The EUROPEAN URBAN MEDIA NETWORK FOR CONNECTING CITIES (EUM-NET) reflects on the increasing presence of large-format digital screens in public spaces and aims to open this infrastructure of commercially used urban screens to broadcast cultural content. Through the use of new technologies, urban media facades can be connected Europewide. This is an outstanding challenge for artists to circulate and present their work at cental places beyond the borders.The main objective of EUM-NET is to set up a networked infrastructure of urban media facades to examine their communicative function and impact on the development on our urban digital society. We will create three future scenarios of CONNECTING CITIES: The NETWORKED CITY in 2013 will zoom into local scenes and involve the public audience into creative processes to experience the direct potential of intercultural exchange. The PARTICIPATORY CITY in 2014 will focus on the idea of the inhabitant as active citizen instead of well-behaved consumer and envision the urban media facades as digital stages and European Agora for communication. The VISIBLE CITY in 2015 recognises Urban Media Facades as real-time information boards that visualise our urban environment consisting of sensor networks that are mapping our daily life. The CONNECTING CITIES EVENTS are city-to-city real time joint broadcast events and provide a new opportunity for the European citizens to lead an intercultural dialogue and exchange across the borders. The urban media facades are a new emerging communication platform for all cultural disciplines as they offer a local and global window of visibility and interaction.The Urban Media Network unites 11 coorganisers – all specialists in linking new media art to urban issues. They will establish a sustainable European infrastructure of Urban Media Facades through an intense programme of workshops, conferences and an artists’ programme including a Mobile Urban Media Lab and Artists ‘ Research Residencies.