Did you miss checking out the virtual Innovation Booths during the hybrid ILUCIDARE Playground on December 2-3?
No worries! You can discover all the 13 projects in the digital catalogue below!
The Innovation Booths are flagship projects, mostly EU-funded, featuring heritage-led innovation in their specific fields: urban and territorial regeneration (EU Task Force for Climate Neutral and Resilient Historic Urban Districts; HUB-IN, MOMAr); adaptive reuse of heritage buildings for sustainable tourism and community activation (OpenHeritage, ReInHerit); circular economy (CENTRINNO); growth and job creation (FINCH); collaboration with cultural and creative industries (HERITALES, Mi.Momo.Faro) and digital ecosystem (inDICEs); education (SchoolKerk) and social inclusion (Weave).
From environmental sustainability to social inclusion, digital learning and community engagement, ILUCIDARE is committed to showcase heritage-led innovation where least expected!
We hope that you will find these examples inspiring for your future projects and activities!
EU Task Force for Climate Neutral and Resilient Historic Urban Districts
This Task Force has been established by the Horizon 2020 projects ARCH, HYPERION, and SHELTER in response to and support of the Horizon 2020 ‘Heritage Alive’ orientation to “increase resilience and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas to cope with climate change and hazard events”.
It is intended to bridge the gap between urban development, resilience planning and heritage management to boost collaboration among all involved stakeholders and make our cities more climate neutral and resilient.
In the long-term, the Task Force will not only co-ordinate EU efforts to make historic urban districts and their communities climate neutral and resilient, but also branch out to issues of contemporary urban districts in order to find synergies. In this way, the findings of the Task Force may also be useful to support the Renovation Wave (The European Commission, 2020) launched by the European Commission in the context of the European Green Deal in contemporary districts (suburbs, social housing neighbourhoods, etc.).
Funding program: EU
Links:
https://shelter-project.com/
https://savingculturalheritage.eu/
https://www.hyperion-project.eu/
CENTRINNO
CENTRINNO is a research project focused on industrial historical sites under transformation. By adapting the principles of circular economy to industrial historic sites, the project will showcase the potential of these cultural landscapes to become new and inclusive hubs of entrepreneurship for city residents while fostering sustainability. CENTRINNO works in pilots covering a wide geographic extension and cultural realities across 9 cities.
Funding program: Horizon 2020
Links:
https://centrinno.eu/
Cultural Heritage in Action!
Cultural Heritage in Action is a Europe-spanning three-year peer-learning scheme that supports exchanges between cities and regions on cultural heritage policies and best practices, empowering local authorities across the Union to share and develop innovative solutions for the preservation of cultural heritage assets.
Funding program: Creative Europe
Links:
https://culturalheritageinaction.eu/
FINCH
FINCH Project brings together 6 regions across Europe who share the same commitment to the protection of Cultural Heritage, based on its potential impact on growth and jobs, which could lead to long-term social and economic benefits.
In this context, main objective of FINCH project is to improve policies of participating regions and facilitating the involvement of private actors in the conservation, restoration, valorisation and management of cultural heritage, through partnership between public and private sectors and with financial instruments support.
Funding program: Interreg Europe
Links:
https://www.interregeurope.eu/finch/
HERITALES - International heritage Film Festival
The project HERITALES – International Heritage Film Festival was born in 2016 in the city Évora (Portugal) with the aim of promoting the dissemination of heritage through various media, the seventh art being its main focus. It serves as a platform for the exchange of cultural experiences between academia, locals, and international guests. The project presents anthropological knowledge of different cultures through cinema and documentaries, focusing on the dissemination of material and immaterial heritage, revealing the elements that make communities sustainable.
Links:
https://www.heritales.org/wp/
https://www.heritageresearch-hub.eu/project/heritales/
HUB-IN
HUB-IN promotes innovation and entrepreneurship in Historic Urban Areas in eight European cities, leveraging activities of co-creation and co-design to build a network for the promotion of new tools for urban regeneration and the creation of sustainable opportunities for local businesses.
