How to bridge the gap between academic insights and practitioners'needs ? This short article retraces the seminars organised by the ACUTE project, where a number of research questions emerged on the subject of the 15-min City. The seminars provided an opportunity to learn from practitioners such as Oriana Kraemer from Karlsruhe City Council, who gave us her perspective on the obstacles and good practices that can be used to facilitate collaboration between research and practice in urban planning projects.