Nicosia’s HUB-IN Action Plan
Nicosia’s HUB-IN is developed within the Walled City, the old city centre surrounded by Venetian Walls dating from 1567. The UN-controlled Buffer Zone – also called the Green Line – dividing Nicosia from East to West since 1974, runs through the city’s historic and cultural heart, with destructive effects.
The Action Plan aims to be an operational and useful instrument to promote and scale up the cultural and creative industries community and local businesses supported in the historical and cultural past of the walled city, whilst contributing to the connection and well-being of the community and the enhancement of the tourism offer and the visitor’s experience. Nicosia’s HUB of Innovation will be a network of connected places and people who embody and manifest the vision of Nicosia becoming a place to safeguard, transit and promote the historic memory of Cyprus and at the same time be the powerhouse of culture and innovation-led transformations.
The Nicosia Actions
1. Setting the Digital Stage
Expected results:
- Enhancement of CCIs economic activity
- Creation of a network
- Create conditions for matchmaking
2. Heritage Walks and their Twins
Expected results:
- Revitalise the historic urban area (HUA)
- Preserve and reinforce the memory of the HUA
- Increased visits and visibility of the area making the HUA heritage and culture known to visitors and tourists
- Promote soft mobility/active travel
- Develop a sense of pride and ownership among local residents
3. Activations of the Hub: Interacting and Engaging
Expected results:
- Promote the creative and cultural industries that already exist in the HUA
- Stimulate and encourage the development of new collaborations, new products & services
- Raise awareness on the Nicosia HUB through the community itself.
4. Creation of a CCI startup
Expected results:
- Create more cultural and creative industries
- Bring more people to live, work and visit in the HUA
- Provide for new perspectives and opportunities for young people
- Provide more opportunities for employment in the centre
- Increase the liveability of the area.
