ABSTRACT: One of the primary goals in FRAME project’s WP3 (Critical and Strategic Raw Materials Map of Europe), in collaboration with other work packages of FRAME and other GeoERA projects, is to produce and present the mineralisation and potential areas for CRM in Euro...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, innovation became a key element to promote economic growth. Cities started playing a significant role in promoting it quickly becoming torn between authentic urban regeneration processes and gentrification. We argue that am...

In 2017 the project ROCK (“Regeneration and Optimization of Cultural Heritage in Creative and Knowledge Cities”) kicked-off in a number of European cities seeking to develop innovative solutions to use cultural heritage as a driver for urban regeneration. The project, f...

This first step, creating a first urban diagnosis of the project ROCK, “Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural Heritage in Creative and Knowledge cities” is a challenging task for its population and urban functions diversity, the presence of old and new economic prof...

The Interpretative Centre for Lisbon’s eastern parishes of Marvila and Beato is set to open at Marvila’s Municipal Library near the conclusion of the city’s H2020 ROCK Project.1 The two partners involved in the venture are Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (CML), Lisbon’s muni...

Marvila and Beato are two parishes in the eastern part of Lisbon where the ROCK project identified the intervention area for cultural heritage-led initiatives of urban regeneration. If historical heritage can be a driver of regeneration, this research note aims to contr...

This Memorandum is a policy-oriented research document conducted by the ICS-ULisboa team of the Horizon 2020 project ROCK. It seeks to organise some of the most up-to-date knowledge around Urban Centers and highlight important discussion topics, requiring further attent...