HydriCh Hydroelectric landscapes and innovative technologies for the Cultural Heritage and touristic development

HydriCH develops an innovative, collaborative and circular network for regeneration and enhancement of the hydroelectricity heritage to provide new economic opportunities to the territories in which this heritage belongs. Implementing a repertoire of successful heritage-led regeneration initiatives, HydriCH develops new fruition solutions that meet the specific needs of the hydroelectricity heritage and its replicability in other contexts through the international partners' network. HydriCH focuses on hydroelectricity heritage as an extraordinary occasion to demonstrate how Cultural Heritage can be a unique and powerful engine of regeneration, sustainable development and economic growth for the whole territory. HydriCH intends to promote cultural heritage innovation through the design of a methodology aimed at providing both the enhancement of the industrial heritage connected to the hydroelectric energy production and the creation of new opportunities for tourism development in sites which are nowadays affected by a phenomenon of demographic retreat and by a gradual tourist flows reduction on which the abandonment of the territories and the ageing of the population insert themselves. This active engineering and architectural heritage could implement the didactic-cultural offer of these sites and therefore the range of the economic resources of the investigated territories, promoting the exploitation of this heritage through the construction of an ICT platform that would become the means through which develop an innovative, cultural and sustainable tourism in those territories