Deliverables

Knowledge building
Evidence building & demonstration

D1.1. RURITAGE Practices Repository

This report is the analysis of the data gathered from the Role Models (RMs) regarding their successful heritage-led rural regeneration models. This analysis has been done from a holistic and multidisciplinary perspective, studying their objectives, motivation, needs and barriers using the Community Capitals Framework.

First the RM have been studied in their context and characterised for their inclusion in the “Best practices Repository”, second the six Systemic innovation Areas (SIAs) has been conceptualised and finally the best practices from each RM have been analysed. These analyses have allowed the identification of common features, mechanism for mobilisation of capitals and required resources that will facilitate the replication in other rural areas. This analysis will allow refining and validating the characterisation of the SIAs.

D1.2. RURITAGE Inventory of Lessons Learned

This report is a continuation of the analysis realised in the D1.1 RURITAGE Practices Repository of the data gathered from Role Models (RMs) regarding their successful heritage-led rural regeneration models. In this second stage the best practices from each RM have been analysed from a transversal perspective using 11 cross-cutting issues. These analyses have allowed the identification of 70 common lesson learnt. This abstraction and conceptualisation of the best practices have been included in the lesson learnt repository as replicable specific strategies for replicators.

D1.4. Replicators Baseline Assessment Report

The baseline of the Replicators (Rs) establishes the starting point for monitoring and allows the diagnosis of their current situation. It is the first measurement of all the key performance indicators (KPIs) taken into account in the RURITAGE project, both letting to know these indicators value before the execution of the actions to be performed and also easing the comparison between the same indicators after the execution of the actions. A state of the art of Replicators at different dimensions and a deep analysis and validation of Rs’ needs have been done.

D2.1. RURITAGE methodology for Communitybased Heritage Management and Planning (CHMP)

WP2 aims to foster social innovation potential and ensure knowledge transfer and mutual learning between RMs and Rs and other project partners. One of the tasks of this WP (T2.1) relates to the preparation of the basis for participatory, multi-stakeholder and trans-disciplinary process through the development of the RURITAGE Methodology for Community based Heritage Management and Planning – CHMP (D2.1) to be implemented in the course of WP3 ‘Co-development and co-implementing heritage-led rural regeneration plans in Replicators’. This methodology aims to provide guidance for the undertaking of dedicated activities organized within the Rural Heritage Hubs in Role Models and Replicators to develop and enhance heritage-led regeneration strategy.

D2.3.Report on Bilateral knowledge transfer and brokerage from Role Models to Replicators

The Deliverable 2.3 overviews the overall concept of visits, presents established procedures and includes reports of each visit. 

D2.5. Report on Digital Knowledge sharing and mutual learning on the Digital RHH

The current deliverable represents an overview of the DRHH structure (Section 3), webinars’ setting (Section 4) with a full list of webinars (Annex 1) and an overview of continuous exchange with Additional replicators (Section 5). 

 

D3.1 Guidelines for stakeholders’ identification and engagement within the RHHs

This Deliverable is providing an ad-hoc stakeholder identification and engagement strategy that will support the Replicators and Role Models in identifying the stakeholders to be involved in the Rural Heritage Hubs set within the RURITAGE project. WP3 aims at the co-development and co-implementation of heritage-led regeneration strategies in the RURITAGE Replicators and it supports an enhanced sense of ownership and responsibility among the inhabitants of the rural areas through local engagement in the participated and inclusive Rural Heritage Hubs (RHHs) within both Role Models (RMs) and Replicators (Rs).

D3.3. Canvas Business Models

This report describes Model Business Canvases presenting the tailored solutions for all Replicators. The framework was designed to suit the needs of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CNH). This report includes the CNH Canvas/solution for each R, along with the description of the methodology and process and guide used to develop them.

D3.4. RURITAGE Heritage-led regeneration plans for Replicators

This deliverable summarizes the results of the co-development of innovative heritage-led regeneration plans in Replicators and builds on findings and activities coming from WP1-4 and WP7. RURITAGE’s 6 Replicators represent six very diverse rural areas in Europe and beyond (Austria, Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Italy and Turkey) and are acting as the main laboratories to test the RURITAGE approach. By working on the 6 identified Systemic Innovation Areas (SIAs) – Pilgrimage, Local Food, Migration, Art&Festival, Resilience, Landscape-, the Replicators are demonstrating local Cultural and Natural Heritage (CNH) as a driver for regeneration and sustainable growth. The heritage-led regeneration plans presented in this deliverable will be implemented in Task 3.5.

D3.5. RURITAGE Role Model Regeneration Enhancement Report

This report summarizes the results of the co-development phase in Role Models (Task 3.4). During this phase, RURITAGE RMs have developed their Enhancement plans and specific actions together with their local community. These actions will be co-implementated from May 2021. Specific objectives of this report are: (1) Present the establishment of the RMs Rural Heritage Hub, in terms of their physical space and the community involved in the RURITAGEproject; (2) Summarize the co-development phase that took place in each RHH, to report on the participation of local stakeholders and community in the development of the RMs Enhancement plans; (3) Present the RMs enhancement plans, providing details about objectives, challenges, and actions of each RURITAGE RM.

