Periodic Reporting for period 2 - RescueME (Equitable RESilience solutions to strengthen the link between CUltural landscapEs and coMmunitiEs)
Reporting period: 2024-02-01 to 2025-01-31
The project is structured in eight objectives:
1. Building the frame: Developing a replicable RescueME Actionable Framework based on the Resilient Historical Landscape approach, integrating socio-ecological-cultural aspects and utilizing advanced technologies for data-driven assessment.
2. Triggering action using a multi-scale method to make the value of Cultural Landscapes (CL) and heritage diversity quantifiable, considering soft benefits like well-being and tourism, aiming to trigger action at both European and local levels.
3. Mobilize resources through ready-to-use tools like organigraphs for stakeholder mapping, Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), and crowdsourcing techniques, engaging communities and cultural sectors for heritage stewardship.
4. Facilitate evidence-based decision-making with a meta-repository of solutions from previous projects, characterized by their impact and carbon footprint, implemented through a dynamic decision support system.
5. Co-produce local knowledge and increase engagement of communities with CL through interactive knowledge co-production, aiming to enhance social awareness and appreciation of resilience measures.
6. Monitoring & managing: Develop an indicator-based monitoring strategy linked to resilience pathways, engaging communities in co-monitoring heritage diversity and identifying adaptive governance models.
7. Transfer & scale-up, and tailor proposed policies and actions through a Community of Practice, producing a long-term agenda for transformative resilience and providing user-friendly information through a one-stop-shop.
WP2 activities were also completed by around 70%. The RescueME resilience meta-repository was finalized, collecting 1000 solutions, including those from the culture and creative industries sector and innovative financing strategies. Adaptive governance solutions were included, and governance maps were co-created with R-Labs. In WP3, technical specifications and data mapping were upgraded, updated, and integrated, providing a comprehensive reference for all partners. AI-based tools, including mapping models, the Social Media Data Analysis (SMDA) tool, and the Chatbot, were designed, implemented, and deployed.
Similarly to the first period, WP1, WP2 and WP3 have been continually supported, fed, shaped and fine-tuned by the work carried out in WP4, where the 5 R-Labs that were established across Europe have been coordinated to provide continuous inputs for co-creation, validation and replication of all the results. These R-Labs have been supported theoretically and methodologically by the co-creation and engagement framework for the community approach that was created in the first period. In the second reporting period, WP4 activities were completed to approximately 60%. The local resilience baseline assessment was finalized by evaluating questionnaires about indicators provided by the R-Labs.