INNOvating policy instruments for historic CASTLEs, manors and estates

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2025-08-09

Description

Description (EN):

The central issue addressed in INNOCASTLE is that in most European countries, current policies towards preservation, transformation and exploitation (PTE) of historic castles, manors and estates (HCME) are outdated and not reflecting the real needs and opportunities of HCME. The project evolves around the idea of valorising one of Europe’s least known and particular forms of heritage. Mostly located in rural and remote areas, HCME are often unknown to the general public and tourists. They have the potential to become powerful drivers for rural development and innovation. However, this requires a shift of paradigm in governance and support. INNOCASTLE aims to revitalise these hidden treasures by adapting policies to further empower local stakeholders, private investors and cross-sectoral partnerships. The overall objective of INNOCASTLE is to ensure the sustainable preservation of HCME in four participating regions by remodeling current policies to better reflect the trends and future requirements such as more place-based approaches, need for economic and environmental resilience, and multi-actor involvement by means of developing and implementing 4 action plans targeting 4 specific policy instruments addressing HCME. The partnership of INNOCASTLE consists of experienced regions and knowledge intensive partners. They will collect existing practices, produce a rigorous analysis of the existing bottlenecks of addressed policy instruments and catalyse results into new and innovative regional policies and actions. Through the policy instruments, partners will strive to unlock the potential of these assets to a wider range of actors in order to enhance regional and sustainable development. INNOCASTLE’s approach is innovative and holistic. It involves a wide range of stakeholders based on the integrative quadruple helix structure. This way, it ensures an optimal and sustainable valorisation and uptake of integrated knowledge and experiences on all levels.

Achievements (EN):

In terms of activities, the project has organised a total of 32 policy learning events. It has also identified 15 good practices, produced 4 action plans and led to the increased capacity of 81 people. In terms of results, the project has succeeded in improving 1 regional development policies for a total amount of funds influenced of EUR 300,000. 00.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/interreg-europe-2014-2020

Expected Results (EN):

The overall objective of INNOCASTLE is to ensure the sustainable preservation of HCME in four participating regions by remodelling current policies to better reflect the trends and future requirements such as more place-based approaches, need for economic and environmental resilience, and multi-actor involvement by means of developing and implementing 4 action plans targeting 4 specific policy instruments addressing HCME before the end of 2022. Specific objectives are: 1) Governance and partnerships: Underline the importance of cross-sectoral, multi-level governance, place-based approaches based on quadruple helix partnerships in the sustainable preservation and revitalisation of HCME (from the perspectives of conservation, climate resilience, programming and promotion) by evaluating their benefits in the baseline survey, developing policy recommendations and by implementing frameworks for supporting this policy transition through the action plans in the 4 policy instruments addressed in INNOCASTLE by 2022. 2) Finance and investments: Increase the amount of public and private financing for programming and promotion of HCME by 10% in the partner regions by 2022 through adapting public policy, support measures and tax instruments to better promote public and private investment into HCME. 3) Promotion and visibility: Increase knowledge and skills of local and regional policy makers to better promote and facilitate the regional and interregional connections of HCME through storytelling, cultural routes and product development. 4) Dissemination and continuation: Open a European-wide discussion about the future of European HCME involving policy makers, owners, non-profit organisations, education institutions, civil society and creative visionaries by organising open events and investing in an active community in sharing and expanding knowledge on this niche topic.

Expected Outputs (EN):

