On September 4th -6th, 2017 the interdisciplinary junior research group platforms2share met in Mannheim to kick off their project. In a constituting meeting, Michael Jäger (IBP), Clara Wolff, Jonas Pentzien, Santje Kludas (IÖW), Tino Schöllhorn and Dr. Dominika Wruk (ifm) set out their research agenda for the coming years. The highly motivated researchers each presented their individual PhD projects. Building on fruitful discussions they are now off to further develop their decipline’s view on the issue concerning the decentralisation of the platform economy and platform cooperatives in the digital sharing economy.