D3.6. Report on the involvement of communities in cultural heritage

This report summarizes engagement shown by the community in both Task 3.3 “Co-development of innovative heritage-led regeneration Plans”, and Task 3.5 “Large scale demonstration Projects in Replicators” and it builds on findings and data coming from WP1, WP2, WP3 & WP4. From WP1 “Conceptual and operational framework for heritage-led rural regeneration”, the deliverable builds on task 1.4 “Replicator’s diagnosis and baseline calculation procedure” where the characteristics of each Rare studied. From WP2 “Collective community management approach and capacity building activities” this deliverable measures communities engagement as described in Del 2.1 CHMP. Moreover, this deliverable studies the activities developed during WP3 “CO-developing and coimplementing heritage-led rural  regeneration plans in Replicators“ and carried out in WP4  “Monitoring System and Assessment Procedures” as well  as social media interactions. These activities were  developed within each R and personalized to each R’s  needs and situation. Then, they were monitored within  WP4’s KPIs system and My CultRural toolkit.

D3.7. Updates from the Replicators

This report builds upon Del. 3.4 ‘Action plans for Rs’ and includes deviations and adjustments made by Replicators during the implementation of their heritage-led regeneration plans. While this report was not foreseen at the beginning of the project, at the end of the second reporting period in May 2022, we felt the need of a revised version of ‘Del 3.4 RURITAGE Heritage-led regeneration plans for Replicators’. Del. 3.4 contains the Action plans that Replicators (Rs) developed from June 2019 until January 2020. The COVID 19 pandemic raised in Europe, with all the restrictions and related lockdown, when the Rs were about to start the implementation of their heritage-led regeneration strategies. While all Rs managed to greatly adapt and react to the challenges raised by the pandemic, all of them had to partly change their actions, in terms of timeline and, sometimes, in term of content and activities.

D4.2. Monitoring Programme and Procedures

The goal of the Monitoring Programme is to provide evidence of the role of cultural and natural heritage in rural areas as a driver for sustainable growth. This document shows the elaboration of RURITAGE monitoring programme implemented within the Replicators during project development. Several data collection options are described, including regular, non-regular and co-monitoring. In order to combine the pre-selected and multiscale KPI, weights have been assigned to indicators, according to the knowledge provided by the experts of the consortium.

D4.4. Rural Regeneration Activities

The main objective of Work Package 4 was to provide quantifiable evidences of the potential role of CNH as a driver for sustainable growth. To do this, WP4 has been monitoring over the last 2.5 years the performance of the deployed Action Plans (or regeneration schemes) in the 6 initial Replicators (Rs), and the 9 Additional Replicators (ARs) included in the last phase of the project. Performance’s monitoring has been done through selected cross-thematic and multiscale Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and through the implementation of a holistic approach based on Systems Dynamics (SD) for properly assessing the heritage-led regeneration. Six SD models, one per SIA, have been developed and are freely accessible through the Monitoring Platform in the RURITAGE Resources Ecosystem (RRE), as explained in the deliverable D4.3. These SD models are useful for laying out different what-if scenarios. Last, WP4 has been contributing to create sense of ownership of CNH developing a participatory co-monitoring approach.

D5.3. RURITAGE Resource Ecosystem

This deliverable describes the whole Ruritage Resource Ecosystem (RRE), which is a distributed software platform establishing data ecosystem and open standards for information management aiming at providing different services and applications to address the needs of the different identified end-users. All data are made Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR). The RRE has been designed to be deployed even into cloud systems compliant with the Infrastructure-as-a-Model paradigm. The platform is available online at the URL https://www.ruritage-ecosystem.eu/ 

D5.4. RURITAGE Replication ToolBox

This deliverable describes the RURITAGE Replication Toolbox that is integrated into the Ruritage Resources Ecosystem (RRE). The tool aims to offer a step-by-step guide to developing a heritage-led rural regeneration process for any interested rural area framing the results from the RURITAGE project as replication resources. The tool is based on the WHAT-WHO-HOW framework, and functions as a wizard that suggests tools, examples, and documentsthat facilitate the implementation of each regeneration step (HOW) corresponding to specific Systemic Innovation Areas-SIAs (WHAT) and initiating actors (WHO). It allows non-expert users to explore the different activities and the recommended stakeholder engagement processes in a user-friendly interface. The interactive tool conceptualises the knowledge generated in RURITAGE in a step-by-step sequence that enables the upscaling of the RURITAGE framework for heritage-led rural regeneration with very diversified rural contexts.

D6.1. Exploitation Strategy

The purpose of this strategy is to enable the ongoing exploitation and use of the outputs of the RURITAGE project by actors and stakeholders in rural development, making optimum use of cultural and natural heritage to regenerate rural areas. To this end it identifies the exploitable tools and results of the project, the target markets and the means to market. This strategy serves as a blueprint for the effective promotion and uptake of the tools, including the adoption of a collaborative approach to build upon the integrated nature of the suite of tools and the results achieved. 

D6.5. Summer schools and master programme reports

This deliverable summarises the results and outcomes from the Task 6.4 “Building new skills for innovative management of CNH”. Within this task, two summer schools took place and a yearly Professional Master Programme was established.

 

D7.4. Progress report on networking with EU initiatives

This report is prepared in relation to Subtask 7.3.1 “Link with similar initiatives at European level”. The main objective of this task is the creation of links with relevant European initiatives and projects in order to give a wider outreach to RURITAGE activities, results and events and, at the same time, to exchange knowledge and learn from other projects. 

D7.7. Final Conference

The RURITAGE project demonstrates how Cultural and Natural Heritage can emerge as a driver of sustainable development and competitiveness of rural areas and aims at creating an innovative heritage-led rural regeneration paradigm. The current document presents the outcomes of the project’s Final Conference held in Paris at UNESCO’s headquarters on the 9th and 10th of June 2022.