Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities
ROCK is an EU project looking at Cultural Heritage (CH) as a driver for sustainable growth by using state of the art tools, policies and practices. It will demonstrate how the historic centres of European cities can be considered extraordinary "living laboratories" in which to experiment new models of urban regeneration led by cultural heritage (tangible and intangible), as well as innovative and unconventional financing mechanisms which involve multi-cultural and multi-actor integrated viewpoints.
ROCK aims to develop an innovative, collaborative and systemic approach to promote the effective regeneration and adaptive reuse in historic city centres by implementing a repertoire of successful heritage-led regeneration initiatives related to 7 Role Model selected cities: Athens, Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Liverpool, Lyon, Turin and Vilnius.The project will deliver new ways to access and experience Cultural Heritage (CH) ensuring environmental sound solutions, city branding, bottom-up participation using living labs, while increasing liveability and safety in the involved areas.
The replicability and effectiveness of the approach and of the related models in addressing the specific needs of historic city centres and in integrating site management plans with associated financing mechanisms will be tested in 3 Replicator cities: Bologna, Lisbon and Skopje.
SEI is leading the development of a Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning tool based on its own PMEC tool. This will be maintained during two additional years after the project lifetime in order to capture outcomes arising from activities that may have only commenced towards the end of the project.
Funder: EU
Project website: https://rockproject.eu/
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ROCK is a 10.6 million euros EU Innovation Action programme comprising of 32 organisations:
10 cities (Bologna as project leader, Lisbon, Skopje, Lyon, Turin, Liverpool, Athens, Vilnius, Cluj-Napoca and Eindhoven),
2 city networks (Eurocities and ICLEI),
7 Universities, business associations and technological firms.