East Midlands FRESA targets project

Reviewed employment and skills targets in use by organisations in the East Midlands in order to inform the development of targets for the East Midlands Framework for Employment and Skills action (FRESA). Established target development process later adopted by emda for 2006 RES. Developed criteria for applying to future selection of economic performance monitoring metrics - especially for skills, based on extant best practice, such as the Treasury's 'Green Book'

UN PERCORSO METODOLOGICO MULTIDISCIPLINARE PER RIPENSARE L’AREA INTERNA “MONTAGNA MATERANA”

The research focuses on the issue of Italian Inner Areas. The methodological approach has been oriented to define an intervention strategy based on transdisciplinary and cross-scale knowledge regarding the case study context. Starting from the Montagna Materana, the pilot inner area of Basilicata, the contribution identifies and describes the developed methodological process. Different investigation, interpretation and evaluation tools are integrated at the aim of understanding the territory as a complex cultural landscape, both immaterial and material. An open, incremental, place-based and culture-led strategy is defined studying morphology, characteristic elements of the landscape, territorial dynamics and socio-cultural issues. Such an approach is capable of generating new values and multiple relationships between local communities and different parties of the territory. The proposed scenarios identify ways and forms of landscape regeneration and local development, structured within a network capable of enhancing the infinite territorial potential from a cultural perspective

Collaborative Decision-Making Processes for Cultural Heritage Enhancement: The Play ReCH Platform

These days, cultural heritage is one of the topics at the center of the urban sustainability agenda. Current economic and urbanization trends place significant pressure on urban resources, systems, and infrastructures and demand for novel approaches in governing, financing, and monitoring urban performances with particular attention to abandoned, unused, or underutilized cultural heritage, defined “waste heritage.” In this perspective, cities are laboratories where innovative and collaborative approaches can be tested, and culture-led processes can be implemented consistent with circular economy principles. In order to structure and activating collaborative decision-making processes for regeneration and adaptive transformation of cultural heritage, gamification assumes a central role. The chapter analyzes the interaction among gamification and collaborative decision-making processes relevant to support the enhancement of cultural heritage and describes the Play ReCH (Reuse Cultural Heritage) platform, winner of the 2019 Welfare Che Impresa call, activated with the purpose to promote a cultural creative enterprise and include cooperation and innovation in cultural heritage regeneration processes. Play ReCH allows rethinking the management model of cultural heritage reuse through gamification processes in combining technology and reality, involving city users within creative processes

RES implementation plan 2007

The Implementation Plan is an important mechanism to deliver the actions articulated in the Regional Economic Strategy: ‘A Flourish Region’, published in 2006. The Plan is a product of partnership collaboration, which maps how public, private and voluntary sector organisations in the East Midlands are putting their resource behind delivering the 59 priority actions identified in the RES

A multiple criteria methodology for prioritizing and selecting portfolios of urban projects

This paper presents an integrated methodology supporting decisions in urban planning. In particular, it deals with the prioritization and the selection of a portfolio of projects related to buildings of some values for the cultural heritage in cities. More precisely, our methodology has been validated to the historical center of Naples, Italy. Each project is assessed on the basis of a set of both quantitative and qualitative criteria with the purpose to determine their level of priority for further selection. This step was performed through the application of the Electre Tri-nC method which is a multiple criteria outranking based method for ordinal classification (or sorting) problems and allows to assign a priority level to each project as an analytical "recommendation" tool. To identify the efficient portfolios and to support the selection of the most adequate set of projects to activate, a set of resources (namely budgetary constraints) as well as some logical constraints related to urban policy requirements have to be taken into consideration together with the priority of projects in a portfolio analysis model. The process has been conducted by means of the interaction between analysts, municipality representative and experts. The proposed methodology is generic enough to be applied to other territorial or urban planning problems. We strongly believe that, given the increasing interest of historical cities to restore their cultural heritage, the integrated multiple criteria decision aiding analytical tool proposed in this paper has significant potential to be used in the future

Regenerative Territories

This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of wastescapes. The main focus is the development over time, and in particular the way how spatial planning and strategies respond to new unpredictable urgencies and opportunities related with territorial metabolisms. The book specifically focuses on living labs environments, where it is possible to tackle complex problems through a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach - including the use of digital spatial decision support environment – which could be able to include all the involved stakeholders. Through a spatial scope of circularity, this book describes several examples including among others ideas from different contexts such as Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Vietnam. Through including reflections on methodology and representation, as well as on solutions for circular and healthy metabolisms, the book provides an excellent resource to researchers and students

Regenerative Territories: Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of wastescapes. The main focus is the development over time, and in particular the way how spatial planning and strategies respond to new unpredictable urgencies and opportunities related with territorial metabolisms. The book specifically focuses on living labs environments, where it is possible to tackle complex problems through a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach - including the use of digital spatial decision support environment – which could be able to include all the involved stakeholders. Through a spatial scope of circularity, this book describes several examples including among others ideas from different contexts such as Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Vietnam. Through including reflections on methodology and representation, as well as on solutions for circular and healthy metabolisms, the book provides an excellent resource to researchers and students

A sector skills agreement for the lifelong learning sector. Stage 1: Skills Needs Assessment (SNA)

"This report and its associated annexes represent the main outputs of an extensive programme of both primary and secondary research undertaken between May and November 2006 by the independent consultants SQW, in collaboration with Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK), the Sector Skills Council for the lifelong learning sector. This research forms the first and foundation stage of the Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) process for the lifelong learning sector, the skills needs assessment." - Page 11