{"id":21876,"date":"2022-01-17T07:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/?p=21876"},"modified":"2022-02-28T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:44:00","slug":"links-with-edinburgh-world-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/uncategorized-lt\/links-with-edinburgh-world-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Links with Edinburgh World Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Edinburgh-Vilnius connection through heritage-led revitalisation already has a long history. In 1995 \u2013 1996, shortly after the inscription of Vilnius on the World Heritage list, a group of international professionals supported the development of Vilnius Old Town Revitalisation Strategy. Amongst them were representatives of the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust \u2013 one of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewht.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edinburgh World Heritage\u2019s&nbsp;<\/a>predecessors. Since then Vilnius has developed solid foundations for heritage-led urban revitalisation using public-private partnerships. The model has gradually developed, attracting private investment into dilapidated buildings and public spaces of the Old Town. It is quite easy to draw similarities with Edinburgh, from the 1970s onwards. OTRA\u2019s grant system is quite similar to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewht.org.uk\/looking-after-our-heritage\/conservation-funding-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EWH\u2019s Conservation Funding Programme.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 1999-2000 Kirsteen Thomson (former director of the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust) worked as a consultant for&nbsp;<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/unesco_tech_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UNESCO\/WHC \u2013 UN\/UNDP Technical Assistance programme<\/a>&nbsp;in Vilnius. Mrs. Thomson helped to prepare the Investors\u2019 Guidelines and Conservation Guidelines for Vilnius&nbsp;&nbsp;Old Town Renewal Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 13-16th May 2015, Krzysztof Chuchra (International Programme Project Manager) and Fiona Rankin (World Heritage Site Project Manager) from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewht.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EWH<\/a>&nbsp;attended the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewht.org.uk\/what-we-do\/REDIAPRO-Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">REDIAPRO partnership meeting in Vilnius<\/a>&nbsp;and have met with Gediminas Rutkauskas, the director of Vilnius Old Town Renewal Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh-Vilnius connection through heritage-led revitalisation already has a long history. In 1995 \u2013 1996, shortly after the inscription of Vilnius on the World Heritage list, a group of international professionals supported the development of Vilnius Old Town Revitalisation Strategy. Amongst them were representatives of the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust \u2013 one of&nbsp;Edinburgh World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21900,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21876\/revisions\/21900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}