“Recovering stories from the past for a sustainable future”
Asset Tec participates in the new HORIZON EUROPE project Restory, coordinated by the Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU) of Romania, in cooperation with 20 partners from 12 countries.
Researchers and community development experts from 12 European countries, coordinated by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, will analyse resource management strategies from the last 800 years in rural and urban communities to provide contemporary generations with strong examples of sustainable development. The activities will be carried out for three years within a research project funded by the European Commission under the HORIZON EUROPE financing mechanism with a budget of 3 million euros.
The project RESTORY – Recovering Past Stories for the Future: A Synergistic Approach to Textual and Oral Heritage of Small Communities will launch at the beginning of 2024, bringing together 20 partners – universities, public institutions, companies, and NGOs – from 12 European countries. RESTORY is the first Research and Innovation project on cultural heritage won by an academic institution in Romania, as well as the first investigation of this type coordinated by BBU within the HORIZON EUROPE funding programme.
The core of the project consists of a series of case studies inspired by the historical experience of the Transylvanian Saxons, who built prosperous settlements in the Middle Ages on the territory of present-day Romania, some still admired as part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. This model of successful practices in the sustainable management of material and human resources has placed a special emphasis on local schooling, on intuitive circular economy processes and on affective communication strategies in relation to inhabited places.
For more information download the project press release: