Our Strategy

Our current network strategy was launched in 2023:

The RURITAGE network aims to continue promote a multidisciplinary approach to analysing and finding solutions to face rural challenges, and identifying and promote heritage values through bottom-up approach. This approach includes social and human considerations together with those of a biophysical nature. The strategy sets out our current research priorities, and indicates how we hope to cooperate with others to put them into practice.

Simona Tondelli, chairwoman
Alma mater studiorum – University of Bologna

We have identified four priorities for us as a network:

to make all tools and methodologies available to those who can take advantage of and benefit from them, including their maintenance and promotion to foster uptake.
to share the notable success stories and results including those achieved through the implementation of Regeneration and Enhancement Plans in Replicators and Role Models that can serve as key case studies.
to continue to exchange experiences, expertise, knowledge and know-how for the purposes of rural regeneration and enhancement through cultural and natural heritage.
to continue to disseminate the RURITAGE approach beyond the originally involved territories to maximise its exploitation potential and uptake of tools from a global perspective.”