Cities across Europe are facing the challenge of regenerating abandoned or decaying public or private urban spaces. Public administrations, businesses and non-profit organizations are all engaged with the transformation of these spaces and a professional profile stands out: the Urban Innovator (UI), able to use social innovation tools to develop urban regeneration processes. Urban innovators are in high demand in the job market, however they still lack a clear recognition in terms of professional role and training at EU level.EUREKA is a Knowledge Alliance that addresses this need by promoting and formalizing the UI profile for the public and private sector through the creation on a multidisciplinary curriculum, designed by universities, enterprises, PA cooperating jointly.The main steps are:• Research on the needs of enterprises, PA and community-based groups, reaching a shared definition of the skills of the profile at the EU level;• The co-design of a training curriculum involving HEIs, enterprises, public and private organizations and former students;• A pilot action to deliver the training programme in the 4 local clusters of the Alliance (IT, ES, NL, RO) with the support of the transnational partner Trans Europe Halles (SE).• International learning motilities for students and enterprises• Four living-labs as spaces to study and work facing real life issues.The main expected results are:1. A new joint multidisciplinary curriculum with a mentoring scheme to manage the transformation of urban spaces, leading to the definition of UI profile2. A mutually supportive network and learning community of academics, practitioners and students in urban regeneration fieldsThe Alliance's impact:• HEIs capacity to update current urban planning training courses • Enterprises, PA and community-based groups to improve their answer to the needs for sustainable and participatory regeneration of urban spaces • Students’ employability and entrepreneurial skills

T-Factor challenges the waiting time in urban regeneration - i.e. the time in-between the adoption of the masterplan and its actual realization - to demonstrate how culture, creative collaboration and wide engagement can unleash vibrant urban hubs of inclusive urban (re)generation, social innovation and enterprise. The project targets early stage regenerations in a diversity of historic urban areas in London, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Kaunas, Milan and Lisbon, and provides their PPPs with a unique ecosystem of capacity-building for radically new city-making approaches. Leveraging local coalitions of actors, we will use the masterplans of the targeted regenerations as the starting point to steer collective inquiry into their meanings and narratives, co-create visions of future spaces, and put them on stage via meanwhile uses and experiences. Throughout the process, culture and creativity will support voice and engagement, and help enrich and steer the masterplans towards heritage and culture-relevant innovation and enterprise, and social and cultural integration. Via trans-disciplinary action research, we will keep track of change, and build on the insights to add iteratively new layers of collective reflection and action. This learning by making will continuously inform masterplans and PPPs, consolidating, adjusting and providing new directions of urban development rooted in shared goals of sustainable city-making. T-Factor will work as an international community of practice, delivering an innovative city-mentoring model which will create multiple collaborations between the pilot cities, advance cultural and creative hubs, universities, enterprises and social organizations partnering the project, so as to shape an international movement of capacity-building and knowledge co-creation for the transformative time in urban regeneration leveraging heritage, culture and creativity.