09:00 - 09:15 From Pilot Actions to Lasting Change – commentary on New European Bauhaus on the Danube impact and future challenges
- Opening address by Laura Hagemann Arellano, representative of NEB Unit at the European Commission, highlights of Reșița industrial heritage revitalization efforts under the New European Bauhaus framework: the Funicular, Minda Warehouse, and the Factory Greenhouses NEB Festival Satellite event
Moderators: Mateja Softić and Zdravko Kozinc, Iskriva
09:15 - 10:45 Panel #4 Multi-Stakeholder Governance
Effective brownfield reindustrialisation and heritage revitalization cannot be delivered by public authorities alone. It requires the active involvement of civil society, the business community, academia and citizens - the four pillars of the quadruple helix (4H) approach that underpins the ReInd-BBG methodology. This panel examines how multi-stakeholder governance models have been built, tested and institutionalised in communities across the Danube Region and beyond.
- Mateja Softić, Co-Founder of Institute Iskriva: On the Restored Old Ironworks in Ravne na Koroškem, Slovenia
- Ana Schlupp, Executive Director of Banat Mountains Community Foundation: Co-Revitalizing the Factory Glasshouses. Civic Stewardship and Community Governance in Post-Industrial Sites
- Andreea Jager Tako, Co-founder of the PLAI Cultural Centre and Trans Halle Europe Executive Committee member: Civic and Cultural Activation of Industrial Spaces as a Pathway To Broader Transformations. On AMBASADA
- Georgiana Mihailova, Vice-President of CR.EU Metacluster: Beyond the Project Cycle – CR.EU Metacluster as a Model for Lasting Creative-Public Collaboration
- Dr. Adam Hajduga, Vice-president of ERIH: On Multi-level Stakeholder Coordination for Regional Routes
Moderator: Bogdan Suditu, MKBT
10:45 -11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:15 A vision for Moving Forward – Presentation of the working group sessions.
11:15 - 12:45 Workshops
WG1 | UNLEASH Innovation Workshop: Exploring Revitalization and Regeneration Through Innovation, moderated by Kyle Wiebe and Nina Soraa, UNLEASH.ORG
This interactive, innovation workshop provides participants with a glimpse into UNLEASH’s user-centred design methodologies, and the engaging, hands-on activities participants undertake while part of UNLEASH programming. Centred on the themes of revitalization and regeneration, participants will work in teams to learn how to reframe complex problems, identify root causes, and generate bold ideas. By the end of the session, participants will walk away with practical tools for problem framing and ideation, a deeper understanding of how to collaborate across perspectives, and insights into how UNLEASH can help drive your organizations strategic goals.
WG2 | Insight into Impact Finance and Investment Readiness - moderated by Fund 2740/Primož Šporar
Drawing on the ReInd-BBG and NONA work on financing instruments and PPP models, this group explores practical pathways to improve investment readiness in brownfield sites and reduce the financing barriers that perpetuate land conversion pressure. The workshop will explore pathways to building local impact investment ecosystems to support investments with social impact. The workshop will provide an insight into impact investing and provide tools and steps for impact design and how cities and regions can use them to build local ecosystems supporting socially and environmentally sustainable business models for supporting urban regeneration processes.
WG3 | Cooperation Networks - moderated by MKBT and ERIH
We trust that consolidating ecosystems of support is more so important to authorities of smaller constituencies. In this working session we will brainstorm and explore partnership ideas across sectors – public administration, businesses, civil society and academia – inspired by work presented in prior conference sessions. This workshop will build on the Reșita 250 LAB ecosystem experience and ERIH network facilitation example to draw concrete follow-up actions for this conference.
12:30 - 13:00 Conclusions and Closing Remarks
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch break & networking
15:00 Departure towards Guided Tours (organized transport, by bus)
15:30 - 18:00 Sparking Inspiration! Guided tours.
Walk through Reșița’s remarkable industrial heritage sites undergoing transformation.
- Group 1: A dive into Reșița’s steelworks and blast furnace site. Reșița is proud to be one of just two steel production centres in nowadays Romania, with steel being produced here continuously since 1771. This tour offers a unique opportunity to an otherwise active production site to discover Reșița’s outstanding history of steel production, currently operated by Artrom Steel Tubes SA. The Blast Furnace No. 2, a listed heritage monument, is prospected for a major industrial heritage restoration and functional conversion project, envisioned to be kicked off with ITI support.
- Group 2: A guided discovery of the old UCMR site – a 30-ha estate including historical warehouses, factory management protocol villas, bunkers, and the factory glasshouses in process of being reclaimed and opened to the community in a public-civic effort.
Tour details are communicated via email to all those that filled in the conference registration form. Those who participate in Group 1 can opt to continue the tour to the old UCMR site (following the same route as Group 2).
