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Are we Ghost Busters?
Yes, we are!

We are sure you know the feeling when you see a beautiful building abandoned by citizens and inhabited by „ghosts”. You might have also seen iconic buildings with blind windows, hollow halls, yawning gates. Places where people worked, loved, lived before. Places where earlier happiness or success glowed out from windows. Places where you had your first date, you shared your first kiss.

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Project results

ANALYSIS OF TRANSFERABLE ELEMENTS (pdf 0.6 MB)

Guidelines for citizens involvement

STRATEGY OF MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH THE USE OF CCIs

THE FACTS

The Forget Heritage project was a three year long project, which started on 01.06.2016. The main objective of Forget Heritage was promoting cooperation between central European cities in order to identify innovative, replicable and sustainable Public Private Cooperation management models of the historical sites by valorising them through setting up Cultural and Creative Industries.
Most cities are characterized by the presence of unused historical buildings, such as former factories, hospitals, schools, barracks, that have marked the history of the local community.
Now, in a state of neglect, their historical memory is being forgotten and they have a negative impact on the surrounding areas by turning into "urban voids”.

Ljubljana - Domacija Vodnikova © Vodnik’s Homestead in Ljubljana, Slovenia — © Vodnik’s Homestead in Ljubljana, Slovenia

THE AIMS

The objective of Forget Heritage was to promote cooperation among participating cities in order to identify innovative replicablend sustainable private public cooperation management models of the abandoned historical sites - recognised as cultural heritage. The partnership aimed to provide recommendations for other cities on how to enhance the hidden potential of the cultural heritage to influence the quality of life of the citizens and cultural creative industry operators who could have new working opportunities and boost their managerial skills.

Further results are: a management manual, transnational training model and - in view of pilot actions an ex-ante assessment and ex-post evaluation happened. The project also developed tools to indicate buildings in underutilised areas ideal for cultural and creative use. Transnational cooperation allowed to find novel solutions. Collective results to influence national policies, develop human resources and strengthen local managerial systems were the added values of this collaboration.

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30. 11. 2019

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Forget Heritage project finished

Interreg Central Europe’s Forget Heritage project ended on 30th November 2019. 10 project partners from 7 countries were working together in 5 work packages. The cooperation aimed to create innovative replicablend sustainable private public cooperation management models of the abandoned historical sites - recognised as cultural heritage.

25. 09. 2019

Events

Forget Heritage Final Conference at European Cooperation Day

Forget Heritage Final Conference was part of European Cooperation Day. Cultural projects at vacant urban spaces have the potential to be key factors of heritage preservation and an essential part of spatial urban transformation processes towards the development of new life and diversity. However, cultural operators...

25. 09. 2019

News

PRESENTERS AT FINAL CONFERENCE

Nuremberg

The question of what is appropriate regarding places of mass murder or historic violence poses itself repeatedly; and over the past couple of years, it has become almost hypertrophic. Are “places” even relevant any more in an increasingly digitalized world?...

2018

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PILOT ACTIONS

pilot actions

1. Quadruple helix:
Auditorium of Strada Nuova
Genova

2. Creativity for historical identity preservation:
Writers hub for Vodnik's heritage preservation
Ljubljana

3. Social innovation and integration:
Intercultural Garden in Z-Bau North Garden
nürnberg

4. Young generation job access support:
Young craftsmen in Old city
Bydgoszcz

6. Integrated tourism services:
Integrated tourism offer in Hraničář area
Ústí nad Labem

5. Environmental sustainability:
Re-use center
Rijeka

7. CCIs marketing, promotion and networking:
Marketing and Promotion in Fabbrica del Vapore
Milano

8. New technologies and innovation:
Innovation in North Praga District
Warsaw

Pilot videos

Genova

Auditorium of Strada Nuova

The Auditorium di Strada Nuova is one of the historic public halls of Genoa. It is located inside Palazzo Rosso in Strada Nuova, now Via Garibaldi the so-called “Via dei musei” (the street of museums).Strada Nuova is the heart of the historical and cultural heritage of the city where the major buildings of the UNESCO heritage are located (Palazzi dei Rolli).The Auditorium di Strada Nuova had different toponyms...

Ljubljana

writers Hub for Vodnik's Heritage Preservation

The pilot site for the RRA LUR pilot action is Vodnik Homestead – House of reading, writing and storytelling (Vodnikova domačija – Hiša branja, pisanja in pripovedovanja). This is a cultural heritage building from the 17th century, a birth place of the Slovene poet Valentin Vodnik, author of the 1st Slovene grammar book, priest and publicist.The house has...

Nuremberg

Z-Bau North Garden

The project of the revitalization of the Z-Bau Nordgarten started right now with the implementation of an intercultural community garden.The team of the garden invested money and manpower in basic infrastructural changes, that consist electric lightning system, watering system, electricity system, technical equipment in tools and furniture for gardening. The...

Bydgoszcz

Young craftsmen in old city

The name of the pilot action in Bydgoszcz is The Creative Centre - Young craftsmen at the Old Town. We haven’t got the acronym yet. The Pilot Manager may decide to use another name/acronym which is more suitable for this place.The Creative Centre will be located in old tenant house from XVIII century (enlarged in 1863-1864) in the heart of the Old Town. Jezuicka Street is popular...

Usti Nad Labem

Integrated tourism offer in Hraničář Area

Statutory City of Ústí nad Labem identified a new location for the local Pilot Action to the City public space in front of the Hraničář multi-functional public hall building. The area in front of Hraničář is an historical street demarcated in 1888. It was named after a local important benefactor Anny Margarethe Dörfel as Margarethe Street crossing the main...

Rijeka

Re-use center

The Rijeka’s Forget Heritage pilot site is a cultural heritage building and also a residential - business building, located in the Rijeka City Centre, within the old city core. It was constructed in the period from 1914. to 1916., originally designed as a children's day care at the ground floor, the business premises in the basement and the collective residential building on the rest of the floors .While residential and business premises have kept mostly...

Milano

Marketing and promotion in Fabbrica del Vapore

The Region of Lombardy and the City of Milan have signed an agreement to implement a pilot action in Fabbrica del Vapore, a building owned by the City of Milan. It was part of a larger complex that used to be a production site for railways and tramways. This structure had a great expansion until the '30s, then it was abandoned. Its a new function to give opportunity to...

Warsaw

The innovation in North Praga District

Both buildings were built between 1910 and 1914 as integral part of four-building complex of furniture warehouses owned by Alfons Wróblewski i Spółka, localized side by side over elongated rectangular parcel ranged between Targowa and Inżynierska streets, divided by three yards and connected with gate passages....