Collective collaboration between NGOs, associated and non-associated
agents can capitalise knowledge, experience and expertise in initiatives for social change.
This contribution focusses on forms of citizen engagement funded by international and
local agencies for urban regeneration. Focus on the city of Lisbon allows to shed light
on the multi-scale intersections between the international project “ROCK - Regeneration
and Optimisation of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities” funded by the
European Commission, and the programme for urban regeneration “BIPZIP - Bairros de
Intervenção Prioritária Zonas de Intervenção Prioritária” promoted by the municipality of
Lisbon. The international project and the local programme aim to engage foster collective
collaborative actions for urban regeneration, with cultural heritage as the main driver in
the ROCK project and socio-territorial cohesion as the core issue in the BIPZIP programme.
Zooming in on the specific urban area of intervention between Marvila and Beato
neighbourhoods, this contribution retrieves some inputs from the empirical knowledge
collected within the ongoing research conducted by the authors in Lisbon. We argue that
the lack of an integrated management between the project and the programme can be
considered as emerging burdens due to limited multi-scale intersections between the
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