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The Kavala Strategic Agenda 2030 has been a joint effort of URBASOFIA (Pietro Elisei, Sabina Dimitriu), TASCA Studio (Cristina Tartari, Fabiana Aneghini, and Eurodite (Joep de Roo, Livia Morega), together with international experts and planners such as Derek Martin, Daniela Patti, Levente Polyak, which have contributed to the shaping of the city's strategy for the next 15 years.
Paper containing my final project for Technicity course. It consists of an analisys about what are the general conditions to take into account when setting up a framework for an Intelligent City project. These general conditions form the meta-framework.
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The Kavala Strategic Agenda 2030 has been a joint effort of URBASOFIA (Pietro Elisei, Sabina Dimitriu), TASCA Studio (Cristina Tartari, Fabiana Aneghini, and Eurodite (Joep de Roo, Livia Morega), together with international experts and planners such as Derek Martin, Daniela Patti, Levente Polyak, which have contributed to the shaping of the city's strategy for the next 15 years.
Paper containing my final project for Technicity course. It consists of an analisys about what are the general conditions to take into account when setting up a framework for an Intelligent City project. These general conditions form the meta-framework.
To develop the present work, I hav econsidered a concrete example: that of i-Coruña, the Intelligent City Project for A Coruña (North-Western Spain)
The integrated strategic agenda for Kavala (2030) represents a planning document designed by the URBASOFIA team together with international experts (Derek Martin, Cristina Tartari - TASCA Studio, Joep de Roo - Eurodite, Daniela Patti, Levente Polyak) for the city of Kavala, Greece, through the South East Europe project STATUS.
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O estudo será agora objecto de discussão pública. Entretanto, os autores avisam que a sua concretização, tal como é proposto, implicará várias iniciativas legislativas, que estimam possam estender-se por cerca de seis meses.
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Presentation delivered by Elena Marchigiani, Deputy Mayor for Town Planning, Mobility and Traffic, Housing, Trieste, for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
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Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
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The use Cohesion Funds in Italy to support legality and anti-corruptionOpenCoesione
Intervento Simona De Luca, The good practices of territorial cohesion and prevention of organised crime for a more united and fairer Europe
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The collective work coordinated by the Planning Agency of Marseille (AGAM) presents a panel of good practice between ports and cities in France and abroad, around the themes of environmental, economic, and urban governance
Presentation by Francesc Xavier Grau i Vidal, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, on the occasion of the EESC workshop on Universities for Europe (Brussels, 13 June 2014)
Best Practice Guide to Accessible Routes in Historic Cities - 2013 by LHAC Scott Rains
Launched in 2010, the League of Historical and Accessible Cities (LHAC) is a pilot project focusing on improving the accessibility of historical towns while at the same time promoting the development of sustainable tourism and the protection of cultural heritage.
The main goal of the project is not only to allow people with disabilities and their families to take full enjoyment from leisure and cultural activities, but also to stimulate tourism among the 80 million people with disabilities living in Europe.
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O estudo do novo “modelo contratual e mecanismos de regulação do sector portuário”, ontem apresentado em Lisboa, promete dar que falar. Pelas inovações que prognostica e pelas “velhas” aspirações que acolhe.
Depois de fazer o diagnóstico da situação, o estudo, realizado por docentes da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, aponta cinco medidas essenciais: a alteração do modelo de governação dos portos, a centralização de decisões em matérias de âmbito nacional, a criação de uma entidade reguladora independente, a redefinição das linhas orientação das concessões e a criação de um novo modelo tarifário.
Entre as inovações (pelo menos para o mercado nacional) propostas estão a selecção de concessionários por leilão, ou a não definição prévia do prazo das concessões, ou a criação de um fundo sectorial para investimentos nos portos e nas acessibilidades terrestres e no co-financiamento nacional dos projectos candidatados a fundos comunitários.
Entre as aspirações do sector (ou pelo menos de segmentos dele), constam a criação do regulador independente, a revisão do modelo tarifário, a manutenção no sector portuário das receitas das administrações portuárias, etc..
