The role of sustainable urban planning is key for the development of green, socially inclusive, and financially sustainable cities and regions. In this sense, there is a clear need to provide education and training in urban and territorial planning that is focused on the generation of sustainable and smart solutions to the specific challenges of a region. Despite its importance, few Higher Education Institutions offer urban and territorial planning as a standalone degree in Latin America. New Sustainability Paradigms for Inclusive and Smart Latin-American Cities (POLIS) has the objective of helping to create solutions for overcoming the environmental and social difficulties in Latin America and to promote the employability of university students, through the development of a specialised study programme based on the social and environmental needs of the region. The main outcome of POLIS will be the design and implementation of a Specialisation Course on Urban and Territory Planning in six universities of Peru, Chile and Ecuador: a postgraduate interdisciplinary course that will focus on the competences and knowledge needed for participatory urban planning to develop sustainable, smart and inclusive cities. POLIS will contribute to an increase of experts in sustainable planning and smart cities in Peru, Chile and Ecuador, who will have the necessary transversal and specific competences as well as direct links to local communities for participatory processes to design the green smart cities of the future.