Topic: Local economic development, cultural heritage, creative industries.

Implementation period: December 2024 — December 2027

Client: European Union

Partners: Center for Urban History

More details: REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage — a large-scale three-year project to actualize local multicultural heritage in Rivne, Medzhybizh and Uman. The project strengthens the role of heritage as a shared asset for local economic development, introduces more historically sensitive approaches to working with the past, promotes critical thinking, and helps overcome discrimination.

Project Components:

• educational program and artistic intervention around the topic of multicultural heritage of cities;

• preservation, digitization, and creation of digital collections of historical sources (visual and oral history) to promote a dialogue on archiving as a cultural practice and common heritage; 

• development and piloting new approaches to managing multicultural heritage in Rivne, Medzhybizh and Uman;

• training program and creation of an expert network to develop the competencies of specialists in the field of heritage and cultural management;

• granting program to support development initiatives in communities working with the multicultural past.

Role of the PPV Agency: Organization of a training program to develop competencies for representatives of the three communities, supporting participants in creating their own projects, creating an expert network for sharing experiences, as well as piloting two cases:

• urban revitalization of the Yevreyka Park in Rivne;

• strengthening the tourist potential of Uman.

REHERIT 2.0 is the continuation of the ReHERIT project, which we implemented together with partners from 2018 to 2021. Project website, facebook page.

Project news on the PPV Economic Development Agency website.

"REHERIT 2.0: Common Responsibility for Shared Heritage" is implemented by the Center for Urban History and the Centre for Regional Development of the PPV Economic Development Agency. The project is funded by the European Union.

This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the partners of the "REHERIT 2.0" project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.