Vas County, Hungary: LAP – Refurbishing heritage & historical buildings

In January 2022, the Hungarian partners – Pannon Business Network Association and Vas County Government Office – started the prepation of the implementation of the Local Action Plan. Within the first action, a mobile application will be developed by the end of the year in cooperation with CCI actors and students. The aim of the action is to develop a mobile application which focuses on how a heritage site can be rethought in Vas County.

Several brainstorming meetings took place in the past months with their main stakeholder: iASK – Institut of Advanced Studies Kőszeg. The mission of iASK is to bring together a critical mass of intellectually open, courageous and knowledge-sharing practitioners. They renovated long-abandoned, historical buildings, in which nowdays educational activities, lectures, exhibitions are held and these have been home to libraries, conferences, workshops.

iASK is:

• a transdisciplinary research centre whose activities span the world of science from quantum physics to music and the arts;
• a venue for conferences, seminars, workshops and other for each year, mostly open to the general public, in person and online;
• a home to relevant and cutting-edge research through the interaction between senior and early-career researchers;
• a provider of policy recommendations for a wide range of public stakeholders;
• active in addressing present European historical, social and political issues with special attention to Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Balkans.

PBN is cooperating with artists and researchers in creating the content and designing the application. The structure and content of the application has already been finalized, now they are planning its graphic design and programming the application.

There will be augmented reality elements in some section of the application. Realistic display is done using augmented reality so the user can feel as if the content is in reality.

As part of Action I, PBN held 2 demonstration and training workshops for students in their digital innovation hub – am-LAB. The aim of these workshops is to equip young people with key skills, competences and values in order to succeed in the labour market and entrepreneurial world.

Within the second action, the Hungarian partners will hold a promotional day at the location of the implementation of the application in October 2022.