D3.5 Role Model Regeneration Enhancement Report

The RURITAGE Role Models represent thirteen tremendously diverse rural areas across Europe and beyond. By working on the 6 identified Systemic Innovation Areas (SIAs) – Pilgrimage, Local Food, Migration, Art&Festival, Resilience, Landscape – Role Models (RMs) have been selected as good practices in heritage-led rural regeneration and have been studied in WP1 to extract the so called ‘Role Model Actions’ (Del 1.1) and ‘Lessons Learned’ (Del 1.2). While the knowledge generated has been used by Replicators in the development of their own heritage-led regeneration strategies (Del 3.4) and is now in the phase of being summarized in the RURITAGE Decision Support System and Replication Toolbox in WP5, from M24 Role Models have been working on the codevelopment of their enhancement plans. The assumption behind this work is that sustainable growth isn’t a final state but a process, and represents a continuous tension towards the further regeneration of the local territories. As Replicators, RMs established their RHH at the beginning of the project identifying a physical place and working on reinforcing the local community of stakeholders active of heritage-led regeneration (Del 3.1). This work started with the implementation of the so-called practices repository that have been implemented within WP1 and have been by RMs to discuss and validate the practices that have been identified in their territories in Task 1.1. The establishment of Rural Heritage Hub in RMs facilitated the discussion with their stakeholders that, thanks to the multilevel and multidirectional knowledge exchange implemented in WP2, and using the RURITAGE workshop (Task 2.1) and tools(WP5), have been asked to work on the reinforcement of their heritage-led strategies, towards the enhancement of their own model actions and SIAs or through the development of new actions, touching upon other SIAs. From the beginning of the project, RMs have had the possibility of fostering the knowledge on their own territory and learning from the knowledge of the other RURITAGE partners. The Enhancement plans have been co-developed by RMs together with their stakeholders from M24 (May 2020) to M36 (May 2021). The co-development phase foresaw the implementation of various workshops within the RHHs following a simplified version of the process described in the Community-based Heritage Management and Planning (CHMP) (Del 2.1). During the co-development phase, RMs are benefitting from other RMs, Rs and KFPs knowledge through the learning and mentoring visits (WP2), the Digital Rural Heritage Hub (WP2), the RURITAGE webinars (WP2) and through the Systemic Innovation Board and other project meetings (WP8)