INNOCASTLE will directly address 4 policy instruments in 5 countries, of which 2 are ROP’s dealing with measures targeting preservation of cultural and natural heritage. Certain differences in emphasis depending on the specificity of each policy instrument are described in section B2. However, all policy instruments will work towards improving their case-based flexibility and the long-term sustainable development of HCME through three main perspectives: 1. Improved governance - better integration of landscape and nature elements in the policy instruments. 2. Structural change - more efficient financing systems - developing programmes targeted specifically at actions that approach conservation through exploitation. Better public systems for attracting and working together with private funding. 3. New projects - stimulating the promotion, visibility and building of linkages between HCME. Through interregional learning activities, the partners of INNOCASTLE will exchange information on the three topics in order to improve the policy instruments addressed. The learning process is divided into three activities: - Baseline survey - all partners will analyse the policy instruments in-depth, based on a joint methodology. The results will be corroborated in 1 final publication which will be the main learning document of the project. Deliverables are 5 stakeholder maps and 10 case studies. 4 regional stakeholder meetings will be organised to obtain input (without INTO) - Organisational learning - 5 policy learning events will be organised, one by each partner. They will include a study visit, a thematic seminar, a peer review and a participant satisfaction survey. Formats for undergoing and documenting the events will be provided in advance. After all the events have taken place, 5 learning reports and 5 video presentation of each region will result. 4 regional stakeholder meetings will be organised to prepare the events and to draft action plans (without INTO) - Action Plan development - the 4 draft action plans will be reevaluated and peer reviewed in the policy hackathon event. With the input, the 4 action plans will be finalised during the last 4 regional stakeholder meetings. The LP will participate in 7-10 Interreg Policy Platform activities and will disseminate the learnings towards the partnership. The communication activities are quantified by several indicators. The project estimates that at the end of phase one it will have 3500 social media likes/ follows, a mailing list of 1000+, 55 press appearances and 20000+ number of sessions of the website. 4 communication events and 6 press conferences will be organised. All online communication will be kept well updated throughout the project. 1000 brochures and 5 institutional posters will be printed for dissemination purposes. The management activities will result in 9 SG meetings, 7 project reports, 1 partnership agreement, 1 subsidy contract, 1 pm guideline.

Thematic information

Cultural heritage and arts Regional planning and development

Specific Objective: Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, in the field of the protection and development of natural and cultural heritage

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06c) Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Institutul National de Patrimoniului

Department: Sediul Central / Headquarters

Address: str. Ienăchiță Văcărescu nr. 16, Sector 4, 40157 Bucharest, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://patrimoniu.gov.ro/ro/

Total budget: EUR 327 956.00

ERDF budget: EUR 278 762.60

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (NT)

Name: The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (NT)

Department: N/A

Address: Heelis, Kemble Drive, SN2 2NA Swindon, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/

Total budget: EUR 116 382.00

ERDF budget: EUR 87 286.50

Provincie Gelderland

Name: Provincie Gelderland

Address: Postbus 9090, 6800GX Arnhem, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gelderland.nl

Total budget: EUR 194 773.00

ERDF budget: EUR 165 557.05

Diputación de Badajoz

Name: Diputación de Badajoz

Department: Local Development

Address: C/ Tomás Romero de Castilla, 2, 6011 Badajoz, Spain

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.dip-badajoz.es/

Total budget: EUR 260 738.00

ERDF budget: EUR 221 627.30

Hogeschool Gent

Name: Hogeschool Gent

Address: Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hogent.be

Total budget: EUR 263 497.00

ERDF budget: EUR 223 972.45

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Summary

Project name (EN): INNOvating policy instruments for historic CASTLEs, manors and estates

Project acronym: Innocastle

Project start date: 2018-06-01

Project end date: 2022-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 163 346.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 977 205.90

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 977 205.90.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Action Plan Flanders

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2021-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan Gelderland

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2021-02-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan Province of Badajoz

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2021-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action Plan Romania

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2021-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

INNOCASTLE Baseline Survey

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2022-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

Country House Survival - Ben Cowell, director general Historic Houses

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: en

Innocastle Baseline Survey Launch

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: en

Innocastle pitch - Democratisation of heritage

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: en

Innocastle pitch - Re-thinking productive estates

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: en

Innocastle pitch - Rebuilding rural communities

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: en

Innocastle Study Visit - West Flanders (BE) - English Subtitles

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2023-11-02

Languages: nl

The adaptation of European Country Houses in times of COVID-19

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/innocastle/

Publication date: 2023-08-02

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: en

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