COST Action CA18110 Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation STSM Report title: Knowledge base for case studies Göreme: Cappadocia (TR)

The STSM about Cost Action Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation has the object to contribute to the following objectives: 1.Mapping different UBH re-use and broader heritage-led regeneration in Göreme , and Cappadocia area, and improving the overall comprehension of success factors in terms of business and management, financing mechanisms, stakeholders' involvement, governance mechanisms, procurement, technical needs, and environmental, social and economic impacts. 2.Opening the network to partnerships with local management frameworks, as well as interacting with different local stakeholders, both public and private, to reach consensus on which values should be protected and carried on to future generations and determine the attributes that carry these values 3.Pioneering socially and environmentally innovative solutions, by stimulating, developing and supporting processes of local community co-evolution and co-creation. From 1st to 14th December 2019 I was involved in Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) in Göreme , Cappadocia Region. The hosting Institution was Middle East Technical University (Prof. Muge Akkar Ercan) in Ankara, Turkey. The experience was based on : oDeep interviews to most representative stakeholders in order to collect data and information for the Objectives n. 1 and n.3 oSecond Living Lab Stakeholder meeting in order to contribute to the achievements of Objectives n. 2 oOn Field analysis in order to collect manly data and information for the Objectives n. 1 and n.3