Presente na apresentação do estudo, o secretário de Estado dos Transportes insistiu na revisão dos contratos das actuais concessões (que, ao que o TRANSPORTES & NEGÓCIOS apurou, pouco tem avançado apesar se ter sido anunciada há já vários meses) e desafiou os portos a escolherem, depressa e bem, os projectos que querem candidatar aos fundos comunitários, e a equacionarem a hipótese de criarem zonas francas, com benefícios fiscais que atraíssem investimentos e alavancassem a actividade.
O estudo será agora objecto de discussão pública. Entretanto, os autores avisam que a sua concretização, tal como é proposto, implicará várias iniciativas legislativas, que estimam possam estender-se por cerca de seis meses.
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In spite of a weakened economic environment in Portugal, Sines Container Terminal saw its volume surge by nearly 70%. New traffic from Asia to West Africa and increased cargo movement to US/ Canada contributed to the strong performance at Sines. The terminal’s second phase of development got underway with the quay being extended by 210 metres to 940 metres.
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Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
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Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
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• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
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What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
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We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI support
Evora project
1. L’atelier En route vers Oaxaca – Document officiel
The members in good standing of the OWHC that wish to submit a project to the On the
Way to Oaxaca workshop, which will be held in Cordoba on June 4-5 and 6, 2013, must
complete this Call for Projects and send their file to the General Secretariat of the OWHC
(secretariat@ovpm.org) on Monday, December 10, 2012 at the latest.
City: Évora
Mayor (political authority): José Ernesto d’Oliveira
Date and duration of the mandate: elected in 2009 (4 years term), until October 2013
Person in charge: Nuno Domingos
Name: Nuno Domingos
Position: Director of the Department of Historic Centre, Culture and Heritage of the
Municipality of Évora
Co-author of the project: Jon Kohl
Title of the project: Évora’s Public Use Plan
Mailing address, telephone number and email:
Municipality of Évora
Praça do Sertório s/n
7004-506 Évora Portugal
Tel.: 351 266 777000
Email: nunodomingos@cm-evora.pt
Project completed Project in progress
Date of completion: December of 2013 Expected date of completion:
What percentage of the project is completed? Specify.
We’ve completed three of the eleven modules.
Information on the city
1. Significant historic, demographic and geographic characteristics
2. Present function of the city (administrative capital, economic metropolis, etc.)
3. Major economic activities
The city of Évora is the main urban centre of the region, in population and functional
terms. The social and economic dynamics of the city has managed to counter the
tendency of the region as a whole, maintaining a growth similar to other medium-
sized cities in Portugal. In the past few decades the growing urbanization of
population presents itself as a global trend, with the increase of population transfer
of small clusters to urban centers, either to big or to medium-sized cities. As
Portugal has an urbanization rate much lower than the rest of Europe it seems that
the dynamics of growth of urban centers continue to provide values substantially
higher than the surrounding regions. This reality is also associated with a positive
net migration. The demographic projections for 2016 are based on the migratory
movement in support of population growth. The valorization of the environmental
2. component and the promotion of sustainable development have gained special
importance in the region in recent years. The appreciation of natural areas or of
defined environmental valences, along with economic sustainability and a qualified
social-cultural local network, have been constituted as assumptions made by
society in general and by the organs of sovereignty in particular. In the short term
the region will have new infrastructure that will promote the logistics of the county
and the city, reinforcing the role of Lead as a city of Évora Alentejo region. The High
Speed train Lisbon-Madrid is in the design phase and is scheduled a stop north of
the city of Évora. With regard to freight rail, it is also planned a link between the
Sines platform to Spain, also passing through Évora.
Because of its location, Évora has spaced itself as a hinge between the coast of
Alentejo and Extremadura. In fact, the platform ensures the port of Sines as a
shipping cargo between northern and southern Europe as well as a road access
(IC33, IP2 and A6) across Europe through the port city of Elvas. It is assumed that
this dynamic is enhanced in the future via the TGV rail corridor, which will also have
a stop in Évora.
