European cities have empty/neglected spaces, that could be bring back to life by citizens´ initiatives . In some cases, this initiatives have been an innovative example of how public space could be managed and created. However, these citizen initiatives face diverse barriers that make difficult to develop and manage a project in the public space. The main problems are legal ones, security issues and lack of resources, which sometimes are due to citizens lack of technical knowledge and others due to the obsolete or nonexistent communication channels between citizens and the entities (private or public) that own the resources.For this reason, it often happens that the access to basic resources for the development of a citizens initiative are temporary solved by momentary, or even illegal, arrangements. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to understand how participation channels are currently managed in each country. Being able to identify why they do not work properly are key to propose and implement new ways of management.The project that seeks to integrate the knowledge and the experience of professionals from various European countries, that together with citizen initiatives and the rest of the partners will design a common and exportable model to create local action platforms.Urban Cooks Platform will support citizens initiatives, that manage and create urban space, by mediating between their needs and the public administration and resouce entities.Based on successful examples in the field of citizen participation, resources management and dialogue with institutions, the project participants would design an innovative methodology for bottom up initiatives.This methodology will be tested by each partner in their city through the real support of various citizen initiative projects of urban space management.The main goal would be defining the necessary conditions for their operation on a permanent basisin each city and moreover their replication.