Project summary
WaVE stands for Water-linked heritage Valorization by developing an Ecosystemic approach.
WaVE can count on 7 partners who have in common a rich history of cultural heritage that has been formed through an interaction with water.
WaVE focuses on the improvement of regional and local policies to open up their possibilities for supporting the development of integrated adaptive reuses of water-linked cultural heritage sites in human settlements.
WaVE goal is to improve the overall support by the addressed policy instruments for integrated valorisation approaches of cultural heritage, to sparkle ideas for the creation of new projects aiming at integrated valorisation of water-linked cultural heritage, and to raise awareness for the subject at other cities and regions in Europe.
"We thus not only want to preserve and further develop heritage and nature, but also expect side effects such as socio-economic growth and climate adaptation."
What did this project achieve?
Through a joint work of interregional knowledge sharing, learning, transmitting Good Practices and Engaging with local Stakeholders, we will define Action Plans to tackle the subject-matter.
3 fundamental stages will lead us to our goal: ANALYSIS, KNOWLEDGE SHARING and PLANNING .
Stage 1 focuses on assessing each region's current status of water-linked cultural heritage valorisation based on a joint “Methodology for Regional Status-Quo and Good Practice identification”, driven up by the Delft University of Technology (NL).
Read the Regional Status-Quo Methodology
Stage 2 represents the "heart" of the project's interregional learning process. All partners will be involved in a process of knowledge sharing, joint learning and exchange of good practices. Three day long Interregional Knowledge Exchange Sessions (IKES) will be organised in presence of stakeholders. The IKES meeting will consist of in-depth discussions using workshop method and visits to identified good practices-sites.
Read the IKES Methodology by Delft University of Technology (NL)
Stage 3 revolves around drafting Action Plans to tackle the subject-matter, in order to create structural changes within local and regional policies and work on new projects for the development of sites.
A few numbers
1,691,756 €
01 Aug 2019-31 Jul 2023
7 partners