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
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 profile 2. A mutually supportive network and learning community of academics, practitioners and students in urban regeneration fields The 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