Project HISTCAPE. Regional Stakeholder Meeting. partner level report

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1 Project HISTCAPE Regional Stakeholder Meeting partner level report Partner 9: Vidzeme Planning Region Date of the meeting: Place of the meeting: Cēsis, Vidzeme Region Duration of the meeting: 5 hours Number of Participants: 50 List of the participants: representatives from the municipalities, culture and nature experts, experts from Vidzeme Planning Region, spatial planning experts, NGO's, project consultants, societies, new architects. Main subject and aim of the meeting: information for the further activities in the project HISTCAPE; discussion on the good practices of Vidzeme Planning Region in Thematic Topics (Henceforward - TT): TT4 Community support in protection: horizontal governance, involvement and empowering the community on local cultural heritage management (Henceforward - TT4); TT5 Capacity for developing innovative and added-value activities for historical values in rural areas related with enhancement of cultural heritage assets and landscapes (Henceforward - TT5) and TT6 Capacity for territorial development by on-place based cultural values enhancement (Henceforward - TT6); Vidzeme Planning Regions needs in culture and landscape protection spheres; presentation of the international summer school activities as one of the project HISTCAPE s good practice.

2 Summary of the meeting: Discussion on good practices in TT4, TT5 and TT6: Stakeholders gave their examples of the good practices (well-known examples Society North Vidzeme Geopark in TT4; Cesvaine Palace in TT5; The old Anteni Kilnhouse TT6; Ligatne Heritage Centre and Paper Factory in TT6). The common aspects from the stakeholder discussion on the indentified good practices are that all practices need to include cultural heritage values, innovation factors and need focusing on natural values (related with landscapes) protection. Stakeholders also indentified their expectations with regard to the HISTCAPE project. Vidzeme Planning Region needs to get more new and practical information on protection instruments in the natural and landscape areas as well as in culture heritage protection field. The main focuses are natural culture values and landscapes that are a very significance part of the culture heritage in Latvia. Presentation of the summer school activities: The summer school is indentified as good practice in the HISTCAPE project in TT5. The Summer School is a compact and intensive format of both learning from and delivering fresh ideas for the city it takes place in. It is a new and innovative way for students to learn new skills at their professional level and at the same time it is an interesting way to learn how to make urban, cultural and social areas of the city more attractive taking into account cultural heritage significance. For Cesis it is a chance to collect fresh ideas and discover new territories and ways for future development. The city becomes more interesting and useful for local inhabitants as well as for tourists. Students presented their work in the five units: «Eventology»; «Healing Spaces»; «Down the Rabbit Hole»; «Afterparty»; «Screening Utopia». Annexes: Agenda of the meeting Signed Attendance sheet

3 Annex 1 Stakeholder meeting on project HISTorical assets and related landscape (HITSCAPE) Agenda Seminar language english, latvian Friday, 10th August 12:00 12:30 - Registration, coffee 12:30-12:45 Opening of the meeting. Project HISTCAPE Manager Lelde Gavare 12:45-13:15 Short introduction with HITSCAPE project activities. Project HISTCAPE Manager Lelde Gavare 13:15 14:00 Disscusion on good practices in project HISTCAPE context. Project HISTCAPE Manager Lelde Gavare and Vidzeme Planning Region Spatinal planner Anda Eihenbauma. 14:00 15:30 Presentations of student ideas. Moderated by Toms Kokins director of RTU international summer school. 15:30 16:00 Coffee break. 16:00 17:00 Discussions about RTU international summer school as good practice in project HISTCAPE context and other good practices examples. Questions and answers moderated by Toms Kokins and Lelde Gavare. 17: opening of the excibition about student ideas and environmental art object in Cesis historical centre.

4 Signed Attendance sheet Annex 2

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