Given its size, centrality and visibility in the national context, Évora emerges as the
pole in a better position to lead the hierarchy of regional urban system. Indeed, the
city clearly has a cultural and academic vocation. In conjunction with the national
urban system, medium-sized cities in the Alentejo region with particular relevance to
Évora, should contribute jointly to promote the harmonious development of
complementary regional network.
4. Information on the Property inscribed on the World Heritage List
Name of property:
R: The Historic Center of the City of Évora
Year of inscription
R: 1986
Inscription criteria
R: Criterion II (best example of city of the Portuguese golden age, after the
earthquake of 1755) and Criterion IV (only the urban landscape of Évora permits
nowadays to understand the influence of the Portuguese architecture in Brazil, in
places like Salvador da Bahia (inscription in 1985 in the list of world heritage)
Land area and location of the property
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Province. Alentejo
District: Évora
N38 34 23.016 W7 54 28.008
5. Is there a sustainable development policy at the city level? If yes, what are its broad
lines? (maximum 250 words)
The Sustainable energy plan of Évora comes from the acceptance of the
municipality of the compromise launched by the European Commission to the
commitment to achieve the objective of the European Union concerning the
reduction of the emission of gases with greenhouse effect.
This plan was made in circumstances of big financial difficulties and growth of costs
of energy which reinforces the importance and need of the adoption of measures to
turn more efficient the energetic consumption.
In this scenario, this plan is more comprehensive because it includes actions aimed
at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, but also actions that, not affecting
3. these emissions, optimize the financial aspects of the acquisition and use of energy,
allowing the release of resources for other areas. Included are sections of buildings,
public lighting, transport and waste, distinguishing the actions destined for the
population of the county from those exclusively dedicated to municipal heritage.
Despite the reflection made on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and
energy consumptions, the object of this plan was not the study of environmental
and economic value associated with its implementation.
Project summary (maximum 100 words):
The Public Use Planning approached, sponsored by UNESCO and the PUP Global
Heritage Consortium, co-creates a long-term mentoring relationship with a heritage
site to help local stakeholders plan for and implement their own public use or
tourism management strategy. It differs from conventional consultant-written
management plan approaches by supporting the stakeholder community in
developing its capacity to plan for and implement without paternalism or outsiders
doing what the local heritage city could do for itself. Thus the approach focuses on
organizational learning that avoids many of the conventional implementation
barriers promoted by the standard technocratic, top-down approach.
1. To which of the following sub-themes is the project related?
R: Economy and tourism, Other
Considered to be the most appropriate sub-theme, since the recipients that the
application of this methodology aims to achieve are the visitors, meaning the one
who visits, which naturally includes the inhabitants and outsiders.
2. Location of the project in relation to the Property inscribed and to the city (where
applicable)
R: The Historical center of Évora and surrounding territory.
3. The challenges of the project [maximum 250 words per question]
a. Which urban problem(s) does the proposed project address?
Neither the Municipality of Évora nor the city in general has a plan to manage its
public use attractions and resources. Even more, over a dozen different institutions
ranging from government, NGOs, private sector, and the Church manage its
attractions, making an integrated coordination exceptionally difficult to achieve.
Given these dispersed responsibilities, the Municipality came to realize that only a
participatory, consensus-based approach could offer any hope to unite the different
interests into one coherent approach, but to present Evora has lacked this social
process. Adding to this challenge, Evora and Portugal in general is currently
operating in an extremely difficult financial time where, for example, a new law
prohibits the creation of any new budget line items. Thus, resources from all sectors
have become ever more critical to public use management than any moment in the
past. Since tourism is a business, this means that to collaborate with the private
sector and indeed earn dividends in this sector, many of the non-profit attraction
managers must adopt a business mentality in order to maintain their properties. It
became clear then given this new environment and the increasing role of
stakeholder communities in general in the management of urban heritage, that the
Municipality of Evora had to find a new approach that avoided the conventional top-
down, government-funded approach that in recent history has produced over time
diminishing results. To our good fortune, UNESCO offered a program that
represented a new path forward.
b. What are the objectives of the projects (quantitative and/or qualitative)?
