The Spur is a project for the creation of a European cooperation network made up of seven cultural organisations that operate on a local and international scale as cultural operators, focusing above all on the field of the visual arts. It has two key objectives: A- To develop innovative projects for building the professional capacities and transnational mobility of creators, in particular visual artists, enabling the sector to move towards the economy of creativity and facilitating the exploration of new business and work models. B- To implement transnational co-management processes between different organisations in order to foster collaboration and knowledge transfer and, consequently, generate a European bank of exportable and reusable management resources that help to build the professional capacities of the sector.The Spur works towards these goals on the basis of five actions:1. Exploration: creation of artist spaces as seeds for building professional capacities and achieving social urban regeneration.2. Innovation: activation of a creative residencies programme geared towards research and the development of professional profiles through their insertion in the system and the real economy (industry, district, cluster) and aided by mentoring.3. Knowledge: holding of seminars in order to disseminate the experiences enabled by the project and to systematise the knowledge4. Communication: General communication actions with special emphasis on 2.0 modes, release of publication (final catalogue and a yearly dynamic digital Magazine).5. Organisation: Creation of a transnational work team which, on the basis of shared knowledge and best practices, which provides a solid grounding for stable cooperative initiatives beyond the project.