Damaged and neglected historical buildings, not renovated for years are a common feature of the Central-European region. Because of the lack of public funding, and the interest of private investors knowledge about alternative ways of financing renovation of historical buildings, the efforts should be made in a direction to the interdisciplinary search of the improvements in skills and capacities of the public partners. According to the Restaura CE 339, Interreg project, the main objective is to raise professional competences and managerial capacities in revitalisation and public private partnership (PPP) schemes. That is why the purpose of this paper is to show how to achieve this goal by knowledge transfer, so public authorities become initiators of future PPP projects.