The objectives are the following:
4. By way of a long-term mentoring relationship with the Public Use Planning Program,
the Municipality of Évora aims to develop its capacity to facilitate collective
decision-making about public use management throughout the city and
surroundings. Thus on one hand, the Evora tourism community should develop a
public use planning process with improved coordination and trust among its
members which will be continually and participatively updated over time (rather than
just end up on a shelf and never be updated) while on the other hand improving the
public use infrastructure and services that increase the visitor experience and
conserve heritage attractions of our city. In other words, we seek objectives on four
different levels: 1) produce a technically superior participatory public use plan (plan,
tool development), 2) develop planning and implementation skills for the staff of the
Municipality (staff development), 3) develop organizational learning and adaptive
culture within the Municipality (organizational development), and 4) cultivate a
stakeholder community that can collective make decisions and mobilize resources
to conserve heritage and improve the visitor experience in the Historic City of Evora
(community development).
c. Operational strategy to address the problem(s)
The PUP Global Heritage Consortium’s Public Use Planning Approach builds a
cooperative relationship with the site based on trust rather than a short-term
relationship based on money and paternalism. To do this, the site develops a first
draft public use plan in the first 8–12 months by way of 11 basic modules, modified
according to the situation. Immediately thereafter, PUP accompanies the site in
implementing the site. During this three-year process, PUP introduces new public
use planning innovations such as participatory interpretive frameworks and Limits
of Acceptable Change monitoring (Objective 1). Because it works with stakeholders,
especially those of the Municipality, it helps staffs develop facilitation and
democratic skills necessary for consensus-based participatory planning (Objective
2). Over time, other elements within the Municipality become involved and change
some policies and bring down organizational culture barriers to participatory
planning. Similarly a later module involves adaptive or organizational learning skills
which should be applied more widely than just public use. In the case of Evora,
municipal representatives from a variety of areas already participate in the process
(Objective 3). Over three years of community-wide participatory planning, the
stakeholder community develops greater cohesion, trust, and cooperative systems
for managing public use in Evora (Objective 4). Thus, the process both develops a
technically respectable public use planning process as well as a social decision-
making process. The entire approach is based upon the premise that Evora makes
the decisions, operates at its own pace, and without the fear that the project will end
when a particular financing has ended.
d. In what way is the project relevant in relation to the problem?
Heritage sites, cities in particular, both enjoy and suffer from increasingly diverse
stakeholder communities with increasing numbers of value demands at the same
time that government heritage budgets have fallen precipitously across Europe and
beyond. Thus the days of unilateral decision making by a single management entity
have just about come to an end. If heritage cities are to survive this transition, they
must both embrace the tourism industry and its ways of operating and also share
power with its stakeholder community mediated by a participatory consensus-based
decision-making process. If cities do not go in this direction, they will likely suffer a
gradual or perhaps not so gradual decline in both the quality of their tourism
services as well as the conservation of heritage resources. We are extremely
fortunate then that UNESCO appeared with the PUP Program and with the PUP
Global Heritage Consortium that has continued with the program after the
finalization of the UNESCO project to help Evora through this transition. We realize
5. we can no longer depend on central government funding to keep us going, now we
must develop our own locally sourced resources and community power to get the
management job done. We hope our example may be of use now to other heritage
cities and even more so in two years when we are fully into the community-based
implementation of our public use plan.
4. Implementation of the project: (Who, when, how, financing)
a. Who is driving the project?
The Municipality of Évora in collaboration with representatives from the PUP Global
Heritage Consortium
b. Who is implementing the project?
Câmara Municipal de Évora
Direção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo
Universidade de Évora
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida
Arquidiocese de Évora
Turismo do Alentejo
Associação Comercial
Associação de Diretores de Hotéis
AGIA – Associação de Guias Interpretes
AHRESP – Associação de Hotéis Restaurantes e Similares de Portugal
APECATE – Associação Portuguesa de Empresas de Animação Turística
Coleção B – Associação Cultural
CENDREV – Centro Dramático de Évora
Pé de Xumbo – Associação Cultural
Eborae Mvsica – Conservatório de Música
Associação Do Imaginário – Associação Cultural
PUP Global Heritage Consortium
UNESCO was a critical partner in launching the project but since the project ended
in December, the above organizations have continued on.
