A transnational workshop held at Humboldt University in Berlin on the 12th of March 2013 showed the huge variety of different management models of fortresses carried out by the project partners.

The different management approaches are needed due to the life cycle phase of a monument – for instance: reconstruction, development or maintenance. The discussion led to a general idea that management can be either used as a method and tool for finding the proper operation model or as a process to integrate the monument to an existing structure.

Solving financing problem is, of all aspects, the most urgent task. Therefore the strategy of monument capitalising is a process to activate resources for better monument economy. In reference to life cycle assessment the proper management model shall integrate also economical cycles. The most crucial part of being effective is having the right utilisation concept with conomical effects and benefits. At the Forte Cultura network, we are doing pioneering work in this field and we foresee developing a corresponding memorandum on European level.