3rd TEMPUS Project Partnership Meeting Held
The project partners held the third TEMPUS project partnership meeting (TEMPorary USes as start-up actions to enhance port (in)tangible heritage) via Webex on 29 and 30 July 2020. The topic of the meeting was the implementation of activities in the third period of the project, as well as the emphasis on future activities.
Each partner presented its activities, and the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o., as the manager of work package 4 entitled Telling stories of port cities for entrepreneurial innovations of heritage management, gave a complete coverage of implemented all involved partners. The emphasis was on the organization of a virtual exhibition of the history of the pilot ports of Rijeka, Ravenna and Solin. This exhibition will be organized on the basis of research conducted by pilot cities to highlight the historical aspect of port development and their impact through various epochs on their surroundings, and visitors will additionally acquire knowledge about commercial, productive and leisure activities that characterized the life of ports and the evolution of relations between the two coasts of the Adriatic Sea. This virtual exhibition will be a good basis for entrepreneurs who will be able to apply for an open competition for entrepreneurial ideas that can be implemented in the port area, which connect the past and the present with an emphasis on materials (goods), technology, people and culture. The aim is therefore to allow temporary use of the space for various activities that foster the tangible and intangible heritage of the ports.
The project partners also discussed the management and financial elements of the project; the stages of drafting a document on the in-depth analysis of port areas, which will end up with an Urban Strategy for Ports of Pilot Cities, and the partners discussed the essential elements of the same; This is the basis for launching calls for entrepreneurs and applying for their ideas, project promotion activities, etc.
The TEMPUS project aims to achieve changes that affect the diverse and unusual heritage of urban ports and the untapped potential of local communities and their direct inclusion in the definition and launch of urban strategies. In this sense, the project will focus on the idea of urban ports as a combination of tradition, history, activities, architecture and culture, which will enable the creation of new contextual values that need to be capitalized to initiate a wider scope of the process of valorization and regeneration of cultural and natural heritage to further foster well-being and create a new life for the urban port areas of the Adriatic ports, which have deep roots in their cultural, urban and entrepreneurial dimensions.
The project activities are co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Interreg V-A Italy-Croatia Programme, with a total value of EUR 2,706,920,00, and last until the end of 2021.
Rijeka, 31 July 2020