c. What is the role of the citizens in the project? (maximum 250 words)
In the past, a central management agency tended to “own” heritage resources and
make most of the management decisions. Although Evora has always been a multi-
stakeholder environment, the Municipality of Evora no longer has the budgetary
power to make unilateral decisions. Thus the Municipality must redefine its role
more as a facilitator and coordinator than a single power. This means that power
must necessarily be strategically redistributed among stakeholders, not only
allowing citizens from other sectors to participate but practically demand it. Without
the formation of some kind of consensus, stagnation and gridlock often result
whether a single family or an entire national government. Evora is no exception.
So the Public Use Planning process calls for a series of public and transparent
workshops to make all the major decisions necessary to formulate a public use plan.
Each module has a different theme and thus a slightly different composition of
invitees, thus ensuring even a wider participation than inviting the same citizens
over and over again to the different workshops as often happens in more
conventional planning practices that do not realize that people have different
interests which can be met with a sub-set of the themes, allowing a greater number
of participants to meet their needs.
d. Present the financial framework of the project.
The project began with funds from Turismo de Portugal (national tourism promotion
agency) via UNESCO in 2011–12. With the conclusion of this project, the technical
6. assistance component passes from UNESCO to the PUP Global Heritage
Consortium which is committed to work with the Municipality of Evora to find bridge
funding without interrupting the mentoring process. At the same time the local
planning logistics depends on contributions from stakeholders, especially the
support of the Municipality. This lack of funding, although difficult, presents new
opportunities to strengthen relationships between the Consortium and Evora and
between stakeholders within Evora.
5. What is the link between the sustainable development project and heritage
management in your city? (maximum 300 words]
Heritage management of course requires contributions from a variety of fields such
as conservation, research, education, restoration, and especially tourism and public
use. We say “especially” because it is the visitation that often drives justification to
conserve heritage, it is the visitation that often provides the funds to conserve
heritage, and it is the visitation that helps to define the interpretive meanings
ascribed to resources that convert those resources into heritage and that
occasionally heritage into world heritage. The Public Use Planning Approach
addresses most of these aspects in different degrees. It values heritage resources in
the marketplace and induces visitors to participate in the heritage conservation. It
helps heritage managers adopt more business-friendly attitudes, skills, and
alliances so that heritage can earn a greater share of its conservation resources. It
facilitates an interpretive framework in order to form a consensus set of heritage
meanings among diverse community members.
Nevertheless a superficial inspection of PUP would reveal only elements of tourism
development without realizing that deeper down PUP is about helping sites like
Evora improve their management overall, using public use as a convenient and
popular starting point to investigate participatory and democratic issues relevant to
all walks of management, especially heritage management. In this sense, its longest
lasting result, its most sustainable result, is helping people and organizations
organize and make decisions on their own without an overwhelming need to find
outsiders to do for them.
6. Explain how the project ties in an innovative step of sustainable development within
your city. (maximum 300 words)
Given that the conventional means of delivering a short-term development project is
for funders or development organizations to either find funding to do their work or
have the beneficiaries contract a consultant for example to write a management plan
for the site. This approach is riddled with problems, such as being too short-term for
learning to occur, too rigid for different experimental trials, too top-down to meet felt
needs, and any time someone else gives away or does for another, critical learning
opportunities are lost and the project runs the risk of engendering among the
“beneficiaries” the belief that they are not good enough, educated enough, or
knowledgeable enough to do for themselves, and thus a dependency based on
paternalism erupts.
The Public Use Planning Approach has arisen from a desire to counter this
approach that produces such many bad development projects. The heart of its
innovation emanates from a different kind of relationship, one that is balanced,
based on trust, and driven by the beneficiary rather than the consultants. At any
moment, the site can stop. At every moment, the outside facilitators must behave in
complete accordance with the principles that they espouse, and they work with the
site to create a sort of safe space to experiment with new forms of managing that
previously they could never do on their on because they did not have the necessary
support or technical counseling.
