Rural rEvitalisation For cultuRal hEritage
REFREsh tackles the main challenges of rural areas in CE regions. Unused industrial heritages exist which need a revitalisation and a new form of use. One approach often Cities use is to involve creative scene in the reutilization of industrial heritages and areas. In rural areas this often fails through a missing critical amount of creative actors to sustainable reutilize the industrial sites alone. For that a multifunctional approach is necessary by combining the established stakeholders from trade, industry and services with the creative scene. Just by working together in close cooperation a mutual added value and sustainable reutilization of sites can be achieved. The main objectives of REFREsh are therefore to reutilize industrial heritages through new forms of creative use and attract new creative actors for valorise the industrial heritage in cooperation with actors from trade and service sector.
The partnership consists of Municipalities, regional and cultural actors from 5 countries in CE bundle there competences to provide benchmark tools for analysing territorial situation and combination options for creative, trade, and service actors, develop regional strategies for the integration of creative scene in the reutilization of industrial areas into cultural attractive places in cooperation with trade and service sectors. The projects transform industrial heritages into cultural centres for creative scene as starting point for development of the industrial areas, Municipalities and regions in Central Europe. To reach enough creative actors and foster transnational cooperation of creative scene transnational exhibitions, cultural events and creative workshops are implemented in the reutilization to attract creatives in taken part in reutilization and increase competence form politicians, planners, site managers how to integrate creative scene for the joint development of industrial areas as starting point for further reutilization in whole CE.