"The skills that build on the knowledge and professional body of humanities, cultural and social sciences (the ""humanities"") are required. Science, industry and society need university graduates with aptitude for critical thinking, questioning, holistic approaches, contextual situations, constructive dealing with (inter-)cultural settings, creative and interdisciplinary actions. Only in this manner can current challenges be explored, understood, tackled in a future-oriented and sustainable way. The Humanities are considered to be the most important promoter and guarantor of these socially and economically very relevant skills. Highly specialized professionals need such basic skills for a successful entry into working environments. This illustrates the urgent demand of the economy and its search for talent. What is needed is a strengthening and imparting of these skills, moreover, as a result of the increasing entanglement of the economy and science, of society as a whole, and, as a consequence, of educational policy transformation. These demands are joined by a need for action formulated by political actors. Because people with skills in constructive-critical thinking, reflection, creative and interdisciplinary collaborations are important in sustaining and developing the framework, values and heritage of enlightened, open European societies and socially inclusive cultures. This is followed by the strategic partnership ""Advancing the Value of Humanities - in Academia, Society and Industry"". From the perspective of cultural sciences and selected teaching formats with an interdisciplinary interface to architecture at three universities, this partnership examines the teaching, tangibility and qualities of the skills outlined and strengthens their relevance for education, society and the economy. The strategic partnership between the University of Liechtenstein, the University of Graz and the HafenCity University of Hamburg takes up ongoing, singular aspirations and profiles of those involved. It brings them together in a complementary way through peer-learning research, cooperation and exchange and enables synergies for innovative and sustainable output in the transnational network of the European area. These teaching formats, which have been conceived, organized and documented by the partner universities on the topics of ""space"" and ""culture"", are designed as an empirical research training facility. They relate to theoretical and methodological foundations of ethnography and cultural analysis. The setting contributes in an individual and complementary way to a concrete spatial-cultural debate, because all formats are located outside the universities, at the ""port"" of the city of Hamburg, in the ""quarter"" of the medium-sized city of Graz and in the ""border area"" of rural Liechtenstein. These teaching formats are analyzed and explored by all partners as case studies in three repetitive research sections. The results are processed successively and systematically. On the one hand they are used continuously in further research and teaching-learning activities and on the other hand on a teaching-learning platform. Thus, an active, reflective and documented teaching-learning process is maintained at eye level. Together, the partners in the project network expand their own academic foundations and work on the sustainable strengthening of the ""humanities"" in the European area. The final synthesis of all parts of the research, together with the work materials, process reflections and results of the case study, is uploaded to the teaching-learning platform and linked to the respective websites of the partners. This curated public, low-threshold access to the platform thus enables discussion, use and further development on the basis of the tangible results. The dissemination via newsletter and especially the discussion at the results conference with various stakeholders, also from outside the university, provide important impulses for the ongoing and future debate in Europe on the value of the ""humanities"" in academia, society and industry."