7. With patience, this approach should yield numerous small victories on the path to
increased capacity to mobilize community resources in order to manage resources
without the dependency on exterior funding, which has so often been the norm
during times of abundance, times that appear to have ended.
7. Explain how the other cities that are members of the OWHC will be able to benefit from
the lessons learned from this project. (maximum 300 words)
Previous answers have established that the problems facing Evora are in no way
unique to this context. All across Europe heritage funding has been drying up. All
across the world increasingly diverse constituencies demand ever more benefits
from urban heritage. The need for a much more robust stakeholder participation is
on the rise and urban cities, municipalities in particular, can play the key role of
facilitator to mobilize its many small, local communities and stakeholder groups
through a persistent dialogue and share of the decision-making pie. In effect, they
can become more self-sufficient, a quality ever more important in a world of
dwindling public resources. In the case of Evora, we can see the formation of a
stakeholder advisory body even decision-making body can complement quite
effectively the normal municipal duties. This of course requires increased
transparency, patience, and investment, more than municipal leaders are likely
accustomed. But by not engaging their constituencies, they will also encounter
grave situations for which they also are likely not accustomed.
8. Evaluation of the project
a. What are the expected results of the project? / What are the resulted observed of the
project? (maximum 250 words]
The expected results are:
To build the capacity of site management to plan for and implement
public use strategies that protect World Heritage and related sites. (example
indicator: plan is implemented for at least two years continuously)
To identify and avoid through its methodological design barriers to
plan implementation (example indicator: successful implementation of strategies
that avoid known barriers such as automatic initiation of plan implementation
without waiting for government approval);
The introduction of a new paradigm in site planning: The practice of
working together (example indicator: where the municipality can convoke and run
participatory meetings without the intervention of external facilitators);
Implementation focuses on the site’s long-term learning about how to
create and implement a strategic plan, and not focus exclusively on producing a
finely polished, final document that ends up on a shelf – unimplemented (example
indicator: adoption of organizational learning tools such as After Action Reviews);
Obtain participation of those interested in the site (example indicator:
percentage of stakeholder groups that participated for the first time during the
public use planning process versus before it had begun);
Overall, develop a new way of seeing and managing, one that is
based on learning (example indicator: qualitative conversation with stakeholders
about the degree to which they agree with this objective’s completion).
Most of those objectives do not carry with them predefined indicators as their
progress can be measured in different forms from different perspectives. As the
process is participatory so is the evaluation, qualitative and diverse.
b. What are the main beneficiaries of the project (maximum 250 words)
The application of the Public Use Plan should generate reflections about the day-to-
day lives of the inhabitants of Evora and even those throughout the country. They
8. should as well enjoy a reduction in the negative impacts of tourism through an
increased access to cultural heritage and increased public recognition of the
heritage importance of the city. Since the project is so multi-sectoral from the
outset, benefits should accrue the tourism industry, the Church, the Municipality,
and by example other heritage cities in Portugal.
c. What are the major impacts of the project on the societal, economic and environmental
levels? (maximum 300 mots)
The effects should be observed both from the standpoint of different service
providers and visitors themselves. In any case, we consider the following important
aspects:
The construction and development of mechanisms of identity and cohesion
of the population of Évora and particularly strategic communities;
The promotion of habits of cultural appreciation in its broadest sense and in
particular with regard to cultural heritage;
The increase in length of stay from the current three days;
The control of visitor flow using management mechanisms to redirect flows
throughout the day, year, etc.
Promotion of notions of respect for the rules of conservation of cultural
heritage;
Promotion of site among local population;
Local earnings;
To diversify visitors experiences;
Overall though, since Public Use Planning has worked largely in natural sites and
cultural landscapes, success in Evora opens up a whole new opportunity for
heritage cities around the world. It is in Evora that UNESCO and the PUP Global
Heritage Consortium have been adapting the tools and the readings to include the
realities of urban life as well as realities in other contexts. If in fact, social cohesion
can be increased in Evora that would results in improved heritage management,
greater self-sufficiency, and greater mobilization of local resources not just in this
one city but in others around the world. See www.pupconsortium.net for more
information.