From STEM to STEAM, architecture is a trigger, therefore design education is a crucial way of thinking, and not only for architects. UpGranT identifies GT as a legacy, a flexible learning pathway exposing students to diversity and otherness. Re- empowering this long-standing practice as a transnational, multi-mediated learning and sharing practice aimed at experimenting an in-situ pedagogical model, i.e. learning by travelling, from real buildings, experiencing affinities among EU townscapes.