According to the most recent Eurostat data on the topic (2018), millions of Europeans are still on the side-lines, both from the labour market and from social inclusion and integration. In particular, in the EU, only 11.1 % of adults participate in lifelong learning opportunities, thus resulting not up to the height of the current labour market demands or not able to up-skill and give themselves another professional chance. Starting from this assumption, OPEN CITY aims to make learning and capacity building opportunities available to fragile and disadvantaged groups in the project countries (Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Latvia), supporting the promotion and implementation of innovative and creative elements linked to creativity and self-expression into learning paths for unemployed people - to which formal academic opportunities are often precluded.In particular, OPEN CITY, wants to re-establish interactions and cooperation between adult unemployed (with previous work experience in social field, or looking for job opportunities in social field), local artists and social innovators, putting values and commons back to the center of human interactions between neighbours. It will do so by enhancing values, skills and social cohesion potential of specific street in disadvantaged districts of selected European cities leveraging upon art expressions and collaborative practices between citizens. In parallel, citizens will also be empowered in terms of artistic attitude, social activism and communication skills and competences, thus improving their employability. In this way, OPEN CITY will build a collective trust between inhabitants; empower them to acquire social and civic competences; and support the creation of sustainable welfare systems on micro-scales - i.e. a block of flats, a street, a specific area of a selected neighbourhood.The main participants in the project will be 100 adult unemployed over 30 years old (20 per each target city), who will be involved in a capacity-building programme aimed to increase their knowledge and skills for an enhanced participation in society and employability, via artistic and social-related activities, that respond to the needs and necessities of their territory. They will be supported by a heterogeneous network of: local artists, social innovators/entrepreneurs, project partners, local authorities.The project will produce the following activities and results: - 5 new city maps, based on local districts needs’ assessments, obtained through a data collection process mixing field visits, interviews and the organisation of 10 participatory workshops - A Capacity Building program involving at least 100 adult unemployed aged over 30 years old (20 per country) as trainees, and also including two International Academies- Specific pilot activities in all target cities. These will be socially engaged and creative art interventions which take the shape of site-specific services , which will blend together unoccupied but possibly aggregative spaces, with activities and professions that have the potential to bring people together and engage them socially. - A Project Toolkit summing up the most important OPEN CITY outputs and activities.- OPEN CITY Digital Platform, joining together different materials and functions and ready to be used by other adult education providers for replicating the project’s methodology and actions. OPEN CITY designs a school where ‘students’ work together with communities, using physical spaces that are considered inaccessible for public re-creative purposes. OPEN CITY believes in re-creative use and transformation of citizens’ skills and physical spaces. This is for us a bridge between creativity and society, by strengthening the interaction between the cultural heritage sector and other sectors.The main impact OPEN CITY wants to achieve is to give second chances to unemployed people, accompanying them to gain and express those skills which are necessary to fulfill the needs of the territory they reside in. The project asserts that exchange of knowledge and experience are mutual via creative interventions and socially innovative service - and will demonstrate that people from difficult backgrounds are well capable of bringing an added value to the society, if well guided. Its overall outcome, thus, is intended as a concrete result with multiple positive side-effects for the territory to be acquainted in the short, medium and long term (see next section for indicators).In the longer term, OPEN CITY foresees the creation and spread of a dedicated label among those realities that are touched by the project and its inspiring activities. As such, the label will put in touch communities which are geographically far from each other, but connected by the strong linkage of common experiences and shared values - above all, the necessity of integrative policies for marginalised people and power of alternative inclusive measures to this extent.