In the spring semester of 2021, students from three Master's degrees at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) "Innovation, Human Development and Sustainability", "Territorial Development" and "African Studies", took part in the English-language workshop Urban Futures, dedicated to innovative urban planning.

Peer-to-peer learning, capitalising on and co-constructing knowledge necessarily involves meetings between project leaders and visits to urban incubator sites.

Since 2018, AFD-funded urban nurseries have been experimenting with new ways of designing public spaces, as close as possible to future users. Four projects are currently underway in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Dakar (Senegal), Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) and several cities in Tunisia, where galloping urbanization requires local interventions that are collectively designed and supported by larger-scale structuring urban development programs.

On October 6, 2020, the incubator network organized a launch event, in collaboration with the French Development Agency (AFD).