Cooperation
At HERIT4AGES, we believe that preserving our cultural heritage requires collective effort. As a proud European initiative, we collaborate with a network of projects and organizations dedicated to safeguarding and enhancing historical sites.
This page highlights our partnerships and joint ventures, showcasing how we work together to develop innovative, sustainable solutions for cultural heritage conservation. By combining expertise and resources, we aim to create resilient, energy-efficient, and inclusive environments that honor our shared history.
We invite you to explore these collaborations and see how, through cooperation, we are building a future that respects and preserves our past.
HeriTACE
HeriTACE is a collaborative initiative aimed at transforming heritage townhouse buildings into energy-efficient assets while preserving their historical integrity. Their transdisciplinary team is dedicated to developing innovative solutions for deep renovations of heritage townhouses. Through holistic assessments, optimal design approaches, durable insulation solutions, smart HVAC concepts, and integrated energy supply solutions, HeriTACE ensures a sustainable future for historical neighbourhoods
FuturHist
FuturHist researches and tests energy-efficient retrofit interventions tailored to historic building typologies. Implemented in real-life cases in Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, the project focuses on innovative solutions like bio-based materials, internal insulation, and HVAC integration. By exploring barriers in the retrofitting planning process and analyzing policy frameworks, FuturHist aims to standardize and simplify energy retrofits. The project develops tailored solution packages and a decision-support toolkit to enhance energy efficiency, durability, and conservation compatibility in historic buildings.
INHERIT
INHERIT is an EU-co-funded project that addresses the challenges concerning the preservation, restoration, and management of cultural heritage buildings. Its goal is to foster their environmental and social sustainability while preserving their cultural heritage value. INHERIT uses an integrated methodology based on social, scientific, and technological processes, including 11 ICT-based services that will be demonstrated in 8 cultural heritage sites across Europe.
CALECHE
The CALECHE project presents innovative solutions in various fields, including approaches that aesthetically integrate photovoltaics into buildings and advancements in insulation materials specifically designed to meet the essential needs of historic buildings regarding humidity regulation. It also promotes resource circularity and reduces the overall carbon footprint. CALECHE is developing a dedicated method as a decision tool to guide and encourage more circularity and help reduce the overall carbon footprint, aligning renovations with sustainable practices.
REHOUSE
The REHOUSE project aims to increase the scope and productivity of the renovation process, ultimately improving the comfort and satisfaction of building inhabitants and users. Additionally, the project focuses on promoting the use of integrated solutions for decentralized renewable energy generation. Over the course of four years, REHOUSE will develop eight innovative and comprehensive solutions designed to ensure efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable renovation processes.
POCITYF
The POCITYF project will deliver a set of positive energy blocks in the lighthouse cities of Alkmaar (Netherlands) and Évora (Portugal), and their fellow cities Hvidovre (Denmark), Ioannina (Greece), Ujpest (Hungary), Bari (Italy), Celje (Slovenia), and Granada (Spain). These blocks refer to a limited and socially well-embedded geographic area where the average local renewable generation exceeds its consumption. POCITYF aims to transform these cities’ mixed-urban environments, with a strong emphasis on cultural and historical protected areas, into healthier, more accessible, reliable and competitive spaces for their citizens.
BUILT4PEOPLE
BUILT4PEOPLE is a co-programmed partnership in Horizon Europe’s Cluster 5 (Climate, Energy and Mobility). It unites the European Commission, ECTP, and WorldGBC Europe to co-programme EU research and innovation funding for the built environment. They ensure it is invested in projects which will accelerate innovations towards a sustainable, people-centric transformation of Europe’s built environment sector.
NEBULA
NEBULA, an EU-funded project under the Built4People initiative, aims to establish a network of Innovation Clusters across Europe. These clusters will accelerate sustainable solutions in the built environment by connecting innovators and fostering collaboration. NEBULA addresses key challenges in creating a more sustainable, people-centric built environment, blending technological and social innovations.