HUB-IN Places are both local and global. The project is grounded by our sense of place, community and cultural heritage, enhanced by being part of a network of hubs all with the same mission: “to promote the urban transformation and heritage-led regeneration of Historic Urban Areas through innovation and entrepreneurship, while preserving their unique cultural, social and environmental identities and values”.
Funding program: Horizon 2020
Links:
Info here
inDICEs
inDICEs helps policymakers and leaders in the CCI follow the impact of digitisation on the Cultural Heritage Sector in Europe, tracking policies in an open observatory and building a solid framework for the innovative re(use) of cultural assets in a changing cultural and creative ecosystem.
Funding program: Horizon 2020
Links:
https://indices-culture.eu/
Mi.Momo.Faro
Mi.Momo.Faro is an educational project that uses digital learning scenarios to teach students about Modernist architectural heritage in the city of Faro, pioneering the use of game-based learning dynamics in heritage education and empowering schools to develop new pedagogical approaches.
Links:
https://mimomofaro.pt/
MOMAr
MOMAr is an Interreg Europe project to address heritage in rural territories across Europe, providing strategic thinking to the use and management of cultural and natural resources and encouraging the exchange of models, policies, and best practices between regional administrations and communities. The inhabitants -who maintain the territories alive- will be a central part of the strategies and new projects designed.
The project highlights the existence of territories with problems - depopulation, ageing, no use of resources- whose identity is however marked by a rich heritage, exceptional in some cases - UNESCO heritage - and whose management entities have either not finished defining their models of action in terms of cultural and natural resources or directly borrowed models that do not correspond to the territorial reality.
Funding program: Interreg Europe
Links:
https://www.interregeurope.eu/momar/
OpenHeritage
OpenHeritage identifies and tests the best practices of adaptive heritage re-use in Europe. Drawing on its 16 observatory cases, the project develops inclusive governance and management models for marginalized, non-touristic heritage sites and tests them in six Cooperative Heritage Labs across Europe. It works with communities, local businesses, local and municipal administration, tries out new forms of engagement and uses crowdfunding and crowd sourcing mechanisms to create active heritage communities.
Funding program: Horizon 2020
Links:
https://openheritage.eu/
ReInHerit
ReInHerit aspires to disrupt the current status quo of communication, collaboration and innovation exchange between museums and cultural heritage sites by interlinking cultural heritage collections and sites but also by presenting Europe’s tangible and intangible heritage to citizens and tourists in their wider historical and geographical contexts. ReInHerit funding was secured in the framework of the Horizon 2020 CSA Programme, on the theme Culture beyond borders – Facilitating innovation and research cooperation between European museums and heritage. The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation is the coordinator of the program.
Funding program: Horizon 2020
Links:
https://www.reinherit.eu/
SchoolKerk
SchoolKerk offers interactive teaching programmes for primary and secondary schools at the medieval Dutch church of Garmerwolde, engaging pupils to reflect on intercultural exchange in a heritage environment and raising awareness of our common history and future.
This project is initiated by the Groningen Historic Churches Foundation, owner of 100 churches in the north of the Netherlands. The church of Garmerwolde has been repurposed as a learning space, although it is still also used by the local community for cultural activities. The project won a European Heritage Award/Europa Nostra Award in 2021.
Links:
https://www.schoolkerk.nl/
Weave
Weave is two-year project to safeguard and promote the richness of European cultural plurality and heritage, carrying out capacity-building in collaboration with European cultural heritage institutions, minority cultural communities, and Europeana. In addition, it will aggregate over 5000 new high-quality records to Europeana and develop a new toolkit for the proper handling of immaterial cultural heritage for the benefit of vulnerable and marginalised communities.
Links:
https://www.photoconsortium.net/weave/
https://weave-culture.eu/
Do not hesitate to get in touch for further information:
Elisabetta Airaghi, ILUCIDARE project
eairaghi@keanet.eu
+32 2 289 26 09
