T-Factor’s mission is to turn historic urban areas across Europe into vibrant hubs for inclusive urban (re)generation, social innovation and enterprise, harnessing culture, creative collaboration and wide engagement to steer radically new, transformative approaches of ‘meanwhile’ (i.e. the period in-between the approval of the regeneration masterplan, and its actual realization and delivery). The project will pilot this ‘transformative time’ approach in a diversity of historic areas in Milan, London, Kaunas, Amsterdam, Bilbao, Lisbon. In these areas, huge financial investments have been already approved by various configurations of PPPs: T-Factor will complement these efforts by focusing on the activation of the software component (i.e. social, relational and cultural capital) which shall unleash transformative waiting times towards effective, sustainable and inclusive regenerations. Besides, these initiatives will be backed and supported by ‘advanced cases’ of meaningful meanwhile approaches, contributing to the creation of an international community of practice that will support knowledge co-creation, sharing of practices and collective capacity-building. By comparing and contrasting the development of the regenerations across pilot sites, we will produce evidence-based yet adaptable knowledge, strategies, methods and tools to support multi-stakeholder, collaborative and participatory city-making throughout the meanwhile. Besides, the set up of an international think tank and a community of practice focused on public value creation in the meanwhile will help go beyond the pilot sites, contributing to turn Europe into a seedbed of generative urban regenerations.T-Factor’s mission is to turn historic urban areas across Europe into vibrant hubs for inclusive urban (re)generation, social innovation and enterprise, harnessing culture, creative collaboration and wide engagement to steer radically new, transformative approaches of ‘meanwhile’ (i.e. the period in-between the approval of the regeneration masterplan, and its actual realization and delivery). The project will pilot this ‘transformative time’ approach in a diversity of historic areas in Milan, London, Kaunas, Amsterdam, Bilbao, Lisbon. In these areas, huge financial investments have been already approved by various configurations of PPPs: T-Factor will complement these efforts by focusing on the activation of the software component (i.e. social, relational and cultural capital) which shall unleash transformative waiting times towards effective, sustainable and inclusive regenerations. Besides, these initiatives will be backed and supported by ‘advanced cases’ of meaningful meanwhile approaches, contributing to the creation of an international community of practice that will support knowledge co-creation, sharing of practices and collective capacity-building. By comparing and contrasting the development of the regenerations across pilot sites, we will produce evidence-based yet adaptable knowledge, strategies, methods and tools to support multi-stakeholder, collaborative and participatory city-making throughout the meanwhile. Besides, the set up of an international think tank and a community of practice focused on public value creation in the meanwhile will help go beyond the pilot sites, contributing to turn Europe into a seedbed of generative urban regenerations.
T-Factor Consortium is committed in making all research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), in compliance with the Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020, and in the willingness to contribute to the Open Research Data in H2020 to which T-Factor adheres to. Upon publication of research results, all datasets generated by the project will be deposited for open access and long-term preservation in an Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) compliant data repository. The research data will be stored in open formats and together with metadata and documentation to facilitate its discoverability, accessibility, quality assessment and further re use.