid Bankruptcy". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-11.

Academic publications

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skupchenko, Julia. "Julia Skupchenko". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Julia Skupchenko, Co-founder of AlterContacts". Hustle Amsterdam. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  3. ↑ "Gefeliciteerd!". www.europarl.europa.eu (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Epoka University | Lockdown Economy: Helping Small Businesses to Overcome the Pandemic". bus.epoka.edu.al. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  5. ↑ "Lockdown Economy - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "'By chance, I ended up in one of the most advanced and safest countries in the world'". DutchNews.nl. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Жить так, чтобы собой можно было гордиться". www.syktsu.ru (in русский). Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2021-03-10. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Как попасть на учебу за рубеж?". www.syktsu.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2021-03-10.[permanent dead link]
  9. ↑ "Сыктывкарская студентка три года подряд получает президентскую стипендию — КомиОнлайн". komionline.ru. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  10. ↑ "Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - Early Career Conveners at the ASSW 2013". www.apecs.is. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  11. ↑ Aho, S.; Ananyina, Anastasia; Espiritu, Aileen A.; Gelter, H.; Gerashchenko, Ludmila; Kiselev, A.; Kotyrlo, E.; Mulina, Tatiana; Pavlova, E. N. (2016). "Tourism in the Barents Region". Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ Kotyrlo, E.; Skupchenko, Julia (2014). "Russian Arctic Exploration". Polar Record. doi:10.1017/s0032247400001443. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Julia Skupchenko". Rockstart. Retrieved 2021-03-10.[permanent dead link]
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Start Ups & Downs - Feb. 26th". Team Academy. 2020-02-25. Archived from the original on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2021-03-10. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  15. ↑ "Как сыктывкарка учит бизнесу студентов и предпринимателей в Нидерландах". БНК (in русский). Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  16. ↑ Mayab, Universidad Anáhuac. "Clase online: Four lessons from the businesses that survived the lockdown". merida.anahuac.mx (in español). Retrieved 2021-03-10.[permanent dead link]
  17. ↑ "Lockdown Economy Challenge: Sustainable and Innovative Entrepreneurship for Students | Education 4 SDG". blogs.upm.es. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  18. ↑ "Выпускница СГУ представила результаты собственного проекта на конференции в ООН". www.syktsu.ru (in русский). Archived from the original on 2021-07-24. Retrieved 2021-10-20. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ Lockdown Economy, 2021-05-30, retrieved 2021-10-20
  20. ↑ "AlterContacts Academy for Sustainable Development - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  21. ↑ "Exploring Covid-19 Pandemic Impact on Albanian Businesses". Epoka University. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  22. ↑ Behind every small business, there is a story. | Julia Skupchenko | TEDxHotelschoolTheHague, retrieved 2021-03-11
  23. ↑ "TEDxHotelschoolTheHague | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  24. ↑ "Gefeliciteerd!". www.europarl.europa.eu (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2021-06-11.

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