Research

The research objective and the structuring of the methods to prove it dictated the work programme and the design of the research, which starts with two analytical strands. The first, covered by work packages WP1 and WP2, will collect and integrate data that will form the basis for answering questions about the role of ICH in the future sustainable development of Slovenia. The second analytical work package covers WP3 and WP4. The first will address the characteristics and conditions for sustainable transformations in smaller local communities outside regional centres and their attitudes towards the revitalisation of derelict ICH with adaptive reuse. WP4 will analyse in depth existing planning and management approaches and tools developed. The results of all four WPs will form the basis for the design of the CH 4.0 model in WP5. WP6 is organised in the form of experimental laboratories (RevitLabs) in four small towns in the Eastern cohesion region of Slovenia.