Atelier European Fortresses - Powering Local Sustainable Development

Programme 2007 - 2013 Interreg IVC

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

The historic environment of Europe is one of its greatest assets and an effective means of reconciling the needs of citizens, economy, community, environment, and society at large: But we cannot take it for granted! Our built heritage is valuable and vulnerable and securing its benefits now and in the future demands focussed action and investment from society, the heritage sector, and above all, the public authorities. Aware of these possibilities and challenges, New Dutch Waterline proposed the AT FORT project outline to significant European fortified heritage sites who share the firm belief that preservation of these sites, coupled with their economic exploitation can only be achieved by creative, mutual thinking, building on an exchange of experiences. AT FORT partners have set the OVERALL OBJECTIVE ‘to facilitate the adaptive re-use of fortified heritage sites by exploring solutions for successful approaches and methods to deal with enabling conditions and to create better frameworks for their exploitation'. Partners identified common fields of challenges that represent bottlenecks for the effective exploitation of these cultural values and defined 3 SUB-OBJECTIVES corresponding to the problem areas. They will work to: 1. Identify and further improve solutions and tools dealing with crucial enabling conditions of the adaptive re-use of fortified heritage sites 2. Identify and investigate the transferability potential of various existing redevelopment models for multifunctional use of fortified heritage sites 3. Elaborate effective (workable) governance models taking into account innovative PPP solutions, legal issues, models for branding Objectives are accomplished by the integrated ”Conservation through development” approach, involvement of relevant stakeholders and capitalizing on partners’ experiences. The OUTPUTS of At Fort ACTIONS will directly contribute to the achievement of these objectives through the following MAIN PROJECT RESULTS: SELF ANALYSIS REPORTS reflecting the status quo and results achieved in each region A MATRIX OF GOOD PRACTICES identified GOOD PRACTICE TRANSFER VISITS (Ateliers) exploring possibilities of transfers A TOOLKIT, which is a collection of good strategies for the sustainable exploitation of fortified heritage sites IMPLEMENTATION PLANS for each partner region, describing the future actions planned to ensure that benefits of the exchange are not lost. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS targeted to the local and regional level. The At Fort PARTNERSHIP includes 11 partners, representing 7 old and 4 new MS. Partners are local and regional authorities, public bodies and knowledge institutes with experience in the field of cultural heritage and with capacity to ensure direct continuity of the project results. Roles and task are distributed between the partners in a balan+A3155ced way, building on their existing experience and transferable know how, and exploiting complementarities in the best possible way.

Achievements (EN):

The Interreg IV C project At Fort has started very well in the first 6 months of 2012. A Strategic Preparatory Meeting (Venice, 21st and 22nd of April 2012) was organised in 3 sessions: teambuilding (participants get to know each other through short presentations), content (division of tasks and methodology) and administrative issues. A Draft Project Implementation Plan was discussed by the Leadpartner including financial rules and procedures for SG and Policy Repr. The draft of the Partnership Agreement was discussed as well and a final version was agreed on. First task for the partners is to make a Self Analysis Report (SAR). A first draft of the outline was made and send around to all partners for comments. This outline contains two parts: one for describing the state of the art for each partner regarding the three themes (enabling conditions, multifunctional use and governance) and a second part for giving information about more organisational matters (methodology of SAR, proposal for content and preference of ateliers, good practises to be discussed in the Good Practise Engineering Workshop, final dates for completion). Based on the comments of the partners the final draft of the SAR-outline was finished and presented at the Preparatory Meeting in April. For this meeting the Pecha Kucha method was outlined to introduce the partners and their projects to each other. Furthermore the partner Komárom has produced the Communication Plan, in cooperation with the LP. The website and project identity (logos and templates) were launched. The website is (i) an internal communication tool, (ii) it will be used to disseminate key information on project objectives and implementation progress including planned events and their outputs to public. The website had already 368 visitors after the launch. On May 21st-23rd 85 people visited the At Fort Launch Event at the New Dutch Waterline in Utrecht, Netherlands. Examples of multifunctional re-use were visited, enabling conditions were discussed with both local stakeholders and experts. The results of different governance models were visited and reviewed. The partnership agreement was signed by the official representatives of the partners. This meeting was hosted by the LP chairman together with Mrs. Pennaerts, member of the Provincial Executive of the Province of Utrecht. Two press releases were made: the French partner made a press release for the regional partners in France and PP6 and the LP made a general press release for the launch event for all the partners. Both had results in several newspapers.

Website: http://www.atfort.eu

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Cultural heritage and arts

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie/ Dienst Landelijk gebied

Address: PO Box 406, 2500 AK Utrecht, Netherlands

Legal status: n/a

Réseau des sites majeurs de Vauban

Name: Réseau des sites majeurs de Vauban

Address: 2, rue Mégevand, 25034 Besan, France

Legal status: n/a

Comune di Venezia

Name: Comune di Venezia

Address: San Marco 4136, 30124 Venice, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Kauno miesto savivaldybės administracija

Name: Kauno miesto savivaldybės administracija

Address: Laisves av. 96, 44521 Kaunas, Lithuania

Legal status: n/a

Univerza v Novi Gorici

Name: Univerza v Novi Gorici

Address: Kostanjeviška cesta 16, 5000 Nova Gorica (Pristava), Slovenia

Legal status: n/a

Monostori Erőd Hadkultúra Központ Műemlékhelyreállító, Ingatlanfenntartó és –hasznosító Non-profit Közhasznú Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság (Rövidített név: Monostori Erőd Non-profit Kft.)

Name: Monostori Erőd Hadkultúra Központ Műemlékhelyreállító, Ingatlanfenntartó és –hasznosító Non-profit Közhasznú Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság (Rövidített név: Monostori Erőd Non-profit Kft.)

Address: Duna-part 1., 2900 Komárom, Hungary

Legal status: n/a

Fondazzjoni Wirt Paola

Name: Fondazzjoni Wirt Paola

Address: 95, Church Avenue, PLA 06 Paola, Malta

Legal status: n/a

Suomenlinnan hoitokunta

Name: Suomenlinnan hoitokunta

Address: Suomenlinna C40, 190 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: n/a

Provinciebestuur Antwerpen

Name: Provinciebestuur Antwerpen

Address: Koningin Elisabethlei 22, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium

Legal status: n/a

Bezirksamt Spandau von Berlin –Zitadelle Spandau

Name: Bezirksamt Spandau von Berlin –Zitadelle Spandau

Address: Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Medway Council

Name: Medway Council

Address: Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Kent ME4 4TR Chatham, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

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Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie/ Dienst Landelijk gebied

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Réseau des sites majeurs de Vauban

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Comune di Venezia

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Kaunas city municipal administration

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University of Nova Gorica

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Paola Heritage Foundation

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Suomenlinnan hoitokunta

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Provinciebestuur Antwerpen

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Bezirksamt Spandau von Berlin –Zitadelle Spandau

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Medway Council

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Project name (EN): Atelier European Fortresses - Powering Local Sustainable Development

Project acronym: AT FORT

Project start date: 2012-01-01

Project end date: 2014-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 170 753.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 692 578.30

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2007 - 2013 Interreg IVC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2015-09-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

204 / 204 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 250 / 2 250 (100%)

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